Eudoxia Lopukhina

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In 1696, during his prolonged journey to Western Europe, Peter asked his Naryshkin relatives to persuade Eudoxia to enter a monastery. This could not be effected until 1698, when she was finally banished to the Intercession Convent of Suzdal.^[2]

Later years

The local hegumen, however, allowed her to live there much as a lay woman would. She even found herself a lover, an officer named Stepan Glebov. Nine years later, when Peter the Great learned about their affair, he sentenced Glebov to execution by impalement.^[3] According to the legend, the Emperor also ordered the soldiers to force Eudoxia to watch her lover's death.^[3]

Gradually, Eudoxia and her son became the centre of opposition to Peter's reforms, primarily from the church officials. In his sermons,

In 1727, her grandson Peter II ascended the Russian throne and immediately recalled her to Moscow. She returned to the former capital with a great pomp and was allowed to keep her own court at the Novodevichy Convent until her death in 1731.

After the death of Peter II, who had died before her in 1730, she was among the nominated candidates for the new monarch, but she declined, in favor of her niece-in-law

Issue

By Peter I, she had three sons:

• Natalya (1714–1728) and the future tsar Peter II
  (1715–1730).
• Grand Duke Alexander (Preobrazhnskoe, 3 October 1691 – Moscow, 14 May 1692). He was baptized on 11 November 1691 in the
  Moscow Kremlin
  . The father, in defiance of his wife from whom he was now completely estranged, did not take part in the funeral.
• Grand Duke Paul (1693–1693)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eudoxia Lopukhina.

• Full genealogy of the Lopukhin family
• Evdokiya's profile at Geni