Instead, on hearing that Empress Elizabeth had suffered a severe relapse in health, Apraksin crossed the Neman River and returned to Russia, intending to support the heir to the throne (the future Peter III of Russia, who represented the interests of Frederick II of Prussia) in the event of the Empress's death.
Stepan Levitsky | Stepan Bandera | Stepan Makarov | Stepan Krasovsky | Russian coast defense ship General Admiral Graf Apraksin | Alfred Stepan | Vasily Fyodorovich Trutovsky | Stepan Topal | Stepan Shevyryov | Stepan Khilkov | Stepan Khalturin | Stepan Balmashov | Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov | Ivan Fyodorovich Koshkin | Fyodor Apraksin | Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov |