Even after Praskovia was banned from the court in 1779, after having had an affair with the Empress' lover, Bruce stayed in favour and received new posts. Bruce first became simultaneously Governor-General of Moscow[2] and Saint Petersburg Governorates between 1784 and 1786, and then of Saint Petersburg only until 1791.[1] He died the same year, without male offspring, and with him ended the line of the Russian counts Bruce.[3] His only daughter Catherine died childless in 1829.
