Avdotya Ivanovna Chernysheva (; February 12, 1693 – June 17, 1747) (also Eudocia) was a Russian noble and

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. She was a royal mistress of Tsar

Peter the Great Peter I (, ; – ), better known as Peter the Great, was the Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia, Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia, Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned j ...

of Russia. She was the daughter of Prince Ivan Ivanovitch Rzyevskiy and Daria Gavrilovna and in 1710 married Prince (1672–1745). The relationship with Peter continued on and off from 1708 until his death in 1725. In 1717, she was involved in the fall of her rival

Mary Hamilton "Mary Hamilton", or "The Fower Maries" ("The Four Marys"), is a common name for a well-known sixteenth-century ballad from Scotland based on an apparently fictional incident about a lady-in-waiting to a Queen of Scotland. It is Child Ballads, C ...

. It is rumored that Peter died of syphilis after having been infected by Chernysheva, but there is nothing to indicate that she was herself ill. She was a state lady of Empress

Anna of Russia Anna Ioannovna (; ), also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Much of her administratio ...

in 1730–1745.

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* Русский биографический словарь: В 25 т. /А. А. Половцов. — М., 1896—1918 {{DEFAULTSORT:Chernysheva, Avdotya 1693 births 1747 deaths Mistresses of Peter the Great Ladies-in-waiting of the Tsardom of Russia Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) State Ladies from the Russian Empire Noblewomen from the Russian Empire