Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia

Olga Alexandrovna was the youngest child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II. In 1901, at 19, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual. During the First World War, the Grand Duchess served as an army nurse and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. At the downfall of the Romanovs in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled with her husband and children to Crimea, where they lived under the threat of assassination. Olga escaped revolutionary Russia with her second husband and their two sons in February 1920. In 1948, feeling threatened by Joseph Stalin’s regime, Olga and her immediate family relocated to a farm

About Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia in brief

Olga Alexandrovna was the youngest child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II. She was raised at the Gatchina Palace outside Saint Petersburg. In 1901, at 19, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual. During the First World War, the Grand Duchess served as an army nurse and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. At the downfall of the Romanovs in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled with her husband and children to Crimea, where they lived under the threat of assassination. Olga escaped revolutionary Russia with her second husband and their two sons in February 1920. She led a simple life: raising her two sons, working on the farm and painting. In 1948, feeling threatened by Joseph Stalin’s regime, Olga and her immediate family relocated to a farm in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. She died aged 78, seven months after her older sister, Xenia, in November 1960. In her lifetime, she painted over 2,000 works of art, which provided extra income for both her family and the charitable causes she supported. At her death and afterwards, she was widely labelled the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia. She is buried in the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, along with her brother Nicholas II and her mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Her funeral was held on November 24, 2011. Her husband, Colonel Kulikovsky, died there in 1958, and Olga moved with friends to a small apartment in East Toronto, Canada, two years later, as her health deteriorated.

The Grand Duchess was deeply religious and became an expert on Easter and Christmas. The family was deeply involved in religious and religious matters, and became expert riders and riders at an early age. Her children were taught English and French, as well as drawing and dancing. She became an early expert on Christmas and Easter times, and was an expert rider and rider at early times. She also taught her children English, French and equestrianism, and the children became expert rider riders at early age and became experts at Christmas. Her mother, advised by her sister, Alexandra, Princess of Wales, placed Olga in the care of an English nanny, Elizabeth Franklin. The Russian imperial family was a frequent target for assassins, so for safety reasons Olga was raised in the country palace of GATCHina, about 50 miles west ofSaint Petersburg. Her parents and their four older children were eating lunch in the dining-car when the train lurched violently and came off the rails. On 29 October, their return train approached the small town of Borki at speed. Survivors claimed the Tsar crawled out from beneath the crushed roof so that the others escape; a story subsequently considered unbelievable. There were 21 fatalities, but it was widely and falsely believed that two bombs had been planted on the line.

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