Nikolai Kulikovsky
Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia. Olga wanted to divorce her first husband, Duke Peter Alexandrovitch of Oldenburg, and marry Kulikovskys, but neither her husband nor her brother, the Tsar, would allow it. During World War I, Olga eventually obtained a divorce and married Kulickovsky. Her brother was deposed in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Kulikovich was dismissed from the army by the revolutionary government. He became a farmer and businessman in Denmark, where they lived until after World War II. In 1948, they emigrated to Canada as agricultural immigrants, but within four years of their arrival they had sold
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia. He was born into a military landowning family from the south of the Russian Empire, and followed the family tradition by entering the army. Olga wanted to divorce her first husband, Duke Peter Alexandrovitch of Oldenburg, and marry Kulikovskys, but neither her husband nor her brother, the Tsar, would allow it. During World War I, Olga eventually obtained a divorce and married Kulickovsky. Her brother was deposed in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Kulikovich was dismissed from the army by the revolutionary government. He became a farmer and businessman in Denmark, where they lived until after World War II. In 1948, they emigrated to Canada as agricultural immigrants, but within four years of their arrival they had sold their farm and moved into a small suburban house. He died in 1958, aged 76, and was buried in St. Petersburg, where he had lived with his wife and two sons since 1903. He is buried in the St. Petersburg Cathedral. He also had a son with his second wife, the Grand Duchess of Russia, Princess Olga of Moscow, and a daughter-in-law with her third husband, Grand Duke Michael of Moscow. He had two sons with Olga, one of whom died in a car crash in the early 1990s, and one with his third wife, Princess Alexandra of Moscow and the other with his fourth wife, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia and the Countess of Tatarstan.
He has a daughter with Princess Alexandra, who was married to Grand Duke Alexander II of Russia from 1913 until his death in 1998, and had two children with his fifth wife, Prince Alexander of Tarpan. He leaves behind a wife and a son. He and Olga had two daughters with his first wife, who died in 2005, and three sons with his current wife, Lady Olga Alexsandrovna, who he died with in 2008, aged 80. He never had any children with the second wife. He left a fortune to his children, including a son and two step-daughters, but never remarried or had any more children of his own. His last will and testament was signed on November 16, 1916, in Kiev, the day before he was to be deposed by his brother, Tsar Nicholas II. He later died in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1968. He will be buried in a plot of land owned by Olga’s brother, Duke Alexander-Vasilievskiy, in the Kievo-Volynskoye Cemetery, near the city of Kiev, Ukraine. His son, Alexander, died in 2011, and his daughter died in 2012, at the age of 89.
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