Word: orlov
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...battleship is not only bigger than a destroyer, it is a thousand-fold more complicated. Comrade V. M. Orlov, chief of the navy department, admitted last week that there were neither yards nor designers in Russia today capable of constructing such a craft. His solution was simple: one battleship would be ordered from the U. S. to be shipped to Russia knocked down in separate parts, accompanied by a force of U. S. naval architects and technicians. On Soviet shores the parts would be duplicated, then both battleships would be screwed together...
...specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate. But 15-in. guns, big as those on H. M. S. Hood would be quite all right. Shipyard rumors last week gave Bethlehem the contract. Within 18 months Comrade Orlov may set himself the gigantic task of making order out of a series of shipments that will include everything from turrets, barbettes, gears, pistons, armor plates, electric hoists, turbines, boilers, stanchions, steampipes, searchlights, smokestacks to a davit for the Captain...
Saltykov tired of his imperial conquest, but soon Catherine had another lover, Poniatowski. Husband Peter connived at this intrigue even more openly. When Poniatowski was recalled to his native Poland, Catherine solaced herself with a muscular Guards lieutenant named Orlov. But meantime she was making herself as popular as Peter, with his anti-Russian fads, was making himself disliked. When the old Empress finally died Catherine and Peter were at open enmity. A successful coup d'état upped Catherine to the imperial throne. Her lover's brother murdered the miserable Peter-without her knowledge or consent, says...
Shortly after she broke off with Orlov Catherine struck up the strangest of her partnerships-with Gregory Potemkin, one-eyed, clumsy, moody, brilliant. It was an alliance that soon ceased to be physical (Potemkin chose and dismissed her lovers himself) but remained intimate. Both profited by it; Potemkin to the tune of some 50 million rubles. They lived to see part of their dream come true: Russia mistress of the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russian frontiers pushed far into the west. But there came a day, when Catherine was 62, when she refused to dismiss her current lover...