The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-07
TEE RUSSIAN REP
COUNT ORLOFF.

is q daughter ut the Baroness de Kos.
TEE RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVES.
COUNT ORLOFF.
Alexis Fedviovitch Count Orof Aide de camp General
General of Cavalry, Commander of the Military House
hold Of the Emperor snd Member Of the Council Of the
Empire, belongs 70 OF ire most lusrioys families
Of Russia. He barn in the year 1885, and =
quently now II years of age Almost all the members
Of this race have been remarkable for their physical
beauty. Tho first Of whom we find mention
stlelt2 under Peter the Great OF him the following
anecdote 10 Ielated:-
corps Of ancieItly ducal and afelward Czarian he
reoitay body guards existed kind OF pref rans, nj
ard brave commanded by OF the first
ancient families, such snoutk Dolgorouki and Others
Under Peter, this corps embodied Inc spirit OF Old Rus
tis resisted his IefoIms and reyoltsd several times
After the suppression OF Of these revols the nfu
rated Car himself otcated eaecatoner, with in
hand A yourg nan approached 10 take his turn IN
youth and fImness, pushed him aside. -hs undaunted
BOY resumed his place. saying to the CzN: You have
hied ny father, despatch me likewise" Thu. ccol.
ana contempt Of death charmed the executioner.
Who had the laa carried away unframed This youth
wss an 0scif; a'd ONE years aer~sId became an Off
cv in he rev rsiments ~ Guards organized by Pesr.
The grsndsons of this hero helped to raise the grea
caiharins II. to the imperial throne which otherwise
would have been occupied by Peter H., who, if not
wholly idiot, but little removed from it.
Gregory Orlon, the paramour Of CatLsrile, with lis
brother, stirred up instruction among the guards
and at their head proclaimed the Empress; while Alexis
orle, with BaDjatyns snd cher yourg men, murdered
the lawful Gar. AT that moment the grateful and en-
amored Iathaline desired TO share the throne with
Gregory but the opposition Of the boyards prevented it.
The 0rlogs ambitious and aspiring the first to
Inspire Catbarne, German by birth, with national Rus
sian feelings AID hopes. Like Poiemkin, Rumanzo and
many others aferwaId, they pointed continually to thu
destruction OF Turkey the great obect OF Russian Pc
IgY AeNs commanded the then Iew,y formed Russian
squadron, which in 1770 the 5h and 9th of July,
headed by Ephnston, Greg and other Eng ishmep
buried and destroyed The Turkish fleet at Chesme,
nsgnifoan. ha1sor in Asia Minor opposite the Island of
Chios AT the Alexis fosiered in Greecs the
celebrated association of the Hete.ia.
In physical attributes the press mt Count Orlof pre-
sents all the well known characteristics of his HI
strength is immense and his personal appearance ipos
ing The early part of his in the army,
and he took part in almost all the which siynalize
the commencement Of our century. Wounded first
Austerli'z he also seven different times wounde
tie field Of Borodino and afterwards made
aide decamp Of tbs Emperor Alexander l. In 1926 he
general and commanded in that capacity the regi
rent Of Horse Guards which, in December, 1885, first
hurried to suppress the enlede. Count Oro gave to-
kens that day Of boundless courage and devotion and
from that moment dates his intimacy with the Emperor
Nicholas, Of whom he Of the first advisers and
whose personal friend he
1873 he In Turkey the division of horse
chasseurs. In 1929 be named Pen potentiary and
signed st Adranope, with Marshal Debitch and Count
Frederick Pablen the treaty of Adanople. Afte the
peace he remained time at Constantinope Ambas
ssdor Recalled to the companionship Of the Emperor
he accompanied his imperial Majesty in his various
travels.
eDext ind him a ion in Holland and at Lon
don, where the affairs of Belgium arranged. The
I; r..
which avei Constan1cple from the victorious army CT
brahim Pashs, and he signed the treaty Of UnkarS
essi Since 1S45 he has repac Count de Benckendor
deceased, chief of the third fection Of the Pivae
Chsnceery ct the Emperor and of the gendarmere o.
the empire the colcnes Of which, dis ribued all
the governments have less mission Of police properly
called, than a general inspection Of tho a5mnisra
ten Of The country, and also of control the Govern
well the governed This post full of trust gave
to Count orlo free at all hours of the day the
Emperor and the right to speak him of all every
thing.
In the spring Of 1853 he accompanied Nicholas to OIL
and Berlin where the settled the differences
between the Courts of Russia aud Austria FiaHlly
when the Eastern question threatening, in the
ter of the same year. Orlof sent confidential
mission to Vienna, to feel the pulse of Francis Joseph
and his cabinet There he discovered that Baron de Mey
erdorf the Russian diplomat wholly outwited and
kep.in the dark by Count Buol Schaueu4 EN- Baron
brotbern law and that the Austrian Emperor was bend
ing visib'y toward the Western alliance
Itha been remarked and justly tina the two persons
Who enjoyed the largest share the of the Emperor
Ncholas-Count BenckendorT AMI Count Orloa--were
precisely the renowned f., their atty their spirit
fjustice and moderation These functions Coun. OroG
still fuifls with the Emperor Alexander II. We cannot
give better idea Of the sentiments which this sovereign
enertains towards him than by reproducing the
seh of the rescrpt addressed to him the I'D Of
gust last the occasion the anniversary of his 6y
PEARS Of SERVICE
At his last hour, fnal and sacred Interview With
me- my ia her eDjonod to thank you ~ ftiend who
had always been faithful md devoted.
This is the parsonage CHOSEN by the Emperor Alex
represent Russia at the Peace Conferences at
BARON BRUNow.
The second representative of kussa the Peace Con
frenoos II the Baron Brunov many years am
at Ionccn He is very old the i'm peria
court than thirty years Of his life having been
spent In diplomatic employ nents His Excellence lie
German by birth, and his connection with the Russian
Court originally formed at the period of the Con-
gress tf Arx-la Chspsle in 1918.
It alleged Of him that during the Turiah cam paign
cfI827 being in tie chanery Of the Russaa OF
the Prncil aities at Bucharest he committed oue Off
cial peculsons for which he tried and condemned
Fortunately for him Count Orof his way to con-
cude the treaty OF Adanople and OF the Go.
vernon at Bucharest familiar With Turkish
affairs and customs. Brunow hereupon was named "a
eminently 1T person; but the difficulty az regarded him
Law in the tact thai the verdict OF his wa
already confirmed by Nicholas, who was accustomed 10
reject all appeals to his forbearsn,a. OsloG according
w. taking Brunow bis personal re ,ponsbility
found him extremely useful during the Negotiations A.
Adrianople and his return to st. Petersburg recon-
mer dad him TO the Eo the principal worker OF
TIE orous treaty. The past accordingly was whit
,ash 10. Brupow ps;dooed and entered the oioo
matte e vice Of uncommon dploa4tc skin ao,es anj
expert busne man. be became the director Of the per-