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.

Preceded by Alexis Kourakine	Procurator General of the Governing Senate 1798–1799	Succeeded by Alexander Andreivitch Beklechov
Preceded by Gavrila Derzhavin	Procurator General of the Governing Senate (Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire) 1803–1810	Succeeded by Ivan Dmitriev
Preceded by Nikolay Saltykov	Chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers 1816–1827	Succeeded by Viktor Kochubey