page_title: Catherine Yurievskaya
section_title: France and Russia
hierarchical_section_title: Catherine Yurievskaya / France and Russia
caption_attribution_description: English: Georg, Olga&amp; Ekaterina Yurievskie -the children of Alexandre II of Russia &amp; Ekaterina Dolgorukaja Русский: Георгий (1872-1913),Ольга (1873-1925) и Екатерина (1878-1959) Юрьевские - дети императора Александра II и Екатерины Долгорукой
context_page_description: Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Yurievskaya was the natural daughter of Alexander II of Russia by his mistress, Princess Catherine Dolgorukov. In 1880, she was legitimated by her parents' morganatic marriage. In her own family, she was known as Katia.
  After her father's assassination in 1881, her mother brought her up in France. She was married there in 1901, having two sons, but was widowed in 1910. Her second marriage came during the First World War in Russia, and she suffered hardships during the ensuing Russian Civil War. In the 1920s, she became a professional singer. In 1932, she moved to the UK where she settled on Hayling Island in Hampshire, where she died in 1959.
context_section_description: Catherine's mother took a house in Paris and others on the French Riviera. In 1891, she bought a house in Nice which she called the Villa Georges, in the boulevard Dubouchage. In France the family was able to afford some twenty servants and a private railway carriage.
  On 18 October 1901, Catherine married at Biarritz Prince Alexander Vladimirovich Baryatinsky (1870–1910). They had two sons, Andrei (born in Paris on 2 August 1902, died 1931) and Alexander (born at Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, on 24 March 1905 died 1992). They lived at number 6, Place des États-Unis. Baryatinski died in 1910, at the age of thirty-nine.
  Catherine's brother George died, after a long illness, on 13 September 1913 in Marburg, Hesse, and was buried at St Elizabeth's,  Wiesbaden.
  On 6 October 1916, at Yalta, Catherine married secondly Prince Sergei Platonovich Obolensky (1890–1978), son of General Prince Platon Sergeievich Obolensky. At the time of the Revolution of 1917, she was still in Russia, and it was later reported that she had "walked for miles without food during the Revolution, suffering great hardship". Her new husband, Obolensky, fought in the White Army during the Russian Civil War.
  Catherine's mother died in 1922, leaving only her house in Nice, the Villa Georges. The family's other houses, in Paris, Neuilly, and Biarritz had been sold at a loss over the years. The same year, Obolensky left Catherine for Alice Astor, the daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. After divorcing him in 1923, Catherine became a professional singer, with a repertoire of some two hundred songs in English, French, Russian and Italian.
caption: Catherine with her brother George and sister Olga
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