Orlov-Denisov, Fedor Vasilyevich

Born in the family of Count Vasily Vasilyevich Orlov-Denisov , known for his exploits during the war of 1812 , and Maria (1784-1829), daughter of Count A. I. Vasilyev , Russia's first finance minister. Baptist G. R. Derzhavin , Count A. I. Vasilyev , Princess E. A. Dolgorkuova and Princess E. S. Urusova. Service began Junker in the Life Guards Cossack regiment and August 30, 1821 was promoted to cornets.

In 1828 he took part in the war with the Turks and especially distinguished himself in battles: in the village of Gaberti, for which he was awarded the Order of St.. Anna of the 3rd degree with a bow, at Mount Kurtina, and in cavalry affairs near the village of Haji-Alan-Likh. Immediately after this war ended, Orlov-Denisov was sent to the border of the Podolsk and Kherson gubernias , where he spent more than a month in the maintenance of the cordon line, to save the region from the plague, after which until mid-February 1830 he occupied the cordons along the Dniester River.

Portrait from " wind farm "
(bottom row, right)

In 1831, he took part in the suppression of the Polish uprising , and especially distinguished himself in fights at the villages of Pritetitsy, Old Yatsak, at Ostrolenka and others. Then on June 5, he and two squadrons of the Life-Guards of the Cossack regiment attacked the vanguard of Helgud's detachment, defeated him and took many prisoners, and on July 16 with his squadron attacked a significant rebel detachment, defeated him and captured two head officers, 30 senior officers and about 500 people of lower ranks. For the differences shown in these cases, he was promoted to the captain and awarded the Order of St.. Stanislav 3rd degree.

At the end of the Polish campaign, Count Orlov-Denisov returned to St. Petersburg . Appointed aide-de-camp appointed on April 23, 1834, he was promoted to colonel on June 25, 1837, and with production on April 7, 1846 to major general, appointed to the retinue of His Imperial Majesty, on January 1, 1847, was awarded the Order of St. Georgy 4th degree for 25 years of service in the officer ranks (No. 7535 on the list of Grigorovich - Stepanov).

In 1849, Count Orlov-Denisov was appointed acting head of the Donskoi army headquarters , leaving him in the retinue, and at the end of the same 1848 - chairman of the commissions for disengaging the lands of the Don forces and building a cathedral church in Novocherkassk and the Olkhinsky dam, with the provision to him, at the same time, of the presence and management of the headquarters of military horse factories; soon he was approved in the rank of vice-president of the Novocherkassk Prison Committee. In 1851, he retired due to illness, but already on June 18, 1853, he was appointed to correct the post of marching ataman of the Cossack regiments, which consisted of troops of the 3rd, 4th and 5th infantry corps, and the following year (April 11) appointed adjutant general.

Since the beginning of the Crimean campaign, Count Orlov-Denisov took an active part in it, as a marching chieftain of the Cossack regiments of the Southern Army, which he led in all major affairs, including battles on the Black and Fedyukhiny heights. Upon the transfer of the Russian troops from the southern side of Sevastopol to the North, Count Orlov-Denisov was dismissed from the post of ataman of the Southern Army and returned to St. Petersburg. For the differences shown at Sevastopol, he was granted the Order of St. Anna 1 st degree with the Imperial crown and swords.

Produced on August 26, 1856 to lieutenant-general, Count Orlov-Denisov did not occupy any posts in the last years of his life, fulfilling only the duties of adjutant-general; died from chronic inflammation of the stomach in Nice on April 3, 1865.

His wife (from 1836) was countess Elizaveta Nikitina (1817–1898), the maid of honor of the court (from 09/14/1832), the only daughter of Count Alexei Petrovich Nikitin and the heiress of Kolomyagi’s estate. Her Petersburg home on Liteiny pr., 22/16 was considered one of the most "bonton" in the capital. Being one of the lioness of the great world, in January 1849, together with Princess Z. I. Yusupova and Princess E. N. Urusova, she got into “history”, stirring up high society. Having merry at the masquerade, the ladies decided to continue the evening, having supper in the trendy restaurant Dussault. At the same time they raised excessive noise and attracted the attention of the police. The rumor increased the pranks and rumors about some monstrous orgies spread through the city. As a result, Countess Orlova-Denisova was forced to ask Emperor Nicholas I for protection ^[2] . She was fond of literature and art, participated in charitable societies of the Office of Empress Maria Feodorovna and was in the “White Cross” society. Writer G.P. Danilevsky , who was visiting the countess, devoted her verses to her:

She survived her husband for thirty-three years. She died in 1898 and was buried in a family tomb next to her father and husband in the Church of the Annunciation. Married had five children ^[3] :

• Alexandra (1837-1892), married to Lieutenant-General Count Nikolai Pavlovich Grabbe (1832-1896);
• Mary (1838–1913), married to Count Nikolai Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1834–1881), and then after Prince Grigory Sergeevich Golitsyn (1838–07);
• Nikolay (1839-1897), lieutenant general;
• Aleksei (1841-1907) —camera-cadet (in April 1852 he was allowed to take the surname of his maternal grandfather and be called the Count Orlov-Denisov-Nikitin);
• Elena (1843–1898), married to Lieutenant General Mikhail Pavlovich Tuchkov (1832–1890).

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