Pyotr Lopukhin

Portrait of Lopukhin by Stepan Shchukin

Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin (1753, Saint Petersburg – 1827) was a Russian politician. He was president of the Council of Ministers from 1816 to 1827.

Marriage and issue

He married twice:

  1. Praskovia Ivanovna, née Levshina - their daughter Anna was a mistress of Paul I of Russia.
  2. Iekaterina, née Shetnevoy (1763–1839).

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
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