Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov

[1] Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov was introduced to Catherine by Grigory Potemkin after he had been vetted by Praskovja Bruce.

[1] Catherine called Korsakov Pyrrhus because of his classic beauty, his singing and his violin playing.

It is believed that she was directed to the right room by Aleksandra von Engelhardt on the order of Potemkin, who wished for the fall of both Rimsky-Korsakov and Bruce.

[2] Rimsky-Korsakov lived the rest of his life in Brattsevo Estate, near Moscow, in a relationship with the married Countess Stroganova (1754–1815) (née Princess Ekaterina Petrovna Trubetskaya), the wife of Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov.

Together, they had four children (who were given the name Ladomirsky, the name of an extinct Polish noble family, and were ennobled by an imperial ukaze on 11 November 1798): He died on 31 July 1831 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.