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About Nikolay Orlov
Prince Nikolay Alekseyevich Orlov was a Russian nobleman, soldier, social reformer, diplomat, and writer. He started his career as an officer in the Russian army, and later served variously as the Russian ambassador to Belgium, Great Britain, France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Germany. He was primarily responsible for the end of corporal punishment under Russian law.
Everything about Nikolay Orlov →- Occupation
- diplomat, military officer, writer, politician
- Position held
- ambassador of the Russian Empire in France, ambassador of the Russian Federation to Belgium, Ambassador of the Russian Empire in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- May 9, 1827, April 27, 1827
- Died
- March 17, 1885