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Death or Prince Orloff.

--The last arrival from Europe brings intelligence of the death of Prince Alexei Orloff, a prominent Russian statesman, who has long occupied important public stations.

He was born in 1787, entered the Russian army at an early age, and after serving through the campaigns against Napoleon, became aid-de-camp to the Emperor Alexander I. in 1814, and Colonel of a regiment of the horse-guards. During the insurrection which followed the accession of the Emperor Nicholas, Orloff rendered such important services in crushing the rebellion, that he was at once taken into the confidence of his imperial master, and for thirty years was the recipient of honors and emoluments greater than had before fallen to the lot of any subject of the empire. In 1856 he represented Russia in the Congress of Paris, and at the close of the negotiations was appointed President of the Grand Council of the Empire, a position which he held at the time of his death.

Prince Orloff passed a life of continued activity. His devotion to the empire was munificently rewarded, and in his death the Russian government loses an active and able, if unscrupulous, servant.

The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 11, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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