Issue
- Emperor Paul I of Russia (1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husband, Emperor Peter III of Russia, but claimed by Catherine to be the son of her lover, Count Serge Saltykov
- Anna Petrovna (9 December 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King Stanislaus II of Poland
- Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, fathered by Catherine's lover, Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov
- Count Alexei Grigorievich Bobrinsky (11 April 1762 – 20 June 1813), also fathered by Orlov
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