EUDOXIA LOPUKHINA (1669-1731)  , tsaritsa, first See also:

• CONSORT (Lat. consors, a companion)

consort of See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter the See also:

• GREAT

Great, was the daughter of the boyarin See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

Theodore Lopukhin . Peter, then a youth of seventeen, married her on the 27th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1689 at the command of his See also:

• MOTHER

mother, who hoped to wean him from the wicked ways of the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German suburb of See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow by See also:

• WEDDING

wedding him betimes to a See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady who was as pious as she was beautiful . The See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage was in every way unfortunate . Accustomed from her See also:

• INFANCY

infancy to the monastic seclusion of the terem, or See also:

• WOMEN

women's See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter, Eudoxia's See also:

• MENTAL

mental See also:

• HORIZON (Gr. 6pfTwv, dividing)

horizon did not extend much beyond her See also:

• EMBROIDERY (M.E. embrouderie, from O. Fr. embroder, Mod. Fr. broder)

embroidery-See also:

• FRAME

frame or her illuminated service-See also:

• BOOK

book . From the first her society bored Peter unspeakably, and after the See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth of their second, See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short-lived son See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander, he practically deserted her . In 1698 she was unceremoniously sent off to the Pokrovsky monastery at Suzdal for refusing to consent to a See also:

• DIVORCE

divorce, though it was not till See also:

• JUNE

June 1699 that she disappeared from the See also:

• WORLD

world beneath the See also:

• HOOD,
• HOOD, JOHN BELL (1831–1879)
• HOOD, SAMUEL HOOD, VISCOUNT (1724–1816)
• HOOD, SIR SAMUEL (1762-1814)
• HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845)
• HOOD, TOM (1835–1874)

hood of See also:

• SISTER

sister Elena . In the monastery, however, she was held in high See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour by the See also:

• ARCHIMANDRITE (from Gr. apxcov, a ruler, and µav3pa, a fold or monastery)

archimandrite; the nuns persisted in regarding her as the lawful empress; and she was permitted an extraordinary degree of See also:

• LATITUDE (Lat. latitudo, latus, broad)

latitude, unknown to Peter, who dragged her from her enforced See also:

• RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

retreat in 1718 on a See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of See also:

• ADULTERY (from Lat. adulterium)

adultery . As the See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence was collected by Peter's creatures, it is very doubtful whether Eudoxia was guilty, though she was compelled to make a public See also:

• CONFESSION (Lat. confessio, from confiteor, acknowledge, confess)

confession . She was then divorced and See also:

• CON

con-signed to the remote monastery of See also:

• LADOGA (formerly NEvo)

Ladoga . Here she remained for ten years till the See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of her See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson, Peter II., when the reactionaries proposed to appoint her See also:

• REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent . She was escorted with great ceremony to Moscow in 1728 and exhibited to the See also:

• PEOPLE

people attired in the splendid, old-fashioned See also:

• ROBES (Fr. robe, Late Lat. roba, raupa, meaning (1)

robes of a tsaritsa; but years of rigid seclusion had dulled her wits, and her best See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends soon convinced themselves that a See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent was a much more suitable See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place for her than a See also:

• THRONE

throne . An See also:

• ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance of 6o,000 roubles a See also:

• YEAR

year was accordingly assigned to her, and she disappeared again in a monastery at Moscow, where she died in 1731 .

See See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Nisbet See also:

• BAIN, ALEXANDER (1818-1903)
• BAIN, ANDREW GEDDES (1797-1864)

Bain, Pupils of Peter the Great (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1895), chaps, ii. and iv.; and The First Romanovs (London, 1905), chaps. viii. and xii . (R . N .