About Aleksey Okhotnikov
Lived 1780 – 1807 (aged 26–27). Aleksey Okhotnikov was a Russian military officer.
Aleksey Yakovlevich Okhotnikov (; 1780 – January 30, 1807), also Alexis Okhotnikov in foreign sources, was a Russian Chevalier Guard officer best known for being a secret lover of Russian Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna 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.
In popular culture He had an episodic appearance in the 2005 Russian TV series Adjutants of Love, portrayed by .
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Who was Aleksey Okhotnikov?
lover of Russian empress Elizabeth Alexeievna
When was Aleksey Okhotnikov born?
Aleksey Okhotnikov was born in 1780.
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Aleksey Okhotnikov died on 30 January 1807 in Saint Petersburg.
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Aleksey Okhotnikov was a military officer.
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Aleksey Okhotnikov was Russian.
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