Vasily Petrovich Orlov (russian: Орло́в, Васи́лий Петро́вич), was a Russian

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of Cavalry. Hero of

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of (1768–1774) and (1787–1792). Ataman of the Don Cossacks, received orders to command the

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in January 1801 from Emperor

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. His wife Daria Fedorovna, was a daughter of Ataman

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and son of Vasily Petrovich

Vasily Orlov-Denisov Count Vasily Vasilyevich Orlov-Denisov (8 September 1775 – 24 January 1843) was a Cossack Russian general. He was the son of Vasily Petrovich Orlov, Ataman of the Don Cossacks, and grandson (on his mother's side) of the first Earl of the Cossa ...

, a Don Cossacks

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in honour of his grandfather

added his surname to his own, becoming count Orlov-Denisov on 26 April 1801.

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