In the center of the history of the relationship between Emperor Alexander II and Princess Catherine Dolgorukova. Their complicated romance began when she was 18 and he was 49. And if the age difference was more a factor in their convergence, then the difference in positions, it seems, could not allow them to connect. But Russian emperors have always decided who is equal to them. And this woman came close to Alexander II for 16 years. The personal life of the liberating king was never boring: in
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