Aleksey Okhotnikov

Aleksey Yakovlevich Okhotnikov (1780 – January 30, 1807) (Russian: Алексей Яковлевич Охотников), also Alexis Okhotnikov in foreign sources, was a Russian cavalry guards (kavalergard) officer best known for being a secret lover of Russian Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna^[1] and a rumored father of her short-lived daughter, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna. The brief, thought to be a sole one, affair of the Empress was kept in close secret and was only uncovered to a wider public from the diaries of the Empress after her death.^[2]

Alexey Yakovlevich Okhotnikov

In popular culture

He had a episodic appearance in the 2005 Russian TV series Adjutants of Love portrayed by Andrey Kuzichev [ru]

References

1. Охотников Алексей Яковлевич, Necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
2. Александр Крылов, ПРЕЛЕСТНАЯ ЕЛИЗАВЕТА. Архивные изыскания, «Новая Юность» 2002, no.3(54)