Alexander Samoylov

Also he was promoted to kamer-yunker (cadet) and became the chairman of the State Council of Imperial Russia, which existed in the reign of Catherine II in 1776–1787.

On 12 December 1790, he commanded the left wing of the army of Alexander Suvorov in the storm of Izmail and was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of 1st degree.

For his efforts in bringing about the peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire, Catherine II personally decorated him with the Order of St. Andrew.

On 17 September 1792, he was appointed Prosecutor General of the Russian Empire of the Senate, replacing the seriously ill prince Alexander Vyazemsky.

Alexander Samoilov married princess Troubetzkoy and had one son, Nicholas, who did not leave issue from his marriage to Countess Yuliya Skavronsky.