Elizabeth of Russia
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Elizabeth or Elizaveta Petrovna was Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death in 1762. She remains one of the most popular Russian monarchs because of her decision not to execute a single person dur
Portrait by Vigilius Eriksen, 1757
Young Elizabeth in the 1720s, painted by Ivan Nikitich Nikitin.
Portrait of her fiancé, Charles Augustus of Holstein-Gottorp (1706-1727), Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, ca. 1725.
Peter II and Princess Elizabeth Petrovna Riding to Hound by Valentin Serov
Alexei Razumovsky
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Count Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky was a Ukrainian-born Russian Registered Cossack who rose to become the lover and, supposedly, morganatic spouse of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia. A member o
Princess Tarakanova, in the Petropavlovsk Fortress at the Time of the Flood (1864, Tretyakov Gallery).
