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Princess Catherine Dolgorukova (; 15 February 1922) was a Russian aristocrat and the daughter of Prince Michael Dolgorukov and Vera . Catherine was a long-time mistress of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and later, as his morganatic wife, was given the title of Princess Yurievskaya. Alexander and Catherine already had three children when they formed a morganatic marriage on , after the death of the Emperor's wife, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, on . A fourth child had died in infancy. Catherine became a widow with the assassination of Alexander II on by members of Narodnaya Volya.
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