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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.

エカチェリーナ2世（エカチェリーナ2世アレクセーエヴナ、ロシア語: Екатерина II Алексеевна, ラテン文字転写: Yekaterina II Alekseyevna （イカチリーナ・フタラーヤ・アレクセーエヴナ）、1729年4月21日（ロシア暦）/5月2日（グレゴリオ暦） - 1796年11月6日（ロシア暦）/11月17日（グレゴリオ暦））は、ロマノフ朝第8代ロシア皇帝（女帝）。在位は1762年6月28日（ロシア暦）/7月9日（グレゴリオ暦） - 1796年11月6日（ロシア暦）/11月17日（グレゴリオ暦）。夫は第7代皇帝ピョートル3世ならびにグリゴリー・ポチョムキン（秘密結婚）、子は第9代皇帝パーヴェル1世ほか。ドイツ語では「カトリーナ2世（Katharina II）」英語では「キャサリン2世（Catherine II.）」 とも呼ばれる。

プロイセンのフリードリヒ2世（大王）やオーストリアのヨーゼフ2世と共に啓蒙専制君主の代表とされる。ロシア帝国の領土をポーランドやウクライナに拡大し、大帝（ヴェリーカヤ、Вели́кая）と称される。

帝政時代にロシア帝国国立銀行が発行していた100ルーブル紙幣の肖像に描かれていたほか、沿ドニエストル共和国の国立銀行が発行する500沿ドニエストル・ルーブルにも描かれていた。