Aleksey Okhotnikov

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Aleksey Yakovlevich Okhotnikov (1780 – January 30, 1807) ({{langx|ru|Алексей Яковлевич Охотников}}), also Alexis Okhotnikov in foreign sources, was a Russian Chevalier Guard officer best known for being a secret lover of Russian Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna[https://lavraspb.ru/ru/nekropol/view/item/id/813/catid/3 Охотников Алексей Яковлевич], Necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. and a rumored father of her short-lived daughter, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna. The brief, thought to be a sole one, affair of the Empress was kept in close secret and was only uncovered to a wider public from the diaries of the Empress after her death.Александр Крылов, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031062254/http://magazines.russ.ru/nov_yun/2002/54/kry.html ПРЕЛЕСТНАЯ ЕЛИЗАВЕТА. Архивные изыскания], «Новая Юность» 2002, no.3(54)