Nikolai Alexejewitsch Orlov
Nikolai Alexejewitsch Orlov ( Russian: Николай Алексеевич Орлов , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Alekseevič Orlov ; born April 27, 1820 , † March 29, 1885 in Fontainebleau ), from the house of the Counts of Orlov , was prince and only son of Alexei Orlowodorov .
Life
First he joined the tsarist army , then, after showing particular bravery in the siege of the Silistra fortress in 1854 , but also losing an eye and an arm, the diplomatic service and became envoy in Brussels in 1860 and briefly in Vienna in 1870 . 1872-80 he was ambassador to Paris , then to Berlin and died on March 29, 1885 in Fontainebleau.
As a military writer, he tried his hand at a Russian-written history of the Prussian War of 1806 ( Saint Petersburg , 1856).
family
Orlow married Katharina (Jekaterina) Nikolajewna born in 1858. Princess Trubetzkaja (1840–1875). Prince Otto von Bismarck , who met the couple in Biarritz in the summer of 1862 and had an affair with the princess, writes that she spoke some German and was an excellent pianist.
literature
- Nikolai Prince Orloff, Bismarck and the Princess Orloff. An idyll in high politics. With unpublished letters from Bismarck and Princess Orloff , Munich 1936
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Alexander Borisovich Richter |
Russian envoy to Belgium 1860–1869 |
Andrei Dmitrievich Bludov |
| Ernest Gustavowitsch Stakelberg |
Russian envoy to Austria-Hungary 1869–1870 |
vacant (1874 Eugeni Petrovich Novikov ) |
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Russian envoy to France 1872–1880 |
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| SURNAME | Orlov, Nikolai Alexejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Орлов, Николай Алексеевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince and only son of Alexei Fyodorowitsch Orlov |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1820 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1885 |
| Place of death | Fontainebleau |