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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.

Catherine II (en russe : Екатерина II) ou Catherine la Grande (Екатери́на Вели́кая), née Sophie Frédérique Augusta d'Anhalt-Zerbst le 2 mai 1729 à Stettin en Poméranie (aujourd'hui Szczecin en Pologne) et morte le 17 novembre 1796 à Saint-Pétersbourg, est l'épouse du prince puis empereur Pierre III (1728-1762). Elle devient impératrice régnante de Russie en 1762 jusqu'à sa mort, à la suite d'un coup d'État le 9 juillet 1762, suivi de l'incarcération de Pierre III, puis de son exécution le 17 juillet par un proche de Catherine.

Prénommée Catherine lors de son baptême orthodoxe, nécessaire avant son mariage avec le prince Pierre, elle devient impératrice consort après l'avènement de celui-ci (5 janvier 1762). Après son coup d'État, elle se fait proclamer « impératrice et autocrate de toutes les Russies ».

Elle règne personnellement sur l'Empire russe du 9 juillet 1762 à sa mort le 17 novembre 1796. Sous son règne, la Russie connaît une grande expansion territoriale vers l'ouest et le sud (plus de 500 000 km²), notamment à l'occasion des trois partages de la Pologne (1772, 1793 et 1795) et de guerres victorieuses contre l'Empire ottoman.