Vasily Petrovich Orlov (Russian: Василий Петрович Орлов) was a Russian Full General of Cavalry.

Hero of Russo-Turkish Wars of 1768–1774 and 1787–1792, particularly the storming of Izmail.

[1] Ataman of the Don Cossacks, received orders to command the Indian March of Paul in January 1801 from Emperor Paul I of Russia.

His wife Daria Fedorovna, was a daughter of Ataman Count Fedor Petrovich Denisov and son of Vasily Petrovich Vasily Orlov-Denisov, a Don Cossacks General in honour of his grandfather Fedor Petrovich Denisov added his surname to his own, becoming count Orlov-Denisov on 26 April 1801.

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