Bezet a vezo, e 1703, pa oa aet da ober ur gwel da Menshikov en e di, en em gavas Pêr gant Martha, and shortly after, he took her as his own mistress. In 1705, she converted to Orthodoxy and changed her name to Yekaterina Alexeyevna. She and Darya accompanied Peter and Menshikov on their military excursions.