Alexandra (von Engelhardt) Branicka (1754 - 1838)

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Died 15 Sep 1838 at about age 84 in Bila Tserkva, Vasil'kov, Kiev, Russian Empire

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Biography

Aleksandra Katarzyna was the wife of Franciszek Ksawery Branicki and the daughter of Wasyl von Engelhardt and Maria Potemkina.

Henryk Mościcki claimed that she was the first-born, illegitimate daughter of the Grand Duchess, the future Empress Catherine, and Count Sergei Saltykov. According to other data, considered to be rumors, she was supposed to be the illegitimate daughter of Catherine II from her relationship with Count Sergei Saltykov - immediately after birth, Empress Elizabeth was to exchange her for a male infant of unknown (or "Chukhon", i.e. Estonian) origin, who was recognized as a son Catherine, later Emperor Paul I Romanov.

She was the niece and later one of the lovers of Grigory Potemkin, the favorite of Catherine the Great.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Branitskaya
• Henryk Stanisław Mościcki (1936). "Branicka, Aleksandra". Polish Biographical Dictionary (in Polish). Vol. 2. Kraków: Polish Academy of Learning – Skład Główny w Księgarniach Gebethner i Wolff. pp. 393–396. Reprint: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Kraków 1989; ISBN 8304032910
• Volkov, Nikolay Egorovich: The court of the Russian emperors in his past and present: At 4 o'clock / Comp. NE Volkov. - St. Petersburg: print of R. Golike, 1900. (Волков Николай Егорович: Двор Русских Императоров В Его Прошлом И Настоящем)