Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Orlov na St. Petersburg nye Prince, mgbe ahụ Count, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov na nwunye ya Olga Alexandrovna (nee Zherebtsova). Ọ mụrụ banyere iwu, n'afọ 1843 kwa, ọ ghọrọ odeakwụkwọ n'obí eze ndị Russia. Na 1845, e kenyere ya ọrụ na Life Guard Horse Regiment. N'afọ 1846, e mere ya onye na-arụ ọrụ n'ụlọ ọrụ nnukwu Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich, bụ́ nwa eze ukwu. N'afọ 1849, ọ pụtara ìhè n'ịkwatu ọchịchị ndị
Ọ bụ onye a ma ama n'ọgba aghara nke Hungary na 1848, e buliri ya n'ọkwa onye isi. Site na 1851 ruo 1854 o jere ozi na General Staff na War Ministry. N'ịbụ onye e buliri n'ọkwa onye isi, e zigara ya ndị agha nke Danube n'okpuru Field Marshal Paskevich, ebe ọ na-emegide ndị Turkey na nnọchibido nke Silistria ọ duru ebubo nke weghaara ebe e wusiri ike, a kpọtụrụ aha na dispatches dị ka igosipụta obi ike pụrụ iche, ma nye ya Order nke St. George; mana ọnya ya siri ike, ọ tụfuru anya na ogwe aka, tinye ya na ezumike ahụike ma ọ nọrọ ọnwa iri na isii na-agwọ ọrịa na Italytali. Ọ bụ n'ebe ahụ ka o dere akwụkwọ ya bụ "Ọkọ akụkọ nke njem izu atọ nke Napoleon nke Mbụ megide Prussia na 1806". Mgbe ọ lọtara, n'August 1856, e buliri ya n'ọkwá ịbụ onyeisi ndị agha. Malite n'afọ 1858, ọ malitere ibipụta akwụkwọ ndị na-ekwu banyere mgbanwe ndị a na-eme n'obodo, na-akwalite nnwere onwe okpukpe na omume ọma. N'afọ 1861, o nyere Tzar akwụkwọ ya "On the abolition of corporal punishment in Russia and in the Kingdom of Poland" nke mechara rụpụta n'iwu nke 17 Eprel 1863, na-ewepụ ya kpamkpam.