Ekaterina Alekseyevna Dolgorukova (1712–1747) was a Russian noble, enganged to tsar Peter II of Russia

Peter II of Russia

Pyotr II Alekseyevich was Emperor of Russia from 1727 until his death. He was the only son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his first wife Eudoxia Lopukhina, and Princess Charlotte, daughter of Duke Louis Rudolph of Brunswick-Lüneburg and sister-in-law of Charles VI,...

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Daughter of the Russian Prince Alexei Dolgorukov and niece to Prince Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov

Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov

Prince Vasiliy Lukich Dolgorukov was a Russian diplomat and minister who was the most powerful man in the country in the later years of Peter II's reign....

. She grew up with her brother Ivan in Warsaw

Warsaw

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 in the house of her grandfather Gregory Fjodorovitj. Reportedly, she and the Austrian ambassador Melissimo were in love with each other. The 19 November 1729, she was officially engaged to the tsar, given the title "Her Highness the Bride Empress", and installed the day after in the Golovinskii Palace. Melissimo was exiled. The wedding never took place because of Peter's death in 1730. Her family, the Dolgorukovs, prepared to installed her as ruling Empress in the manner of Catherine I of Russia

Catherine I of Russia

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, but did not succeed. She left the palace, and at the installement of empress Anna Ivanovna, she was deported with her family to Volosjin. In 1740, she was placed in the convent

Convent

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 of Tomsk

Tomsk

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. In 1741, she was freed by Empress Elizabeth of Russia and appointed lady-in-waiting

Lady-in-waiting

A lady-in-waiting is a female personal assistant at a royal court, attending on a queen, a princess, or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman from a family highly thought of in good society, but was of lower rank than the woman on whom she...

. In 1745, she married General Lieuntenant Count Bruce. She died of a cold in 1747.

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