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'''Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia''' ('''Olga Alexandrovna Romanova''', '''Ольга Александровна Романова ''') (], ] - ], ]) was a Grand Duchess of ] and the younger sister of Russian Tsar ]. | ||
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Born on ], ] in ], ], she was the youngest daughter of ] and his empress, ], formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark. | ||
| ⚫ | At age 19 her marriage was arranged to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, but it ended in divorce. During ], she worked as a medical nurse on the Russian front and, in November 1916, would marry Captain ] with whom she would have two sons, Tikhon Kulikovsky and Juri Kulikovsky. | ||
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| Like her father, the Tsar, Olga preferred a quiet life to the grand banquets and lavish entertaining of the nobility. She played the violin and painted as a hobby for most of her life. After the 1917 Revolution, stripped of most of their possessions, she and her husband fled Russia and lived in ] until 1948. They lived with Olga's mother until she died in 1928. During her time there, in 1925, Olga traveled to ], ] to identify the woman claiming to be ], daughter of her brother, the ]. Olga, who had been close to Anastasia when the girl was a child, changed her mind numerous times as to the identity of the woman. Eventually, she decided that the woman, ], was not her niece, saying, "she is not who she believes herself to be." | |||
| Like her father, the Tsar, Olga preferred a quiet life to the grand banquets and lavish entertaining of the nobility. She played the violin and painted as a hobby for most of her life. After the 1917 Revolution, stripped of most of their possessions, she and her husband fled Russia and lived in Denmark until 1948. | |||
| ⚫ | Following ], ] propaganda machine declared that Grand Duchess Olga had conspired with ] against Russia during the war. In |
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| They lived with Olga's mother until she died in 1928. During her time there, in 1925, Olga traveled to ], ] to identify the woman claiming to be ], daughter of her brother, the ]. | |||
| Olga, who had been close to Anastasia when the girl was a child, changed her mind numerous times as to the identity of the woman. Eventually, she decided that the woman, ], was not her niece, saying, "she is not who she believes herself to be." | |||
| ⚫ | Following ], ] propaganda machine declared that Grand Duchess Olga had conspired with ] against Russia during the war. In 1948, with threats against her life, amidst the rising tensions of the ], she and her husband left ], moving to ]. | ||
| ⚫ | When she was 66 she and her husband bought a rural property about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of ]. Although she lived with the horrific memories of her brother's and his entire family's murder, Olga never lived with any delusions of grandeur or dreams of a Romanov return to power. | ||
| When her husband passed away in 1958, she moved to an apartment above a hairdressing salon in Toronto where she died in near poverty on ], ], aged 78. | |||
| The Grand Duchess is interred next to her husband in ], Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | |||
| ⚫ | When she was 66 she and her husband bought a rural property about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of ]. Although she lived with the horrific memories of her brother's and his entire family's murder, Olga never lived with any delusions of grandeur or dreams of a Romanov return to power. |
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Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, Ольга Александровна Романова ) (13 June, 1882 - 24 November, 1960) was a Grand Duchess of Russia and the younger sister of Russian Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Born on 13 June, 1882 in Peterhof, Russia, she was the youngest daughter of Tsar Alexander III and his empress, Maria Fyodorovna, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark.
At age 19 her marriage was arranged to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, but it ended in divorce. During World War I, she worked as a medical nurse on the Russian front and, in November 1916, would marry Captain Nikolai Kulikovsky with whom she would have two sons, Tikhon Kulikovsky and Juri Kulikovsky.
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Like her father, the Tsar, Olga preferred a quiet life to the grand banquets and lavish entertaining of the nobility. She played the violin and painted as a hobby for most of her life. After the 1917 Revolution, stripped of most of their possessions, she and her husband fled Russia and lived in Denmark until 1948.
They lived with Olga's mother until she died in 1928. During her time there, in 1925, Olga traveled to Berlin, Germany to identify the woman claiming to be Anastasia, daughter of her brother, the Tsar Nikolai II.
Olga, who had been close to Anastasia when the girl was a child, changed her mind numerous times as to the identity of the woman. Eventually, she decided that the woman, Anna Anderson, was not her niece, saying, "she is not who she believes herself to be."
Following World War II, Stalin's propaganda machine declared that Grand Duchess Olga had conspired with Germany against Russia during the war. In 1948, with threats against her life, amidst the rising tensions of the Cold War, she and her husband left Denmark, moving to Canada.
When she was 66 she and her husband bought a rural property about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Toronto, Ontario. Although she lived with the horrific memories of her brother's and his entire family's murder, Olga never lived with any delusions of grandeur or dreams of a Romanov return to power.
When her husband passed away in 1958, she moved to an apartment above a hairdressing salon in Toronto where she died in near poverty on 24 November, 1960, aged 78.
The Grand Duchess is interred next to her husband in York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The funeral for the last Grand Duchess of Russia was attended by numerous Russian immigrants to Canada who arranged a dignified guard of honor.
Newspapers described her death as the end of Imperial Russia.
External links
- The Kulikovsky Family Web site of the descendants of the Grand Duchess Olga.