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Tsarina Eudoxia Fyodorovna Lopukhina [alt 1] (9 August 1669 – 7 September 1731) [alt 2] was the first wife of Peter I the Great, and the last ethnic Russian and non-foreign wife of a Russian monarch. [1] She was the mother of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich and the paternal grandmother of Peter II of Russia.
Possibly husband and father of illegitimate Elizabeth Grigorieva Temkina. [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 ...
Peter I ([ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ]; Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich; [note 1] 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, [note 2] from 1721 until his death in 1725.
His wife died and he remarried Anna Horstmans, but divorced her in 1715, when he married a third time to Dorothea Maria Merian, the daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian. The couple was recruited by Peter the Great in 1716 and went to Russia, where he became first curator of the Imperial art gallery founded in 1720. [ 1 ]
Peter, however, developed a fondness for her, which the court was at a loss to explain. Catherine called Elizaveta a "new Madame de Pompadour " [ 7 ] (of whom she greatly disapproved), and the Grand Duke took to calling her "my Romanova" (a pun on her patronymic , Romanovna: his own surname was Romanov ).
Peter the Great: His Life and World is a 1980 text written by Robert K. Massie. The book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. [1]
In 1707, Peter I married again, to Marta Helena Skowrońska, later to become Catherine I of Russia, who dyed her hair black so she would not resemble flaxen hair-ed Anna Mons. [6] Anna's younger brother, Willem Mons, became secretary and friend of Catherine. He was an old friend of Peter's, having taken part in the Battle of Poltava.