Catherine Dologorukov

• Alexander II took in a mistress who was slightly more serious than his other ones after his son died.
• Catherine Dolgorukov was 19 and the Tsar was 48 when they got together.
• Dolgorukov was the daughter of a deceased nobleman who was being educated at the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens after his death.
• Dolgorukov had 4 children with the Tsar and was given the title of Princess Yurievskaya when she married the Tsar after Marie of Hess died.

  Her children were given no right to the throne.