Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian Ольга Александровна Романова / Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, scientific transliteration Ol'ga Aleksandrovna Romanova; * 1 Junijul / June 13 1882greg in Peterhof, Russia, .. † November 24, 1960 in Toronto, Canada) was the youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Life
She was the youngest daughter of Tsar Alexander III. and born in St. Petersburg Tsar's palace, where they enjoyed a sheltered childhood with her siblings Nicholas II, Georgi, Alexander, Xenia and his wife Maria Feodorovna Mikhail. The Tsar put much value on an intimate family life, but he died early, and her older brother Nicholas followed him at a young age to the throne. Olga played the violin and loved to paint, generally they lived a reclusive life in St. Petersburg, until they, too, was drawn into the turmoil of the First World War and the Russian Revolutions with.
When her brother Mikhail its not befitting Mistress Natalia Sergejewna Scheremetjewskaja married abroad, she was outraged by the improper conduct of their brother. From then on, the family was split.
On 27 Julijul. / August 9 1901greg. she was married to Prince Peter of Oldenburg. The couple sat up an elaborate summer home in a Gagra on the Black Sea. Due to Peter's homosexuality and his lack of interest in his wife's marriage was unhappy.
After the outbreak of the First World War, the Grand Duchess began to work on the front as a nurse. There she met Nikolai Kulikowski, a Colonel in the Imperial Army, know. The marriage with Holstein -Gottorp was canceled on October 16, 1916, an imperial decree in November 1916, she married the socially unacceptable Nikolai Kulikowski. This marriage produced two sons, Tikhon and Guri.
After the October Revolution, she fled with her husband from Russia to Denmark to the home country of her mother. There she lived with her until Maria Feodorovna died in 1928. The fate of her family, especially that of her two brothers, Olga hit hard. With the emergence of rumors about the survival of her niece Anastasia she went to Berlin in 1925 and met with Anna Anderson, their supposed niece. Finally, they came to believe that Anna is not Anastasia.
During the Second World War, she was accused by Stalin's propaganda of conspiring with Germany. With the start of the Cold War, they no longer felt at home in Denmark and moved in 1948 in a small town near Toronto, Canada.
Olga died on November 24, 1960 in Toronto, and was laid to rest beside her husband Nikolai in a cemetery in the city.