Princess Catherine Yurievskaya
Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Yurievskaya was the natural daughter of Alexander II of Russia by his mistress, Princess Catherine Dolgorukova. In 1880, she was legitimated by her parents' morganatic marriage. In her own family, she was known as Katia.
Yuryevskaya, during her singing career
Catherine with her brother Prince George and sister Olga
Catherine's grave in the churchyard of St Peter's, Hayling Island, with new gravestone (2018), giving a New Style date of birth
Princess Catherine Dolgorukova was a Russian aristocrat and the daughter of Prince Michael Dolgorukov and Vera Vishnevskaya.
Photo by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky and Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky, 1880
Emperor Alexander II, Princess Catherine Dolgorukova with their children George and Olga
A teenage Catherine
Alexander II on his deathbed in 1881