Роман Императора

by Maurice Paléologue, Морис Палеолог

This is the earliest full-scale account of the romance between the already married Tsar Alexander II and the breathtakingly beautiful Princess Catherine Dolgoruky, who was his ward and less than half his age. The Tsar and the Princess became paramours, and the Princess bore Tsar Alexander II three children out of wedlock. When Tsar Alexander II's long ailing wife died in 1880, Tsar Alexander II married his long-time paramour and mistress in the greatest secrecy just months before a group of terrorists assassinated him in a bomb attack in March 1881. Had Tsar Alexander II not been assassinated he most assuredly would have raised Catherine Dolgoruky to Tsarina (Empress of All the Russias). The princess and her children were subsequently created Princess/Prince Yourievsky. The Princess lived out the rest of her long life in the south of France, where she forever mourned her late husband. This is a wonderful account originally written in French by Maurice Paleologue, the last French Ambassador to the Russian Imperial Court. The book was later translated into English of which this copy is the second english-language edition. A truly remarkable story, this is a hard-to-find title

128 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1923

About the author

Maurice Paléologue (1859 -1944) was a French diplomat, historian, and essayist. He played a major role in the French entry into the First World War, when he was the French ambassador to Russia and supported the Russian mobilization against Germany that led to world war.