{{Short description|Russian politician (1753–1827)}} {{Unreferenced|date=April 2026}} {{Expand Russian|topic=bio|date=December 2010}} {{Infobox person | image = P.V.Lopukhin by S.Shukin (1801).jpg | image_upright = 0.9 | caption = <small>Portrait of Lopukhin by [[Stepan Shchukin]]</small> | alma_mater = [[Imperial Moscow University|Imperial Moscow University (1761)]] | module2 = {{Infobox military person | branch = [[Imperial Russian Army]] | embed = yes }} }}
[[File:Портрет губернатора Петра Васильевича Лопухина.jpg|thumb|Portrait by [[Vladimir Borovikovsky]]]]
[[Prince]] '''Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin''' (1753, [[Saint Petersburg]] – 1827) was a Russian [[politician]] and member of the [[Lopukhin family]]. He was president of the Council of Ministers from 1816 to 1827.
==Marriage and issue== He married twice: * Praskovia Ivanovna, née [[:ru:Левшины|Levshina]] (1760—1785). Children: ** [[Anna Lopukhina|Princess Anna Petrovna Lopukhina]] (1777—1805), a royal mistress to [[Paul I of Russia|Emperor Paul of Russia]] ** Vasily Petrovich (1780—?) ** [[:ru:Лопухина, Екатерина Петровна|Yekaterina Petrovna Lopukhina (Demidova)]] (11 April 1783 — 21 July 1830), wife of [[Grigory Alexandrovich Demidov]] ** [[:ru:Кутайсова, Прасковья Петровна|Praskovya Petrovna Lopukhina (Kutaisova)]] (1784—1870), a [[lady-in-waiting]], wife of [[Pavel Kutaisov]] * Ekaterina, née [[:ru:Шетневы|Shetneva]] (1763–1839). Children: ** Alexandra Petrovna Lopukhina (1788—1852) ** [[:ru:Лопухин, Павел Петрович|Pavel Petrovich Lopukhin]] (1790—1873), a [[lieutenant general]], a member of the [[Napoleonic Wars]], [[Freemason]] ** Elizaveta Petrovna (179?—1805), died young ** Sofya Petrovna Lopukhina (Lobanova-Rostovskay) (1798—1825), wife of [[:ru:Лобанов-Ростовский, Алексей Яковлевич|Aleksey Yakovlevich Lobanov-Rostovsky]], died in childbirth
==Life== Educated at home, he was recorded as [[Russian Imperial Guard|Life Guards]] of the [[Preobrazhensky Regiment|Preobrazhensky ('Transfiguration') Regiment]] and entered service in 1769.
{{S-start}} {{Succession box | title = [[Procurator General (Russia)|Procurator General]] of the [[Governing Senate]] | years = 1798–1799 | with = | before = [[Alexis Kourakine]] | after = [[Alexander Andreivitch Beklechov]] }} {{Succession box | title = Procurator General of the Governing Senate<br>([[Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire|Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire]]) | years = 1803–1810 | with = | before = [[Gavrila Derzhavin]] | after = [[Ivan Dmitriev]] }} {{Succession box | title = [[Russian Council of Ministers|Chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers]] | years = 1816–1827 | with = | before = [[Nikolay Saltykov]] | after = [[Viktor Kochubey]] }} {{S-end}} {{Authority control}}
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