Count. Natural son of Catherine the Great and Grigori Orlov, secretly born in the Winter Aalace at St. Petersburgh and secretly raised at an estate in Bobriki until 2 April 1781 when Catherine wrote him a letter acknowledging her maternity. He was made a Count of the Russian Empire by his half-brother Czar Paul III on the fifth day of his reign and later promoted to General-Major. He married Baroness Anna Dorothea von Ungern-Sternberg. Died at his estate at Bogoroditsk near Tula and was buried in the family crypt at Bobriki, thirty meters away. Was disinterred as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution and dumped in a common pit with his other relations buried there.
Count. Natural son of Catherine the Great and Grigori Orlov, secretly born in the Winter Aalace at St. Petersburgh and secretly raised at an estate in Bobriki until 2 April 1781 when Catherine wrote him a letter acknowledging her maternity. He was made a Count of the Russian Empire by his half-brother Czar Paul III on the fifth day of his reign and later promoted to General-Major. He married Baroness Anna Dorothea von Ungern-Sternberg. Died at his estate at Bogoroditsk near Tula and was buried in the family crypt at Bobriki, thirty meters away. Was disinterred as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution and dumped in a common pit with his other relations buried there.
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