Yekaterina Alekseyevna Dolgoruky

…young tsar to his niece, Yekaterina Alekseyevna. Peter II died suddenly (1730) before the marriage could take place, and Dolgoruky’s involvement in intrigues concerning the succession—including the manufacture of a letter purporting to be the tsar’s last will in which he appointed Yekaterina his successor—resulted in his banishment (1730), first…