Pyotr Zavadovsky

Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812) was a Russian Imperial statesman of Ukrainian origin.

Count Zavadovsky was named official secretary to Catherine in 1775 and became her lover on 2 January 1776.

Their relationship was tense because of the jealousy he felt toward Grigory Potemkin, who still had a relationship with Catherine, although Zavadovsky had replaced him in a sexual sense, and Potemkin was also said to have had difficulties accepting the situation.

He later became a senator and, at the end of his life, the minister of education under Czar Alexander I.

[2] In the 2019 HBO miniseries Catherine the Great Zavadovsky is portrayed by Thomas Doherty.