imperial-russia:Princess Ekaterina Alexeievna Dolgorukaya (1712-1747) was the daughter of Prince Ale
imperial-russia:Princess Ekaterina Alexeievna Dolgorukaya (1712-1747) was the daughter of Prince Alexei Dolgorukov. She grea up to be very beautiful and caught the eye of a teenaged Emperor Peter II, so much so that he decided to marry her. On 19 November 1729, the seventee-year-old Ekaterina was formally engaged to Peter and given an unusual title of “Her Highness the Bride Empress”. However the impressionable Tsar soon lost interest in her, possibly because of intervention of his aunt (with whom he was actually in love), the splendidly glamorous Elizaveta Petrovna. Still, the wedding was to take place in January 1730. It was never to be. The groom was diagnosed with smallpox, and sensing the imminent tragedy the Dolgorukovs attempted to get him to sign a testament, which would make Ekaterina his heir. They were not allowed into the emperor’s quarters. On the day of the wedding - 30th January - the young boy passed away. The Dolgorukovs tried to install Ekaterina as ruling Empress, but were unsuccessful and the young girl was instead deported by new Empress Anna Ivanovna to Volosjin, and later to a convent in Tomsk. It was not an end for her though. When Elizaveta Petrovna took over, she freed the girl she once despised, brought her back to court and appointed her a lady-in-waiting. In 1745 Ekaterina was finally married - Lieutenant General Count Alexander Romanovich Bruce, however mere two years later she died of a cold. -- source link
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