Nikolai Kulikovsky
Template:Infobox Russian Royalty Colonel Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (November 11, 1881-August 11, 1958) was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III. The descendant of a long line of military men and of an aristocratic background, he was a member of the Blue Cuirassier Regiment of the Imperial Russian Cavalry. In April 1903, during a military parade at the Pavlovsk Palace, the Grand Duchess Olga saw Kulikovsky and begged her older brother, the Grand Duke Michael, to arrange a casual luncheon between the two.[1] The Grand Duchess was already married to Duke Peter of Oldenburg, who was covertly considered by his friends and family to be homosexual. Two days after their brief meeting, Olga asked the Duke for an immediate divorce. The Duke replied that he would reconsider a divorce in seven years time, but because of their social status an immediate divorce would be a "preposterous" idea.[2]
In 1906, Duke Peter appointed Kulikovsky as his aide-de-camp, mainly to make Olga happy. The Duke allowed him to move into their 200-room Sergievskaya Street home in St. Petersburg.
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