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Varvara Arkadyevna Nelidova (Варвара Аркадьевна Нелидова, 1814–1897) was a mistress of Nicholas I of Russia from 1832 until his death in 1855. Her aunt Yekaterina Nelidova was a mistress of Nicholas' father Paul, and her maternal grandfather was Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden.
Para entonces, se sabía que el emperador tenía otra favorita, Varvara Nelidova. "El zar está cada día más ocupado con Nelidova. Va a verla varias veces al día.
- Peter I – Anna Mons
- Anna Ioannovna – Ernst Johann Biron
- Elisabeth Petrovna – Alexei Razumovsky
- Peter III – Elizaveta Vorontsova
- Catherine II – Grigory Orlov
- Catherine II – Grigory Potemkin
- Paul I – Anna Lopukhina
- Alexander I – Maria Naryshkina
- Nicholas I – Varvara Nelidova
- Alexander II – Catherine Dolgorukova
Peter the Great (reigned 1682–1725) loved everything European, and his taste in women was no exception. Though he had been married to a Russian noble lady Eudoxia Lopukhina since 1689, he had no feelings for the wife imposed on him, but immediately fell for Anna Mons, a young and beautiful German woman born in Moscow to a merchant’s family. She was...
Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740, Anna Ioannovna was Peter the Great’s niece but lived in the German-ruled Duchy of Courland (now Western Latvia). After emperor Peter II died in infancy in 1730, Russian nobility invited Anna to reign in Russia – and she brought her long-time lover and adviser, Ernst Johann Biron, with her. Later Anna’s opponents...
Peter I’s daughter Elisabeth replaced Anna’s relatives on the throne after a palace coup, ruling from 1741 to 1762. Never married officially, she had several lovers but Alexei Razumovsky was the most prominent of them. Razumovsky originally was a son of an ordinary Cossack from Ukraine, who came to the court as a chorister and became Elisabeth’s fa...
An emperor who ruled for just a year (1761–1762), Peter III had terrible relations with his wife Catherine. No wonder he paid attention to another woman, noble Elizaveta Vorontsova but his choice quite surprised the court – they considered Vorontsova rather unappealing. To put it mildly. “Her ugliness is unspeakable, even though she has good physiq...
Empress Catherine the Great had so much love to give that we would need a separate article to name all of her 23 lovers. So we’ve chosen two most important favorites. The first is Grigory Orlov, a handsome count from the royal guard who helped her to get rid of her husband Peter III and assume the throne. At first Catherine, much like Elisabeth, ev...
One of those men was Grigory Potemkin, another powerful nobleman. He was very influential politically and militarily, becoming indispensable during Catherine’s rule (from 1762) though their love bond didn’t last long. For Catherine, Potemkin was far more than just a lover – he was one of the men the empire relied upon. Potemkin reformed the army, s...
From 1796, when Paul I inherited the throne from Catherine II, and until 1917, when the Russian empire collapsed, the crown belonged to men – so their favorites were female, predominantly not involved in politics. Paul, for himself, fell madly in love with a young lady, Anna Lopukhina, though he was already married. He gave Lopukhina’s father the t...
Paul’s son Alexander (1801-1825) had numerous mistresses yet only one made him “settle down”, with their relationship lasting 15 years. Princess Maria Naryshkina of Polish origin stole the heart of Alexander when he was just a royal heir; his relationship with wife was chilly, so for 15 years Maria was his “other family”. Some historians assume Ale...
Unlike many on this list, Nicholas I (1825–1855) did love his lawful spouse, empress Alexandra. Nevertheless, rumors circulated that after Alexandra gave birth to his 7th child and fell seriously ill, Nicholas took a mistress. This wasn’t a typical royal affair, though: both emperor and Nelidova kept their relationship secret and the empress was be...
Alexander II was 30 years older than Catherine Dolgorukova: when they met each other, she was 11 years old and he – 41 (obviously, that wasn’t when the passions burst). After helping her family to move to St. Petersburg, the tsar once ran into Dolgorukova when she was 19; both fell in love which started the only affair in the history of the House R...
By this time, the emperor was known to have another favorite, Varvara Nelidova. “The tsar is more and more busy with Nelidova every day. He goes to her several times a day.
Varvara Nelidova fue una astrónoma y geofísica rusa nacida en San Petersburgo en 1843. Después de completar sus estudios en la Universidad de San Petersburgo, se convirtió en la primera mujer en ser contratada como asistente de observatorio en el Observatorio de Púlkovo.
Reportedly, after more than twenty-five years of fidelity, Nicholas took a mistress, Varvara Nelidova, one of Alexandra's ladies-in-waiting, after the doctors had forbidden the Empress from sexual activity due to her poor health and recurring heart-attacks.
Varvara Arkadyevna Nelidova (Варвара Аркадьевна Нелидова, 1814–1897) was a mistress of Nicholas I of Russia from 1832 until his death in 1855. Her aunt Yekaterina Nelidova was a mistress of Nicholas' father Paul, and her maternal grandfather was Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden. [1]
