Pyotr Zavadovsky
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Count Pyotr Zavadovsky (Russian: Пётр Васи́льевич Завадо́вский; 1739–1812) was a Russian statesman of Ukrainian origin. He was a favourite (lover) of Russian empress Catherine the Great from 1776 to 1777.
Career
[edit | edit source]Count Zavadovsky was named official secretary to Catherine in 1775 and became her lover on 2 January 1776. He is described as serious and cultivated and he is regarded to have been genuinely in love with Catherine. Their relationship was tense because of the jealousy he felt toward Grigory Potemkin, who still had a relationship with Catherine, although Zavadovsky had replaced him in a sexual sense, and Potemkin was also said to have had difficulties accepting the situation. The relationship was ended because of the continuing pressure. In 1778, Catherine contemplated recalling him, but was then introduced to Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov. Zavadovsky became the highest official in the empire's educational system.[1]
In 1780, he was appointed a privy councillor; in 1781, he became the director of the state bank. He later became a senator and, at the end of his life, the minister of education under Emperor Alexander I.[2]
In popular culture
[edit | edit source]In the 2019 HBO miniseries Catherine the Great Zavadovsky is portrayed by Thomas Doherty.[3]
References
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Sources
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- Simon Sebag Montefiore : Potemkin och Katarina den stora - en kejserlig förbindelse (Potemkin and Catherine the Great - an imperial commitment) (2006) (In Swedish)
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- 1739 births
- 1812 deaths
- People from Unechsky District
- People from Belgorod Governorate
- Zavadovsky family
- Counts of the Russian Empire
- Russian people of Ukrainian descent
- Active Privy Councillor (Russian Empire)
- Education ministers of the Russian Empire
- Senators of the Russian Empire
- Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
- 18th-century diplomats of the Russian Empire
- Russian royal favourites
- Lovers of Catherine the Great
- Kiev Theological Academy alumni
- Imperial Russian major generals
- Recipients of the Order of St. Andrew
- Recipients of the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky
- Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree
- Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
- Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
- Russian history stubs