Alexey Razumovsky

Count Alexei Grigoryevich Razumovsky (* March 28, 1709; † July 18, 1771 in Saint Petersburg ) was Marshal of the Imperial Russian Army and lover of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.

Razumovsky was the son of a Cossack, his brother Kirill Razumovsky Grigorjewitsch, the last Hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. As a singer in the court chapel in St. Petersburg, he met Elizabeth, and became her lover. In 1744 he was elevated by Emperor Charles VII to the German Imperial Count.

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