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artful a diplomatist as his master. "Wha wad sup wi' the 

 Deil, maun hae a lang spune." 



Count Alexis Orlof died in 1810 and his widow sold the 

 stud to the Russian Government in 1845. It exists now at 

 Khrenovaya in the government of Varonej, which is to the 

 south of Moscow. From this Orlof stud, all the other 



Photo by\ 



[L. C. Gorodetzky, Tzarskoe Sclo. 

 FIG. 19. A pair of Orlof Trotters. 



Russian trotting studs were formed. The Grand Duke 

 Dimitry purchased the country around Doubrovka from the 

 Derfelden family, and formed a stud there in 1888 with pure 

 Orlof trotters, pure Orlovo-Rostopchin saddle horses, English 

 thoroughbreds, and pure Ardenne farm horses of the 

 mountain type. 



Count Rostopchin, who was a contemporary of Count 



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