Editing Catherine the Great (section)

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| Miscarriage
|20 December 1752
|According to court gossip, this lost pregnancy was attributed to [[Sergei Saltykov]].<ref name="Troyat">Henri Troyat, ''Catherine the Great'' (English translation by Aidan Ellis). Oxford, Aidan Ellis, 1978, p. 58.</ref> 
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| Miscarriage
|30 June 1753
|This second lost pregnancy was also attributed to Saltykov;<ref name="Troyat"/> this time she was very ill for 13 days. Catherine later wrote in her memoirs: "...They suspect that part of the afterbirth has not come away ... on the 13th day it came out by itself".<ref>''The Memoirs of Catherine the Great''. Edited by M Morager,
London, Hamish-Hamilton, 1955, pp. 205–218.</ref><ref>Henri Troyat, ''Catherine the Great'' (English translation by Aidan Ellis). Oxford, Aidan Ellis, 1978, pp. 66–72.</ref>

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| '''[[Paul I of Russia|Paul (I) Petrovich]]'''<br />Emperor of Russia
|1 October 1754&nbsp;–<br /> 23 March 1801 (aged 46)
|Born at the Winter Palace, officially he was a son of Peter III but in her memoirs, Catherine implies very strongly that Saltykov was the biological father of the child, though she later retracted this.<ref>''Dangerous Liaisons.'' Liena Zagare, ''[[The New York Sun]]'', Arts & Letters, p. 15. 18 August 2005.</ref> He married firstly [[Natalia Alexeievna of Russia|Princess Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt]] in 1773 and had no issue. He married secondly, in 1776, [[Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg)|Princess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg]] and had issue, including the future [[Alexander I of Russia]] and [[Nicholas I of Russia]]. He succeeded as emperor of Russia in 1796 and was murdered at [[Saint Michael's Castle]] in 1801.
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| Anna Petrovna<br />Grand Duchess of Russia
|9 December 1757&nbsp;–<br /> 8 March 1759 (aged 15 months)
|Possibly the offspring of Catherine and Stanislaus Poniatowski, Anna was born at the Winter Palace between 10 and 11 o'clock;<ref>{{cite book|author=Rounding, Virginia|title=Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power|year=2008|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-37863-9|page=74}}</ref> she was named by Empress Elizabeth after [[Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia|her deceased sister]], against Catherine's wishes.<ref name="massie">{{cite book | title=Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman |url=https://archive.org/details/catherinegreatpo00mass_3 | publisher=Random House LLC | author=Massie, Robert K. | year=2012 | location=New York | page=[https://archive.org/details/catherinegreatpo00mass_3/page/203/mode/2up 203] | isbn=978-0-345-40877-8}}</ref> On 17 December 1757, Anna was baptised and received the Great Cross of the [[Order of Saint Catherine]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Lists of holders of the Imperial Russian Orders of St. Andrew, St. Catherine, St. Alexander Nevsky and St. Anne [Списки кавалерам российских императорских орденов Св. Андрея Первозванного, Св. Екатерины, Св. Александра Невского и Св. Анны с учреждения до установления в 1797 году орденского капитула] | publisher=Truten | author=Bantysh-Kamensky, Dmitri | year=2005 | location=Moscow | page=106 | isbn=978-5-94926-007-4}}</ref> Elizabeth served as godmother; she held Anna above the baptismal font and brought Catherine, who did not witness any of the celebrations, and Peter a gift of 60,000 rubles.<ref name="massie" /> Elizabeth took Anna and raised the baby herself, as she had done with Paul.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2010|p=40}}</ref> In her memoirs, Catherine makes no mention of Anna's death on 8 March 1759,<ref>{{cite book | title=The Memoirs of Catherine the Great | publisher=Random House LLC |author1=Catherine the Great |author2=Cruse, Markus |author3=Hoogenboom, Hilde | year=2006 | location=New York | page=214 | isbn=978-0-8129-6987-0}}</ref> though she was inconsolable and entered a state of shock.<ref>{{cite book | title=Catherine the Great | publisher=Profile Books | author=Dixon, Simon | location=London | pages=106–07 | isbn=978-1-84765-192-1| date=2010 }}</ref> Anna's funeral took place on 15 March, at [[Alexander Nevsky Lavra]]. After the funeral, Catherine never mentioned her dead daughter again.{{sfn|Alexander|1989|p=[https://archive.org/details/catherinegreatli0000alex/page/54 54]}}
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| '''[[Bobrinsky#The first Count Bobrinsky|Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky]]'''<br />[[Bobrinsky|Count Bobrinsky]]
|11 April 1762&nbsp;–<br /> 20 June 1813 (aged 51)
|Born at the Winter Palace, he was brought up at [[Novomoskovsk, Russia|Bobriki]]; his father was Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov. He married Baroness Anna Dorothea von Ungern-Sternberg and had issue. Created Count Bobrinsky in 1796, he died in 1813.
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| [[Elizabeth Temkina|Elizabeth Grigorieva Temkina]] (alleged daughter)
|13 July 1775&nbsp;–<br /> 25 May 1854 (aged 78)
|Born many years after the death of Catherine's husband, brought up in the [[Samoilov]] household as [[Grigory Potemkin]]'s daughter, and never acknowledged by Catherine, it has been suggested that Temkina was the illegitimate child of Catherine and Potemkin, but this is now regarded as unlikely.<ref name="Montefiore2010">{{harvnb|Montefiore|2010|page=159}}</ref>
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