Anisya Kirillovna Tolstaya (died 1732), was a Russian noblewoman, lady-in-waiting[1][2] and royal mistress to Tsar Peter the Great.[3]
Life
She was likely related to empress Natalya Naryshkina. She served as maid-of-honour to Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia. After the marriage of Tsar Peter to the future Catherine I of Russia, she was appointed to the court of empress Catherine. In 1717, she belonged to the entourage accompanying Peter and Catherine to Europe. She was reportedly for a time a mistress to Peter, which gave her some influence.
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia appealed not just to Catherine but also to Anisya, as his mother's relative, to ask his father for mercy during his conflict and arrest.
In culture
She is a character in A. Tolstoy's "Peter the Great".[4]
References
- ^ Неелов, В. И. (2012-04-25). Неѣловщина. Том 1. Материалы к истории рода Нееловых. Часть 1 (in Russian). Neelov Vladimir. ISBN 978-5-91722-103-8.
- ^ Юсупова, З.А. (2018). "К истории изучения езидизма, "Письменные памятники Востока"". Письменные памятники Востока (2): 56–66. doi:10.7868/s1811806218020048. ISSN 1811-8062. S2CID 188840327.
- ^ "From an illiterate maid to an illiterate empress: why Peter I idolized Catherine I, and hated the people. Russian Empress Catherine I". goaravetisyan.ru. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
- ^ Gasiorowska, Xenia (1979). The Image of Peter the Great in Russian Fiction. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 150–151. ISBN 978-0-299-07690-0.
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