Aleksey Yakovlevich Okhotnikov (; 1780 – January 30, 1807), also Alexis Okhotnikov in foreign sources, was a Russian Chevalier Guard officer best known for being a secret lover of Russian Empress Elizabeth AlexeievnaОхотников 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, ПРЕЛЕСТНАЯ ЕЛИЗАВЕТА. Архивные изыскания, «Новая Юность» 2002, no.3(54)
In popular culture He had an episodic appearance in the 2005 Russian TV series Adjutants of Love, portrayed by .
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