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*'''[[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia]]''' ([[November 15]], [[1895]] - [[July 17]], [[1918]]) |
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*'''[[Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia]]''' ([[June 13]], [[1882]] - [[November 24]], [[1960]]) |
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| ⚫ | *'''Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia''' ([[September 3]], [[1851]] - [[June 18]], [[1926]]). A granddaughter of Emperor [[Nicholas I of Russia]], she married King [[George I of Greece|George I of the Hellenes]] in [[1867]]. They had many children, including [[Constantine I of Greece|King Constantine I of the Hellenes]] and [[Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark|Prince Andrew]], the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]]'s father. |
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'''Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia''' ('''''Ольга Николаевна Романова'''''), also known as '''Olishka''' ([[November 15]], [[1895]] - [[July 17]], [[1918]]), was the eldest daughter of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]]. |
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Olga was the most intelligent of Nicholas II's children. She was known for her compassionate heart and desire to help others, but also for her temper and blunt honesty. Before the [[First World War]], there was some discussion of a marriage between her and [[Carol II of Romania|Prince Carol of Romania]] (and also the [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|Prince of Wales]], later Edward VIII, was a suitor), but Olga did not like Carol and the plans were, in any event, put on hold upon the outbreak of war. The Russian parliament, before Nicholas's abdication, hoped for her to be [[regent]] for her brother [[Tsarevich Alexei of Russia|Aleksey]]. She was twenty-two when she was murdered with her family in the Ipatiev House in [[Ekaterinburg]] in [[1918]], after a year of imprisonment following the [[Russian Revolution|February/March Revolutions]] of [[1917]]. |
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In [[2001]], she and her family were [[Canonization|canonized]] by the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. |
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==External links== |
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* http://www.livadia.org/olishka/ |
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* http://www.livadia.org/trw/olga |
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[[Category:Saints|Olga of Russia]] |
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'''Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia''' ('''''Ольга Александровна Романова ''''') ([[June 13]], [[1882]] - [[November 24]], [[1960]]) was a Grand Duchess of [[Russia]] and the younger sister of Russian [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]]. |
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Born on [[June 13]], [[1882]] in [[Alexandria Palace]], [[Peterhof]], [[Russia]], she was the youngest daughter of [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]] and his empress, [[Marie Fyodorovna Romanova|Maria Fyodorovna]], formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark. |
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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 would marry Captain [[Nicholas Kulikovsky]] in November 1916, with whom she would have two sons, Tikhon and Gury. |
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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, living in [[Denmark]] with her mother until 1948. While there, in 1925, Olga traveled to [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] to identify the woman claiming to be [[Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova|Anastasia]], daughter of her brother, the [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]]. Olga, after changing her mind numerous times, eventually decided that the woman, [[Anna Anderson]], was not her niece, saying that "she is not who she believes herself to be." |
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Following [[World War II]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin's]] propaganda machine declared that Grand Duchess Olga Romanova had conspired with [[Germany]] against Russia during the war. With threats against her life, amidst the rising tensions of the [[Cold War]], in [[1948]] she and her husband left [[Denmark]], moving to [[Canada]]. |
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No longer young, she was 66, when she and her husband bought a rural property about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of the city of [[Toronto, Ontario]]. Although she lived with the horrific memories of her brother 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 a small house in Toronto where she died in near poverty on [[November 24]], [[1960]]. She is interred next to her husband in the [[York Cemetery]], Toronto. |
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The funeral for the last Grand Duchess of Russia was attended by numerous Russian immigrants to Canada who arranged a dignified guard of honor. |
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===Web Links=== |
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*[http://www.kulikovsky.com/Kulikovskyx.html The Kulikovsky Family] Web site of the descendants of the Grand Duchess Olga. |
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| ⚫ | '''Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia''' ([[September 3]], [[1851]] - [[June 18]], [[1926]]). A granddaughter of Emperor [[Nicholas I of Russia]], she married King [[George I of Greece|George I of the Hellenes]] in [[1867]]. They had many children, including [[Constantine I of Greece|King Constantine I of the Hellenes]] and [[Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark|Prince Andrew]], the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]]'s father. |
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Revision as of 03:17, 13 September 2004
Grand Duchess Olga of Russia could be:
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (November 15, 1895 - July 17, 1918)
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (June 13, 1882 - November 24, 1960)
- Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia (September 3, 1851 - June 18, 1926). A granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, she married King George I of the Hellenes in 1867. They had many children, including King Constantine I of the Hellenes and Prince Andrew, the Duke of Edinburgh's father.
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (September 11, 1822 - October 30, 1892). A daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, she married Crown Prince (later King) Karl of Württemberg in 1846. They had no children.
- Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (July 22, 1792 - January 26, 1795) was a daughter of Emperor Paul of Russia who died in infancy.
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