Prince Nikolai Petrovich Demidov-Lopukhin (Russian - Николай Петрович Лопухин-Демидов; 27 April 1836, Saint Petersburg – 18 December 1910, Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi) was a Russian nobleman and general.
The eldest son of Pyotr Grigoryevich Demidov (1807–1862) and his wife Elizaveta Nikolaevna Bezobrazova, Nikolai was a godson of Nicholas I of Russia. He joined a guards cavalry regiment in 1853, and on 20 November 1854 was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant. From 1863 to 1864 he fought in the repression of the January Uprising. In 1870 he was promoted to colonel.
After the death of his relation, Prince Pavel Petrovich Lopukhin (son of Pyotr Lopukhin) in 1873, he inherited the princely title of the Lopukhin family and added its surname to his own. He fought in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), and, on 30 August 1880, was promoted to major general, followed by lieutenant general in May 1890.
He married Olga Valerianovna Stolypina (1841–1926), the couple had four children that reached adulthood :
Son general Alexandr Nikolajevitch Demidoff, 2nd Prince Lopukhin-Demidov, married in 1904 Natalia Dmitrievna Naryshkina (1886–1957), daughter of Dimitri Konstantinovich Naryshkin (1853-1918) and Countess Helene von Toll (1855-1931).[2] They moved with their family to Finland after the Russian 1917 revolution. They owned Anttolanhovi manor near Mikkeli.
They had five sons that reached adulthood:
They had two children: