Princess Catherine Dolgoruki
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Princess Yekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukaya (In Russian Княжна Екатерина Михаиловна Долгорукая) (14 November, 1847 - 15 February, 1922)
Catherine was the daughter of Prince Mikhail Dolgoruky and Vera Visnevskaya. She was a long-time mistress of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and later, as his morganatic wife, was created Princess Yurievskaya.
Alexander and Yekaterina already had three children when they formed a morganatic marriage on July 6, 1880, less than a month after the death of the emperor's wife, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, on June 8. A fourth child would be born to them before his death. Yekaterina became a widow with the assassination of Alexander II on 1 March, 1881 by members of Narodnaya Volya.
Yekaterina and Alexander had four children:
- Georgi Alexandrovich Yurievsky (12 May, 1872 - 13 September, 1913). Married Alexandra of Oldenburg, Countess von Zarnekau, daughter of Konstantin Friedrich Peter, Duke of Oldenburg and Agrafena Djaparidze, Countess von Zarnekau.
- Olga Alexandrovna Yurievsky (7 November, 1874 - 10 August, 1925 Married Georg Nikolaus of Nassau, Count von Merenberg.
- Boris Alexandrovich Yurievsky (23 February - 11 April, 1876).
- Yekaterina Alexandrovna Yurievskaya (9 February, 1878 - 22 December, 1959). She married firstly Alexander Vladimirovich, Prince Baryatinsky and secondly Sergei Platonovich, Prince Obolensky.