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List of Russian royal mistresses and lovers includes mistresses, minions, favourites and simply lovers of the Russian emperors and reigning empresses before and after their coronations. Only two child-emperors did not have any lovers: Peter II and Ivan VI.
18th century
Peter I
- Anna Mons — official favourite
- Anisya Kirillovna Tolstaya
- Varvara Arsenyeva — possibly
- Maria Rumyantseva — possibly
- Mary Hamilton
- Letitia Cross
- Avdotya Chernysheva — possibly
- Elżbieta Sieniawska — possibly
- Maria Cantemir — official favourite
Catherine I
- Boris Sheremetev — before meeting with Peter I
- Alexander Danilovich Menshikov — before meeting with Peter I
- Willem Mons — before coronation
- Piotr Paweł Sapieha — possibly
- Reinhold Gustaw von Loewenwolde
Anna
- Pyotr Bestuzhev-Ryumin — before coronation
- Ernst Johann von Biron — official favourite
Regent Anna Leopoldovna
Elizabeth
- Alexander Buturlin — before coronation
- Semyon Kirillovich Naryshkin — before coronation
- Alexey Yakovlevich Shubin — before coronation
- Alexei Razumovsky — official favourite, possibly husband
- Pimen Lyalin
- Nikita Beketov
- Ivan Shuvalov — official favourite
Peter III
Catherine the Great
- see also: ru:Список мужчин Екатерины II
- Sergei Saltykov (1726–1765) — in 1752—1754 (before coronation).
- Stanisław August Poniatowski — in 1756—1758 (before coronation). Possibly father of the Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna.
- Grigory Orlov — lover since 1759/1760, official favourite in 1762–1772. Father of her illegitimate son Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky (see Bobrinsky family).
- Alexander Vasilchikov — official favourite in 1772–1774.
- Grigory Potemkin — official favourite since 1774 until death, but lover until 1776. Possibly husband and father of illegitimate Elizabeth Grigorieva Temkina.
- Pyotr Zavadovsky — official favourite in 1776—1777
- Semyon Zorich — official favourite in 1777—1778
- Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov — official favourite in 1778—1779
- Alexander Lanskoy — official favourite in 1780—1784
- Alexander Yermolov — official favourite in 1785—1786
- Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov — official favourite in 1786—1789
- Platon Zubov — official favourite in 1789—1796
Paul I
- Sophia Razumovskaya — before coronation, had a son illegitimate Semen Velikiy.
- Olga Zherebtsova — before coronation
- Yekaterina Nelidova — official favourite
- Anna Lopukhina — official favourite
- Madame Chevalier
- Mavra Isidorovna Yuryeva, mother of the illegitimate Marfa Pavlovna Musina-Yuryeva.
19th century
Alexander I
- Ekaterina Torsukova — before coronation
- Sofia Meshcherskaya — before coronation, possibly mother of the illegitimate Nikolai Lukash.
- Maria Naryshkina — official favourite, mother of many his illegitimate children, survived only Sofia Naryshkina.
- Varvara Turkestanova
- Marguerite Georges — possibly
- Marie-Thérèse Bourgoin
Nicholas I
- Anna-Maria Charlota de Rutenskiold - before coronation
- Varvara Yakovleva
- Varvara Nelidova — official favourite
- Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina — possibly, rumoured illegitimate daughter, Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya
Alexander II
- Alexandra Albedinskaya
- Catherine Dolgorukova — official favourite, later wife. Mother of four illegitimate children (see Yuryevsky family).
Alexander III
- Maria Meshcherskaya — before coronation. First love, possibly not lover.
Nicholas II
- Geisha Mooroka O-Matsu (Моорока О-Мацу) — during voyage in Japan in 1891. Before coronation.
- Mathilde Kschessinska — before coronation.
References
- ^ Kazimierz Waliszewski. Peter the Great, 1898
- Нина Соротокина. Императрица Елизавета Петровна. Её недруги и фавориты.
- Christine Hatt. Catherine the Great. World Almanac Library, 2004. P.18
- ^ Ferrand, Jacques. Descendances naturelles des souverains et grands-ducs de Russie, de 1762 à 1910: Repertoire Genealogique. Paris. 1995
- Polovtsoff A. Les favorits de Catherine la Grande. — Paris: Plon, 1939.
- М. Додолев. Мадмуазель Жорж или М. А. Нарышкина
- Боханов А.Н. Император Александр III. — М, 2001. — 512 с. — ISBN 5-8253-0153-4.
- "KUNSTKAMERA". web1.kunstkamera.ru. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
Sources
- Гельбиг Г. фон. Русские избранники. — М, 1999. = Georg Adolf Wilhelm Von Helbig. Russische Günstlinge. Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1809.
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