Aleksey Okhotnikov

Aleksey Yakovlevich Okhotnikov, also Alexis Okhotnikov in foreign sources, was a Russian Chevalier Guard officer best known for being a secret lover of Russian Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna and a rumored father of her short-lived daughter, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna. The brief, thought to be a sole one, affair of the Empress was kept in close secret and was only uncovered to a wider public from the diaries of the Empress after her death.²