Pyotr Lopukhin

Pyotr Lopukhin
Portrait of Lopukhin by Stepan Shchukin
Alma mater	Imperial Moscow University (1761)

Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin (1753, Saint Petersburg – 1827) was a Russian politician and member of the Lopukhin family. 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, wife of Pavel Kutaisov
• Ekaterina, née Shetneva (1763–1839). Children:
  • Alexandra Petrovna Lopukhina (1788—1852)
  • Pavel Petrovich Lopukhin (1790—1873), a lieutenant general, a member of the Napoleonic Wars, 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.