‘Why has the feeling in the country changed against my father?’ she asked a lady-in-waiting, and then the latter replied that to explain that it would be necessary to go back to the reign of her grandfather who had countermanded all the progressive, constitutional plans of her great-grandfather Alexander II. According to Meriel Buchanan, the daughter of one of the British ambassador in Russia, Olga never forgot anything that she learned or what she had been told. "The eldest, Olga Nicolaevna, possessed a remarkably quick brain," recalled her Swiss tutor, Pierre Gilliard. Those who received the following invitation considered it a great honor: “Their Imperial Majesties invite[You] to dinner and a dancing party to be held on Thursday November 3rd, at 6:45 in the evening, at the Livadia Palace.” Dress for the occasion was strictly regulated: “Military cavaliers in frock coat with epaulets… Civilians in evening dress with white tie. However, the Empress would not hear of any courtship, because according to her point of view, Maria still belonged in the nursery. In 1898, the growing family finally moved away from Nicholas’s childhood home, the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg, where they resided with Olga’s grandmother, the Dowager Empress. At that point the gunmen had to leave the room because of smoke and toxic fumes from their guns and plaster dust their bullets had released from the walls. They ordered the carriage driver to stop in a shopping district and went into a store where they were not recognized because of their nursing uniforms. "[28], Olga idolized her father and wore a necklace with an icon of St. Nicholas on her chest. Olga Nikolaevna and foreigners help us to overcome the language barrier. Olga Nikolaevna Kulikovsky-Romanov (1926-2020) It is with a deep sense of sadness for me to announce that Mrs. Olga Kulikovsky-Romanov died today (2 May 2020) at the age of 94. Her wishes were not honored, much to the relief of her governess, Margaretta Eagar. All through the afternoon, Olga fretted over the guard, whom she called "her poor fellow. In November 1903, the 8-year-old Olga learned about death when her first cousin, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, died of typhoid fever while on a visit to the Romanovs at their Polish estate. [91] Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, one of her mother's ladies in waiting, recalled that Olga had to give up nursing and instead only supervised the hospital wards because she had "overtired herself" and became "nervous and anaemic. Olga Alexandrovna said she believed all four of her nieces bled more than was normal and believed they were carriers of the hemophilia gene like their mother, who inherited the trait from her maternal grandmother Queen Victoria. Brief Story of Grand Duchess Olga Romanov: Olga Nikolaevna was born on November 15, 1895. To her "beloved mama", with whom she had sometimes had a difficult relationship, she wrote a poem in April 1917, while the family was still imprisoned at Tsarskoye Selo: "You are filled with anguish for the sufferings of others. They are very friendly. She claimed that she was raped by Rasputin in the spring of 1910. A. Mossolov wrote that Olga was already seventeen, but still "she had the ways of a flapper", referring to her rough manners and liking for exuberant play. She reportedly also knew how much the Russian people disliked her mother and father. She set aside an allowance to cover the child's medical bills. “Grand Duchess” is the more common English translation. . Who was born in St. Petersburg Russia on November 15th 1895. Grand Duchess Tatiana and Dimitri malama.jpg 460 × 576; 42 KB. Boodts lived in a villa on Lake Como in Italy and it was claimed that she was supported by the former kaiser, Wilhelm II and by Pope Pius XII. [116] The Yekaterinburg region's chief forensic expert Nikolai Nevolin indicated the results would be compared against those obtained by foreign experts. "Olga is always most unamiable about every proposition, though may end by doing what I wish", wrote Alexandra to Nicholas on 13 March 1916. Yurovsky and Ermakov approached Olga and Tatiana, who were crouched against the room's rear wall, clinging to each other and screaming for their mother. [17], Although she loved Alexandra, Olga had a strained relationship with her mother. Although Rasputin's contacts with the children were completely innocent, Nicholas asked Rasputin to avoid going to the nurseries in the future to avoid further scandal. Azar, Helen. Victoria was delighted to meet her new great-granddaughter and spend time with her, posing for numerous photos. The Russian heir’s condition brought the tight-knit imperial family even closer together, but was also understandably a source of severe anxieties and despair for Olga’s parents. The Empress chose Maria to accompany her because "Olga's spirits were too low" and level-headed Tatiana was needed to take care of Alexei. Tatiana Nikolayevna came last carrying her little dog and struggling to drag a heavy brown valise. The six-year-old grand duchess, seriously ill for five long, weary weeks, was nursed by her mother and her governess, Margaret Eagar. Olga was the eldest child of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, the Czarina Alexandra. She is the eldest sister to Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei. "[101] At Tobolsk Olga and her sisters had sewn jewels into their clothing in hopes of hiding them from the Bolsheviks, since Alexandra had written to warn them that upon arrival in Ekaterinburg, she, Nicholas and Maria had been aggressively searched and belongings confiscated. "[73] The plans were, in any event, put on hold upon the outbreak of war in 1914. 415–19. She was given the nickname “Olishka” or “Olya”. Empress Alexandra, known to her family as Alix, was one of Queen Victoria’s favorite granddaughters. The girls took turns keeping Alexandra company and amusing Alexei, who was still confined to bed and suffering from pain after his latest injury. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna with her little brother, the long awaited Tsesarvich Alexei. [49] Nicholas ordered Rasputin to leave St. Petersburg for a time, much to Alexandra's displeasure, and Rasputin went on a pilgrimage to Palestine. November 3] 1895, November 16 after 1900 – July 17, 1918) was the oldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna. Of the imperial children, Olga was closest to her father, but she loved both her parents profoundly, as is evident from her diaries. [120], Eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Because Russia continued to use the Julian calendar in 1900 and later, her birthday ended up being celebrated on 16 November new style starting in 1900, Pierre Gilliard, Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, p. 20. Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters, p. 211, “Kalinin and Zemlyachenko, Romanovy i Krym, p. 260; Sazonov, Fateful Years, p. 109.”. Born at the Anichkov Palace where the newlywed Russian imperial couple initially settled, the first of four daughters, Olga Romanov was born “in the purple” – during the imperial reign of her parents. A very large baby girl joined the Romanov family on November 15 (Old Style: November 3) 1895, in St Petersburg, Russia. She changed completely, and all her bright spirits disappeared."[93]. It was explained to her that each person had to buy a ticket and occupy just one seat in the train, with some tickets costing more than others and the highest-priced tickets granting a better place in the train. Despite going on walks and dinners with each other, Olga and Carol seemed uninterested in each other. All the girls, even the 3-year-old Anastasia, worked hard at frame knitting, making scarves for the soldiers, and the two eldest girls also crocheted caps. "[23], In 1896, Nicholas and Alexandra brought Olga on a visit to Scotland, France, and Darmstadt. "[34] Queen Marie of Romania, who met Olga and her sisters when they visited Romania on a state trip in 1914, commented in her memoirs that the girls were natural and confided in her when Alexandra wasn't present, but when she appeared "they always seemed to be watching her every expression so as to be sure to act according to her desires. Unlike her sister Maria, Grand Duchess Olga did not often talk about wanting a large family, a husband and lots of children. Later, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna reflected that "[Olga] resembled me in character, and that was perhaps why we understood each other so well.”[40], Olga was close to her younger brother, Alexei. . On 23 August 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two burned, partial skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg that appeared to match the site described in Yurovsky's memoirs. Olga war das erste Kind der russischen Zarenfamilie. "Darling, you must know how awful it all is", Olga wrote in a letter to a friend from Tobolsk. But one day, Olga really outdid herself… When she was told the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors, she sympathized with the eldest brothers rather than Joseph. Ermakov stabbed both young women with his 8-inch bayonet, but had difficulty penetrating their torsos because of the jewels that had been sewn into their chemises. View the profiles of people named Olga Nikolaevna. Olga was highly intelligent and enjoyed studying. Schwartz & Wade, 2014. 1911”, General Alexander Spiridovich, the Chief of Secret Personal Police in charge of protecting Nicholas II and his immediate family from 1905 until 1914, described the gala: “Dinner was served on small tables. Westholme Publishing, 2013. [39], Olga was especially close with her paternal aunt and namesake, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. They told the women how much they enjoyed physical exertion and wished there was more of it for them to do in the Ipatiev House. Olga, her sisters and brother, were all wearing their long white nightgowns. She had an extraordinary memory. She and her sisters had little understanding of money, because they had not had an opportunity to shop in stores or to see money exchange hands. Pornographic cartoons circulated depicting Rasputin having relations with the empress, with her four daughters and Anna Vyrubova nude in the background. It had a picture of a little kettle singing on a fire, which she embroidered around as a blue frame, and the little girl was very happy with her accomplishment. Colonel Eugene Kobylynsky, their sympathetic jailer, pleaded with the grand duchess to surrender her revolver before she, her sisters, and brother were transferred to Yekaterinburg. Two bodies, Alexei and one of his sisters, generally thought to be either Maria or Anastasia, were missing. Even as a child Olga Romanov tended to be the most reflective and analytical of her siblings. He told his father, "They won't let me marry Olga Nikolaevna."[59]. There were rumors that Olga and her first cousin once removed Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia were romantically involved. Known for having a generous heart, Olga was also quite independent and ambitious. A similar incident occurred when a cinematograph was played for the children and some friends. . SRA ID: 493862. "[16] She enjoyed reading about politics and read newspapers. However, Olga did not want to marry a prince like many were expecting her to, and instead wanted to stay in … They named her “Olga” (which means ‘Holy”). The tiny grand duchess was probably too young to remember her visit to the British court since it occurred during the family’s trip abroad when she was just an infant. She mentioned to Pierre Gilliard that she was aware that everyone was hoping for the Romanian engagement, but that her father had promised her that she would not be forced into a marriage that was distasteful to her. Whenever his parents reprimanded him, Alexei would “declare that he was Olga’s boy, pick up his toys, and go to her apartment.”[41], Despite this occasional misbehavior, Olga, like all her family, doted on the long-awaited heir Tsarevich Alexei, or "Baby". Nicholas's discussions with his ministers in the early 1900s regarding the possibility of Olga's succession in the absence of a direct male heir, the inclusion of the young Grand Duchess [51] However, as she grew older, Olga was less inclined to see Rasputin as her friend and was more aware of how his friendship with her parents affected the stability of her country. They made the relatively intimate Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo (literally translated as “Imperial Village”, a St Petersburg suburb) their permanent home. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia was the Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia’s oldest child, born in 1895 and murdered alongside the rest of her family in 1918. Olga appeared sickly. The auxiliaries are the servants of the verbs. Foreigners help you learn the language. "[84] Olga's unthinking comments hurt her mother, who had been born in Germany, reported fellow nurse Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva. The … Ermakov tried to stab Alexei with a bayonet but failed again, and finally Yurovsky fired two shots into the boy's head. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (Russian: Великая Княжна Ольга Николаевна; November 15 [O.S. They were left for approximately half an hour while further preparations were made. Bereits im Alter von zwölf Monaten reiste sie mit ihren Eltern nach Balmoral Castle, wo diese Königin Victoria besuchten. The spoiled Alexei teased others at the table, refused to sit up in his chair, wouldn't eat his food and licked his plate. "My children talked much of cousin Ella and how God had taken her spirit, and they understood that later God would take her body also to heaven," wrote Eagar. [85] On one occasion, when a lady in waiting who usually picked up the girls from the hospital was detained and sent a carriage without an attendant, the two girls decided to go shopping in a store when they had a break. "Of course he has to conceal it", she burst out. Olga’s parents put a great deal of pressure on their children, especially their firstborn who was to guide the other children in matters of behavior and their … Many candles, silver, flowers. Olga was the eldest daughter of the Tzar Nikolai.Olga was a chestnut-blonde with bright blue eyes, a broad face and a turned up nose. Joseph was not the eldest, and the beautiful coat should have been given to the eldest son; the other brothers knew that, and perhaps that was why they put him in the pit.” All explanations were useless – Olga’s sympathies lay with Joseph’s eldest brother Reuben. She loved to help others, but she was not one to hold her tongue with her thoughts. However, the stress of caring for wounded, dying men eventually also took its toll on the sensitive, moody Olga's nerves. As for Olga, she loved her little brother unconditionally, as did all Alexei’s other sisters, and felt intensely protective of him. However, they discovered that they didn't know how to buy anything because they had never used money. "[76], In November 1911 a full dress ball was held at Livadia to celebrate her sixteenth birthday and her entry into society. Christopher, Kurth, and Radzinsky, p. 116, GARF673-1-8 Diary of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna 11.12.1916-15.03.1917, Ioann Konstantinovich, letter from Livadia to his family, 9–17 September 1904, in Rossiiskii Arkhiv XV, 2007, p. 426. She refused to allow "a pure, fresh girl" to marry "a well-used, half worn out, blasé young man" and "live in a house in which many a woman has shared his life. As Olga grew into a toddler in 1897, she became the big sister to another imperial daughter, Tatiana. "Felix is a 'downright civilian', dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing; an utterly unpleasant impression he makes – a man idling in such times", Olga wrote to her father, Tsar Nicholas, on 5 March 1915 after paying a visit to the Yussupovs. They got down on their hands and knees to help the women and whispered to them when the guards weren't looking. "[11] On 11 January 1909, Alexandra admonished the 13-year-old Olga for rudeness and bad behavior. [84] I must do it somehow,' she would say." Diplomatically, Olga never actually said that she did not like the Romanian prince as potential husband. She told the teenager that she must be polite to the servants, who looked after her well and did their best for her, and she should not make her nurse "nervous" when she was tired and not feeling well. A. Mordvinov reported that the four grand duchesses appeared "cold and visibly terribly upset" by Rasputin's death and sat "huddled up closely together" on a sofa in one of their bedrooms on the night they received the news. She is the eldest sister to Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei. Olga wrote in her diary the day after the murder that she suspected Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, her first cousin once removed and the man she had at one time been expected to marry, was the murderer of "Father Grigory. The family emerged from their rooms carrying pillows, bags, and other items to make Alexandra and Alexei comfortable. "Olga laughed at it long and hard", her indignant fourteen-year-old sister Tatiana wrote to her aunt Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia. [38] Court official A. As Olga Romanov got older, in addition to her love of nature and the outdoors, she became an even more voracious reader of books: the classics, the history of Russia and works detailing the lives of the peasants, ancient traditions, customs, laws, and geography of her nation. Had it been a boy he would have belonged to the people, being a girl she belongs to us. Großfürstin Marija Nikolajewna von Russland ... Als ihre Schwester Olga die Verlobung mit dem Kronprinzen Carol von Rumänien ausschlug, bat dieser bei einem Besuch 1914 in Russland, um die Hand Marias, doch ihre Eltern lehnten dies ab, da sie ihre Tochter für zu jung hielten. "[5], Olga was compassionate and sought to help others. When “Alice in Wonderland” was first read to Grand Duchess Olga, the little girl was horrified at the manners of the queens. !”[58] In 1908, he traveled to the Crimea "only out of hunger to see Olga." In 1913, the tricentennial year of her family’s dynastic rule, Olga was coming of age – turning 18 in early November, and her life was full of romance, pageantry and fun. "[26], Olga and her siblings were raised as simply as possible. ", Olga was most often paired with her sister Tatiana. Dr. Eugene Botkin and Tatiana went that evening to Yurovsky's office, for what was to be the last time, to ask for the return of the kitchen boy who kept Alexei amused during the long hours of captivity. Your email address will not be published. Ultimately, Dr. Ott used forceps to deliver Olga. "[34] Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden recalled that "the horror of the Revolution told on her more keenly than on any of the others. "God grant him good fortune, my beloved", a saddened Olga wrote on his wedding day, "It's sad, distressing. Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895-1918), the eldest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917), because she is considered to be politically insignificant. St. Martin's Griffin, 2014. Their history… in their own words. She is christened Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. Ihr Vater Nikolaus (1796-1855) wurde 1825 Zar von Russland, die Mutter Charlotte war eine Tochter der Königin Luise von Preußen. The 2nd eldest of the Imperial children, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna was born on the 10th June(o.s May 29th) 1897 to Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra at Tsarskoe Selo, just outside of St.Petersburg, Russia. Dmitri Chakh-Bagov adored Olga and talked of killing Rasputin for her if she only gave the word, because it was the duty of an officer to protect the imperial family even against their will. The bones were found using metal detectors and metal rods as probes.[115]. Elegant, emotional and loyal, the eldest daughter of Nicholas II resembles you the most. Hi, my name is Valiakhmetova Railya. He was in civilian dress at a time when many of the Romanov men and the wounded soldiers Olga cared for were fighting. Chebotareva wrote that Olga's love for him was "pure, naive, without hope" and that she tried to avoid revealing her feelings to the other nurses. Olga Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna, Anastasia Nikolaevna, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Anya Vyrubova and Tsar Nicolas II in 1914.jpg 3,042 × 1,780; 1.63 MB Olga és Tatjána in court gown 1913.jpg 3,176 × … Young Olga once thought that a hat maker who came to the palace had given her a new hat as a present. When she was caught taking a book before her mother read it, Olga would jokingly tell her mother that Alexandra must wait to read the novel until Olga had determined whether it was an appropriate book for her to read. She wrote on 21 December (Old Style) 1916 "At 9 o' clock, we 4, Papa and Mama went to the place where Ania's construction is for the service of Litia and burial of Father Grigory. 100–1. Neither Olga nor any of her siblings ever bought their own clothes or anything else for themselves. [107] As the family was eating dinner that night, Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the detachment, came in and announced that the family's kitchen boy and Alexei's playmate, 14-year-old Leonid Sednev, must gather his things and go to a family member. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanov was born at Tsarskoe Selo on November 3 rd 1895. Such swine, aren't they? I can’t quite believe it considering all the high and mighty people who are panting to marry her. Olga and Tatiana were twenty-two and twenty-one years old at the time of the assassination. "[31] In another letter to Nicholas during World War I, Alexandra complained that Olga's grumpiness, bad humor and general reluctance to make an official visit to the hospital where she usually worked as a Red Cross nurse made things difficult. Instead of the social activities and balls of peacetime, Olga and Tatiana joined their mother in training as military nurses or “Sisters of Mercy.” Working together in their contribution to the Russian war effort no doubt strengthened the strong sisterly “We 2” bond between Olga and Tatiana. [106] The following day, on 15 July, Olga and her sisters appeared in good spirits as they joked with one another and moved the beds in their room so visiting cleaning women could scrub the floor. For a while it seemed that Olga might not recover, but fortunately she did. [48] Rasputin had released ardent, though by all accounts completely innocent in nature, letters written by the Tsarina and the four grand duchesses to him. [89] On another occasion, she destroyed items in a cloakroom when she was "in a rage", according to the memoirs of Valentina Chebotareva. I tried to get out, but was roughly pushed back into the carriage by the sentry. Despite Olga’s naturally haughty personality, the Emperor and Empress tried to make their children live as simply as possible. However, "Grand Duchess" is the usual English translation. "[37] Olga struggled to keep her siblings in line. She was terribly shocked, and exclaimed, “It was a good thing he was dead before they cut off his head; it would have hurt him most awfully if he was alive.” The governess explained that they were not always so kind and usually cut the heads off living people, to which Olga replied, “I really think people are much better now than they used to be. 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