Katia – Blue Demon of Tsar Alexandre II or the Uncrown Empress
Katia – Blue Demon of Tsar Alexandre II or the Uncrown Empress

Summary/Abstract: The paper addresses the subject of the love story and morganatic marriage of Ekaterina Dolgorukova and Tsar Alexandre II of Russia, focusing on images of Katia in literature and movies. Analyzing literary sources such as the novel of Martha Bibesco’s Katia le démon bleu du Tsar Alexandre (1938), published under the pseudonym of Lucile Decaux and Maurice Paléologue’s Le roman tragique de l'empereur Alexandre II. Avec sept portraits (1923) as gendered expressions of the couple’s relation, we aim at retracing their reception through translations and film images up to nowadays.

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