Avraam Fyodorovich Lopukhin

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Avraam Fedorovich Lopuchin ( Russian Авраам Фёдорович Лопухин ; † December 8 . Jul / 19th December  1718 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian prince .

Life

Lopuchin, son of the boyar Prince Illarion Avramowitsch Lopuchin and brother of Tsarina Evdokija Fyodorovna , was one of the 50 noblemen who were sent to Italy by Tsar Peter I in 1697 to study shipbuilding .

After his return, Lopukhin became increasingly important over the years, especially for the old aristocratic families who were hostile to Peter I and who hoped for Tsarevich Alexei . A secret circle of nobles formed around Alexei, who exerted influence on Lopuchin. In the autumn of 1716 Alexei fled abroad.

In early 1718 Alexei managed to return to Moscow. In February 1718 Grigory Grigoryevich Skornjakow-Pissarew from the Preobrazhensky body guard regiment came to the Pokrovsky women's monastery in Suzdal , to which Tsarina Yevdokia Fyodorovna was exiled under the supervision of Lopuchin's father-in-law Fyodor Romodanovsky . During the search of the cell, letters from Lopukhin and others were found, which were immediately reported to the tsar, with reference to necessary arrests. Lopukhin was accused of having had secret correspondence with Yevdokia Fyodorovna and of knowing and supporting Alexei's escape. Lopukhin did not admit anything at the first interrogation. Fyodor Shurawski, chorister of Marija Alexewnas (daughter of the former Tsar Alexei I and half-sister Peter I) stated that Lopukhin had discussed problems of the people with Marija Alexejewna and corresponded with Alexeis. After further interrogations and 15 beatings, Lopukhin confessed like the others and admitted that he wished the tsar's death and the enthronement of the tsarevich.

Lopukhin was brought to St. Petersburg and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress . Further interrogation and torture followed. In November 1718, the Senate sentenced Lopukhin to death . In December 1718, Lopuchin and four servants of Alexeis were executed . Lopuchin's head was on public display until March 1719. Then Lopukhin was buried in Moscow's Andronikov Monastery. He was married twice and had two sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e А. Гельвих: Лопухин, Авраам (Абрам) Федорович, родной брат первой супруги Петра Великого, Ердокиои Фовод . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 10 , 1914, pp. 648-649 ( Wikisource [accessed August 22, 2019]).
  2. ↑ 1718: Avram Lopukhin, Peter the Great's brother-in-law (accessed August 22, 2019).
  3. ↑ Paul Bushkovitch: Peter the Great . Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, pp. 149 .
personal data
SURNAME Lopukhin, Avraam Fyodorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лопухин, Авраам Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian prince
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1718
Place of death St. Petersburg