Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov

Prince Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov (, tr. ; 1868–1918) was an advisor to Russian Emperor Nicholas II, and a Marshal from 1914 to 1917. After the arrest of the Russian Imperial Family following the February Revolution, he voluntarily accompanied the family into internal exile in Tsarskoe Selo and later Tobolsk. He was barred from joining them in Yekaterinburg in April 1918, and was killed by order of the Bolshevik government in that July. Early life Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov was born in 1868 as the second son of Prince Alexander Vasilievich Dolgorukov (1839-1878) and his wife, Princesss Maria Sergeievna Dolgorukova (1847-1936). Career