The alleged lover of Natalia Alexeievna was Count Andrei Razumovski (b.1752), the nephew of Alexis Razoumovski, Empress Elizabeth's 'Night Emperor'. He had been in command of one of the three ships which had been sent to convey the Princess to Russia and had formed part of the junior court surrounding the Grand Ducal couple. Catherine had already tried, in a rather clumsy way, to separate him from Paul and Natalia as she was intensely suspicious of any courtiers who attached themselves to her son rather than to herself, but without success. Paul "protested and declared that he would never allow a friend to be taken away from him". When Natalia died, however, Catherine seized her correspondence - expecting to find conspiratorial material - but instead found whatever she used to accuse Razumovski of being Natalia's lover. Razumovski protested his innocence, which of course was not believed, but at this point in time it's difficult to know what exactly the correspondence consisted of and how Catherine used it. Would Razumovski have taken the line he did if the evidence had been clearly compromising? At any event, Paul believed it and would not see him, and Catherine sent Razumovski into at Reval, later appointing him Russian Minister at Naples. In 1799, he was allowed back into Russia, so Paul obviously forgave him (or hadn't really believed him to be guilty in the longer term but had gone along with Catherine in his first grief and sense of betrayal). Under Alexander I, Razumovski had a very distinguished diplomatic career in Copenhagen, Stockholm and most importantly, in Vienna. In Vienna he married a Lobkowicz and was a patron of Beethoven, commissioning three string quartets from him (Razumovski played the violincello); he stayed on in Vienna after his diplomatic appointment had finished, and built a neoclassical palace in Vienna which alas burnt down after a ball in 1814. It was rebuilt, with a loan from Alexander I, but Razumovski was shattered and lived in seclusion in Vienna until his death in 1836.