Prince A prince is a Monarch, male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary title, hereditary, in s ...

Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin (1753,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– 1827) was a Russian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

and member of the

Lopukhin family The Lopukhin family was a noble family of the Russian Empire, forming one of the branches of the Sorokoumova-Glebov family. Eudoxia Lopukhina married Peter the Great. When Pyotr Lopukhin's son died childless, the family's princely title passed ...

. He was president of the Council of Ministers from 1816 to 1827.

Marriage and issue

He married twice: # Praskovia Ivanovna, née Levshina (1760—1785). Children: ## Princess Anna Petrovna Lopukhina (1777—1805), a royal mistress to Emperor Paul of Russia ## Vasily Petrovich (1780—?) ## Yekaterina Petrovna Lopukhina (Demidova) (11 April 1783 — 21 July 1830), wife of Grigory Alexandrovich Demidov ## Praskovya Petrovna Lopukhina (Kutaisova) (1784—1870), a

lady-in-waiting A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom ...

, wife of

Pavel Kutaisov Count Pavel Ivanovich Kutaisov (Russian:Павел Иванович Кутайсов; 25 November 1780, Saint Petersburg - 9 March 1840, Tambov) — was a Georgian born Russian Imperial Chamberlain and Steward. He also served as Chairman of t ...

# Ekaterina, née Shetneva (1763–1839). Children: ## Alexandra Petrovna Lopukhina (1788—1852) ## Pavel Petrovich Lopukhin (1790—1873), a

lieutenant general Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

, a member of the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

, Freemason ## Elizaveta Petrovna (179?—1805), died young ## Sofya Petrovna Lopukhina (Lobanova-Rostovskay) (1798—1825), wife of Aleksey Yakovlevich Lobanov-Rostovsky, died in childbirth

Life

Educated at home, he was recorded as Life Guards of the Transfiguration Regiment and entered service in 1769. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopukhin, Pyotr Vasilyevich 1753 births 1827 deaths Politicians of the Russian Empire Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Active Privy Councillors, 1st class (Russian Empire) Pyotr Imperial Moscow University alumni