Vladimir Nikolayevich Orlov

[5] His son Prince Nicholas Vladimirovich Orlov (1891–1961) wed in 1917 Nadezhda Petrovna Romanov Orloff.

Your Highness knows, of course, how much His Majesty appreciates Kegress.Indeed, Kégresse continued as Head of the Mechanical Department of the Russian Imperial Garage at Tsarskoye Selo until the fall of the Romanovs caused him to flee to his homeland.

Orlov continued his military duties until he was banished by the Tsar in 1915 to the Caucasus after losing the struggle for power to Rasputin.

On August 19, 1915, after an unsuccessful attempt to discredit Rasputin and the Tsarina in a newspaper he and Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, First Deputy Interior Minister, were discharged from their posts,[11] and four days later, the Tsar took supreme command of the Russian armies fighting on the Eastern Front of the First World War.

[11][12] As The Times correspondent Robert Wilton put it,[13] The loathsome Rasputin played no small part in suggesting the Tsar’s mystical motives for taking up the High Command.