Alexander Yermolov

Alexander Petrovich Yermolov (1754–1834) was a Russian favourite and the lover of Catherine the Great from 1785 to 1786.

Yermolov was presented to Catherine by Grigory Potemkin, tested by Anna Protasova and became Catherine's lover in 1785. He collaborated with the enemies of Potemkin and attempted to have Potemkin removed, and thereby lost his position. He went to Paris in the late 1780s and spent the rest of his life in Schloss Frohsdorf.

References

Marie Tetzlaff : Katarina den Stora (Catherine the Great) (1997) (In Swedish)

Mistresses and minions of Russian Emperors and Empresses

1700–1762	Anna Mons Willem Mons Avdotya Chernysheva Mary Hamilton Maria Cantemir Ernst Johann von Biron Aleksey Razumovsky Ivan Shuvalov Elizaveta Vorontsova Maria Rumyantseva

1762–1796	Grigory Orlov (1762–72) Alexander Vasilchikov (1772–74) Grigory Potemkin (1774–76) Pyotr Zavadovsky (1776–77) Semyon Zorich (1777–78) Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov (1778–80) Alexander Lanskoy (1780–84) Alexander Yermolov (1784–85) Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov (1785–89) Platon Zubov (1789–96)

1796–1917	Anna Lopukhina Maria Naryshkina Varvara Nelidova Catherine Dolgorukova Mathilde Kschessinska Natalia Brasova

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