Grigory Teplov

Grigory Nikolayevich Teplov (Russian: Григорий Николаевич Теплов; 20 November 1717 in Pskov, Russia – 30 March 1779 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian philosopher, composer, historian and academic administrator of lowly birth who managed the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

On his return to Russia, Aleksey Razumovsky, the secret spouse of Empress Elisabeth, asked him to look after his junior brother Kirill.

[1] He published a Russian translation of Christian Wolff's writings, quarrelled with Mikhail Lomonosov, persecuted Gerhardt Friedrich Müller for his Normanist theories, and publicly berated Vasily Trediakovsky.

[1] Mindful of Chancellor Bestuzhev's advice, Catherine bestowed upon him the title of senator but effectively removed him from power.

Giacomo Casanova describes him as the man "whose vice was that he loved boys, and his virtue that he had strangled Peter III".