Steamy love letters of Tsar go on sale
BERLIN -- The intimate details of a royal love affair were exposed yesterday when seven erotically charged letters between Tsar Alexander II and his mistress went on sale in Germany. "I am expecting to make love three times tomorrow," writes Ekaterina Dolgorukaya in a letter to the Tsar dated 1871.
She goes on to describe, in remarkably free terms, how she was preparing to sleep with the Russian emperor. "I want to drink your juices," she says, slipping a Russian phrase into a letter written largely in French.
Alexander —- known as “the Liberator” because of his decision to emancipate the Russian serfs —- was married to Princess Marie of Hesse, who bore him six sons and two daughters. Having met Ekaterina "Katya" Dolgorukaya —- descended from a noble Muscovite family —- as a schoolgirl, he decided to install her as a mistress in 1866. She was then 19, he was 48 and already an avid collector of erotica. Katya was given an apartment in the Winter Palace of St Petersburg, a secret staircase connecting her rooms with those of the Tsar.
[Alexander II reigned from 1855 until he was assassinated in 1881. He and Katya had a morganatic marriage in 1880. They had four children, one of whom lived until 1959.]
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She goes on to describe, in remarkably free terms, how she was preparing to sleep with the Russian emperor. "I want to drink your juices," she says, slipping a Russian phrase into a letter written largely in French.
Alexander —- known as “the Liberator” because of his decision to emancipate the Russian serfs —- was married to Princess Marie of Hesse, who bore him six sons and two daughters. Having met Ekaterina "Katya" Dolgorukaya —- descended from a noble Muscovite family —- as a schoolgirl, he decided to install her as a mistress in 1866. She was then 19, he was 48 and already an avid collector of erotica. Katya was given an apartment in the Winter Palace of St Petersburg, a secret staircase connecting her rooms with those of the Tsar.
[Alexander II reigned from 1855 until he was assassinated in 1881. He and Katya had a morganatic marriage in 1880. They had four children, one of whom lived until 1959.]