page_title: Pyotr Zavadovsky
hierarchical_section_title: Pyotr Zavadovsky
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Петр Васильевич Завадовский (1739-1812), Министр народного просвещения Российской империи.
context_page_description: Pyotr Zavadovsky was a Russian favourite and the lover of Catherine the Great from 1776 to 1777.
  Count Zavadovsky was named official secretary to Catherine in 1775 and became her lover on 2 January 1776. He is described as serious and cultivated and he is regarded to have been genuinely in love with Catherine. Their relationship was tense because of the jealousy he felt toward Potemkin, who still had a relationship with Catherine, although Zavadovsky had replaced him in a sexual sense, and Potemkin was also said to have had difficulties accepting the situation. The relationship was ended because of the continuing pressure. In 1778, Catherine contemplated recalling him, but was then introduced to Korsakov.
  In 1780 he was appointed a privy councillor; in 1781, he became the director of the state bank. He later became a senator and, at the end of his life, the minister of education under Czar Alexander I.
context_section_description: Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812) was a Russian favourite and the lover of Catherine the Great from 1776 to 1777.
  Count Zavadovsky was named official secretary to Catherine in 1775 and became her lover on 2 January 1776.  He is described as serious and cultivated and he is regarded to have been genuinely in love with Catherine.  Their relationship was tense because of the jealousy he felt toward Potemkin, who still had a relationship with Catherine, although Zavadovsky had replaced him in a sexual sense, and Potemkin was also said to have had difficulties accepting the situation.  The relationship was ended because of the continuing pressure.  In 1778, Catherine contemplated recalling him, but was then introduced to Korsakov.
  In 1780 he was appointed a privy councillor; in 1781, he became the director of the state bank. He later became a senator and, at the end of his life, the minister of education under Czar Alexander I.
caption: Portrait of Zavadovsky by Stepan Shchukin
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