List of Russian royal mistresses and lovers

List of Russian royal mistresses and lovers includes mistresses, minions, favourites and simply lovers of the Russian emperors and reigning empresses before and after coronation.

18th century[]

Peter I[]

• Anna Mons — official favourite
• Anisya Kirillovna Tolstaya
• Varvara Michajlovna Arsen'eva — possibly^[1]
• Maria Rumyantseva — possibly^[1]
• Mary Hamilton
• Letitia Cross
• Avdotya Chernysheva — possibly^[1]
• Elżbieta Sieniawska — possibly^[1]
• 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
• — possibly

Anna[]

• Pyotr Bestuzhev-Ryumin — before coronation
• Ernst Johann von Biron — official favourite

Regent Anna Leopoldovna[]

• Julia von Mengden

Elizabeth[]

• Alexander Buturlin — before coronation
• — before coronation
• Alexey Yakovlevich Shubin — before coronation
• Alexei Razumovsky — official favourite, possibly husband
• Pimen Lyalin
• Nikita Beketov
• Ivan Shuvalov — official favourite^[2]

Peter III[]

• Elizaveta Vorontsova

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 .^[3]
• Grigory Orlov — lover since 1759/1760, official favourite in 1762–1772. Father of her illegitimate son Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky (see Bobrinsky family).^[4]
• 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  [ru].^[4]
• 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^[5]

Paul I[]

• Sophia Razumovskaya — before coronation, had a son illegitimate .^[4]
• Olga Zherebtsova — before coronation
• Yekaterina Nelidova — official favourite
• Anna Lopukhina — official favourite
• Mavra Isidorovna Yuryeva, mother of the illegitimate Marfa Pavlovna Musina-Yuryeva.^[4]

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 .^[4]
• Varvara Turkestanova
• Marguerite Georges — possibly^[6]

Nicholas I[]

• - before coronation^[4]
• Varvara Yakovleva
• Varvara Nelidova — official favourite
• Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina — possibly, rumoured illegitimate daughter, Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya^[4]

Alexander II[]

• Alexandra Albedinskaya
• Catherine Dolgorukova — official favourite, later wife. Mother of four illegitimate children (see Yuryevsky family).^[4]

Alexander III[]

• Marija Mesjtjerskaja — before coronation. First love, possibly not lover.^[7]

Nicholas II[]

• Geisha Mooroka O-Matsu (Моорока О-Мацу) — during voyage in Japan in 1891.^[8] Before coronation.
• Mathilde Kschessinska — before coronation.

References[]

Sources[]

• Гельбиг Г. фон. Русские избранники. — М, 1999. = Georg Adolf Wilhelm Von Helbig. Russische Günstlinge. Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1809.