Ekaterina Orlova (courtier)

Her Serene Highness

Ekaterina Nikolaevna Orlova
Portrait by Fyodor Rokotov, 1779
BornEkaterina Nikolaevna Zinovieva
30 December 1758
Died27 June 1781 (aged 22)
Lausanne
BuriedAnnunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Noble familyZinoviev
SpouseGrigory Orlov
FatherNikolai Ivanovich Zinoviev
MotherEvdokia Naumovna Senyavina

Princess Ekaterina Nikolaevna Orlova (born Zinovieva; 30 December 1758 – 27 June 1781) was a Russian courtier. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Empress Catherine the Great from 1773–1777, and in 1777 married her cousin Grigory Orlov, a favourite of Catherine II.

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