Kdo je hodil z Grigory Orlov?

Prince Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (Russian: Григорий Григорьевич Орлов; 17 October 1734 – 24 April 1783) was a favourite of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (1772), state and military figure, collector, patron of arts, and General-in-Chief.

He patronised M. V. Lomonosov, D. I. Fonvisin, V. I. Bazhenov and gave them financial support. Honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1765). He collected paintings (including Rembrandt, P. P. Rubens, Titian), sculpture, Chinese, Japanese and Russian porcelain, hunting weapons, etc. (Orlov's collection has been preserved almost completely; it is now in the State Museum-Reserve "Gatchina" of the eponymous city). A large landowner, particularly of the Gatchina manor, where Orlov commissioned the construction of a palace and a landscape garden.

He became a leader of the 1762 coup which overthrew Catherine's husband Peter III of Russia and installed Catherine as empress. For some years he was virtually co-ruler with her, but his repeated infidelities and the enmity of Catherine's other advisers led to his fall from power.

Katarina II. Aleksejevna (rusko Екатери́на II Алексе́евна, Ekaterina II Alekseevna), bolj znana kot Katarina Velika (Екатерина Великая, Ekaterina Velikaja), ruska carica od 28. junija 1762 do smrti, * 2. maj 1729, Stettin, Prusija (danes Szczecin, Poljska), † 17. november (6. november, ruski koledar) 1796, Zimski dvorec, Sankt Petersburg, Ruski imperij