Regicide. General memoirs of Count Orlov

Count Alexei Orlov is primarily known for the fact that he was one of the main organizers of the palace coup, which brought to the throne to Catherine I. shortly after, her husband Peter III was killed with the direct participation of Alexei Orlov, so many accused the latter of regicide.
In the memoirs of Count Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, recorded by his secretary, his own version of these events is stated, in addition, many other acts of the author of the memoirs are described - about the abduction of the Princess Tarakanova, which claims to the Russian throne, about the war with the Turks at the Mediterranean The sea, about the love stories of the count and his life in Moscow, the true master of which he was at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries.
These records, first presented in this book, are supplemented by the memories of another outstanding person - Ivan Savvich Brykin, who lived for more than a hundred years (1706 - 1821), eighty of which he was the caretaker of the imperial residence near Moscow. His memoirs contain the household details of the life of 10 Russian emperors, from Peter I to Alexander I, whom Brykin had to see