Qui va sortir amb Caterina II de Rússia?

Caterina II de Rússia (Szczecin, 2 de maig de 1729 - Sant Petersburg, 6 de novembre de 1796 ^(Julià)), anomenada la Gran, rus: Екатери́на II Алексе́евна Вели́кая, Iekaterina II Alekséievna Velíkaia, fou una princesa alemanya que esdevingué tsarina de Rússia per l'abdicació del seu marit, el tsar Pere III. Representa la monarquia il·lustrada per antonomàsia del segle xviii a l'Imperi Rus.

Alexander Petrovich Yermolov (1754–1834) was a Russian favourite and the lover of Catherine the Great from 1785 to 1786.

Yermolov was presented to Catherine by Grigory Potemkin, tested by Anna Protasova and became Catherine's lover in 1785. He collaborated with the enemies of Potemkin and attempted to have Potemkin removed, and thereby lost his position. He went to Paris in the late 1780s and spent the rest of his life in Schloss Frohsdorf.

Ivan Nikolajevich Rimsky-Korsakov, né Korsav (29 June 1754 – 31 July 1831 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian courtier and lover of Catherine the Great from 1778 to 1779.

Count Alexander Matveyevich Dmitriev-Mamonov (Russian: Александр Матвеевич Дмитриев-Мамонов; 30 September 1758 – 11 October 1803, buried in Donskoy Monastery) was a lover of Catherine II of Russia from 1786 to 1789.

Alexander Dmitrievich Lanskoy, also called Sashin'ka or Sasha, (19 March [O.S. 8 March] 1758 – 6 July [O.S. 25 June] 1784) was a Russian general, favourite and lover of Catherine the Great between 1780 and 1784. It has been said that "[a] look at [her] correspondence with her favorites gives the impression she only had tender feelings for one, Alexander Lanskoi."

Count Sergei Vasilievich Saltykov (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Салтыков, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ səltɨˈkof]; c. 1722 – 1784) was a Russian officer (chamberlain) who became the first lover of Empress Catherine the Great after her arrival in Russia.

Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812) was a Russian statesman of Ukrainian origin. He was a favourite (lover) of Russian empress Catherine the Great from 1776 to 1777.

Count Semyon Zorich (1743–1799) was an Imperial Russian lieutenant-general and count of the Holy Roman Empire, born in Serbia, who served Imperial Russia against the Prussians and Turks. A member of the Russian court, he was presented to Empress Catherine the Great by Grigory Potemkin and, after having been tested by Praskovja Bruce and doctor Rogerson, became the Empress' lover. He was most influential in the commercial development of Shklov and Mogilev.

Alexander Semyonovich Vasilchikov (Russian: Александр Семёнович Васильчиков, tr. Aleksandr Semënovič Vasil'čikov; 1746–1813) was a Russian aristocrat who became the lover of Catherine the Great from 1772 to 1774.

Vasilchikov was an ensign in the Chevalier Guard Regiment when he was noted by Catherine and was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber on 1 August 1772. When Catherine's then-lover Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov left court, Catherine was informed about his adultery, and 12 August, Vasilchikov was made general aide-de-camp and lover of Catherine. Vasilchikov was expected to be available to attend on her at all times, and was not allowed to leave the palace without permission.

The relationship was short-lived. Catherine found Vasilchikov's gentleness cloying, saying "His tenderness made me weep." When Vasilchikov was away on a journey, sent by the empress, Grigory Potemkin replaced him as her lover. She wrote to her friend Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm about Vasilchikov's dismissal: "Why do you reproach me because I dismiss a well-meaning but extremely boring bourgeois in favour of one of the greatest, the most comical and amusing, characters of this iron century?"

Vasilchikov later complained that he felt like a hired gigolo: "I was nothing more to her than a kind of male cocotte and I was treated as such. If I made a request for myself or anyone else, she did not reply, but the next day I found a bank-note for several thousand rubles in my pocket. She never condescended to discuss with me any matters that lay close to my heart."

Catherine characteristically rewarded her former lover richly. Vasilchikov was given a pension of twenty thousand rubles and valuable properties. He lived the rest of his life in Moscow. He never married. He built a notable collection of Western European paintings and sculptures, including a "Self Portrait" by Velasquez and works by Philips Wouwerman and Andries Botha.

Prince Platon Alexandrovich Zubov (Russian: Платон Александрович Зубов; November 26 [O.S. November 15] 1767 – April 19 [O.S. April 7] 1822) was the last of Catherine the Great's favourites and the most powerful man in the Russian Empire during the last years of her reign.

Grigori Aleksàndrovitx Potiomkin, príncep de Tàurida (rus: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Потёмкин, Txijovo, prop de Smolensk, 24 de setembre de 1739 - Iași, 5 d'octubre de 1791) va ser un estadista, militar i polític rus, amant de Caterina II de Rússia. Sovint s'ha transcrit o transliterat el nom de Potiomkin com a Potemkin, perquè en rus de vegades s'escriu la lletra "ё" ("io") sense la dièresi ("е", que quan és tònica, fa el so "ie"), cosa que pot causar confusió.

Va ser l'home encarregat de l'annexió a l'Imperi Rus de Nova Rússia (la regió de Crimea) i de l'administració de la regió durant els primers anys, allà va disposar d'enormes terrenys de cultiu i va fundar diverses ciutats, com ara Dniprò (1776), Kherson (1778), Mikolaiv (1789).

Va ser favorit de Caterina II. Segons dades controvertides, el 8 de juny de 1774 va contraure matrimoni morganàtic amb la sobirana.

Prince Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (Russian: Григорий Григорьевич Орлов; 17 October 1734 – 24 April 1783) was a favourite of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (1772), state and military figure, collector, patron of arts, and General-in-Chief.

He patronised M. V. Lomonosov, D. I. Fonvisin, V. I. Bazhenov and gave them financial support. Honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1765). He collected paintings (including Rembrandt, P. P. Rubens, Titian), sculpture, Chinese, Japanese and Russian porcelain, hunting weapons, etc. (Orlov's collection has been preserved almost completely; it is now in the State Museum-Reserve "Gatchina" of the eponymous city). A large landowner, particularly of the Gatchina manor, where Orlov commissioned the construction of a palace and a landscape garden.

He became a leader of the 1762 coup which overthrew Catherine's husband Peter III of Russia and installed Catherine as empress. For some years he was virtually co-ruler with her, but his repeated infidelities and the enmity of Catherine's other advisers led to his fall from power.

Estanislau August Poniatowski o Estanislau II August (en polonès: Stanisław August Poniatowski, nascut Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski) (Voŭčyn (Belarús), 17 de gener de 1732 – Sant Petersburg (Rússia), 12 de febrer de 1798) fou el darrer rei de Polònia i gran duc de Lituània (Confederació de Polònia i Lituània), del 25 de novembre de 1764 al 7 de gener de 1795.

La Confederació de Bar s'aixecà contra la ingerència russa a Polònia l'any 1768 i al mateix temps contra el Rei Estanislau i els reformadors polonesos que volien limitar el poder de la noblesa.

És una figura històrica controvertida, ja que d'una banda és reconegut com el gran protector de les arts i de les ciències, que va endegar importants reformes de caràcter progressista, però de l'altra banda també se'l recorda com aquell que no va saber evitar la destrucció de l'anomenada "República de les Dues Nacions", que acabaria essent repartida entre Àustria, Prússia i Rússia.