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  Grand Duchess Olga of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna of Russia, Olga Nicolaievna Romanova (November 15, 1895 - July 16, 1918) was the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Olga was extremely intelligent and a difficult child.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, Olga Alexandrovna Romanova (June 13, 1882 - November 24, 1960) was a Grand Duchess of Russia during its Imperial Era and was the younger sister of murdered Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
Born on June 13, 1882 in Alexandria Palace, Peterhof, Russia, she was the youngest daughter of Tsar Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna of Denmark.
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 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia at AllExperts
She was the oldest sister of the Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia of Russia, and of Tsarevich Alexei of Russia.
Her godparents were The King of Denmark, The Grand Duke of Hesse, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, The Dowager Empress of Russia, The Queen of England, The Empress of Germany, The Queen of Greece, and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia.
Olga was murdured by military commissar Peter Ermakov by a single gun shot that broke her jaw and ripped through her brain.
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 THIRD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Czarina Dagmar (Marie Fedovorna) of Denmark Empress of Russia was born in 1847.
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia was born in 1875.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia was born in 1882.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Michael was a son of Alexander III of Russia and Dagmar of Denmark.
Michael was a younger brother of Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia.
Nicholas II and his Empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse were parents to four daughters: Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, and Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.
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 Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grand Duchess was described as being indifferent to the fine gemstones and expensive jewellery which remains identifiable with the House of Romanov during the reign of both her brother and father.
As of 1901, the Grand Duchess was appointed as honorary Commander-in-Chief of the 12th Akhtyrsky Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Forces.
Stalin-controlled Russia proved to be a dangerous neighbor to the Romanov family as a letter was sent to the Danish government accusing the Grand Duchess and a Danish Catholic bishop of conspiracy against the new Soviet government.
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 Romanov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (daughter of Alexander III)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (daughter of Nicholas II)
Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (daughter of Nicholas II)
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 Grand Duchess Olga of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova of Russia (September 3, 1851 - June 18, 1926).
A granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, she married King George I of the Hellenes in 1867.
Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (July 22, 1792 - January 26, 1795) was a daughter of Emperor Paul of Russia; she died in infancy.
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 Alexander II of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Fortunately for Russia the autocratic power was now in the hands of a man who was impressionable enough to be deeply influenced by the spirit of the time, and who had sufficient prudence and practicality to prevent his being carried away by the prevailing excitement into the dangerous region of Utopian dreaming.
She was the legal daughter of Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Wilhelmina of Baden, although there was a question of whether the Grand Duke or her mother's lover, Baron August von Senarclens de Grancy, was her actual father.
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 RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SUCCESSION, by BRIEN HORAN
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich was attacked for his role in persuading Nicholas II to abdicate, thus precipitating the fall of the dynasty.
In 1889, Grand Duke Peter Nikolayevich of Russia married Princess Militza of Montenegro,[65] a daughter of an Orthodox sovereign, Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro.
Grand Dukes Kirill and Wladimir (successive representatives of the first and senior of the four lines, stemming from Nicholas I's eldest son Alexander II) were supported in the early decades of exile by the leading members of the first, second and fourth lines of the dynasty.
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
Olga had her father's broad features, but was elegant in her movements and feminine in a 19th century way.
Olga had a naturally warm and open personality, but she was trained to be reserved.
Olga did this very delicately, without alarming their overly protective parents; this no small feat and a tribute to the trust Nickolas and Aleksandra had for her.
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 Olga Information
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the last Romanov Grand Duchess
Olga of Kiev, a wife of Igor of Kiev
Olga, Primorsky Krai, an urban settlement in Primorsky Krai, Russia
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 Romanovs of Russia | The Last Imperial Children of Russia
A Tsar’s daughter were called a Grand Duchess to show that the were even grander than a mere Princess.
Her Father’s cousin the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the younger (who was five years older then Olga) called her “Remarkably ugly, her head was too large for her little body!”.
Olga was a fair blue-eyed girl with dark blond hair; she was kind, witty, sensitive, spiritual and very serious.
www.freewebs.com /romanovsofrussia/grandduchessolga.htm   (328 words)

  
 Russian Imperial Family, Photographs
The Grand Duke is in the uniform of General-Adjutant wearing collar of the order of St Andrew, St Vladimir sash, badges of the suites of Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II, Russian and foreign medals and orders.
The reverse is decorated with the Imperial badges of the members of Grand Duke Sergei's family, and the following inscription: "Photographer of Their Imperial Highnesses Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, D.Asikritov, Moscow, street address".
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and empress Maria Feodorovna with four daughters of Nicholas II: Olga, Maria, Tatyana and Anastasia.
www.romanovrussia.com /Photos.html   (484 words)

  
 Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Olga Alexandrovna dies alone in a state of destitution, but she have achieved a very peculiar integrity, a original poor old lady in Toronto, inspiring respect with all her good sides, prejudice, flaws and human qualities like others.
Olga Alexandrovna went strait home to her hypochondriac prince, and found him in the library and explained to him that she had found someone to love and wanted a divorce.
Olga Alexandrovna didn't recognise her as Anastasia, one of the reasons were that this woman (Anna Anderson) didn't speak a word Russian, French or English, which were the languages that was spoken in the imperial family.
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 Grant Menzies - Time of Rainbows: Russian Émigré Memoirists
Russia's very variety and flexibility was her strongest suit, and with better governmental luck could have helped ease the country into becoming a truly representative democracy.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Tsar Nicholas II, herself became a competent still-life painter by her later years.
However, Grand Duchess George was trapped in England, with her daughters Xenia and Nina, at the outbreak of W.W.I, and consequently much of what she has to say after 1914 is based on what she heard or on letters from her imprisoned husband.
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 Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
Grand Duchess Olga, age 19, at her St. Petersburg residence shortly after her first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg in 1901.
The Grand Duchess was the youngest sister of ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Artworks by Grand Duchess Olga are in the collections of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, His Majesty King Harald of Norway, the Ballerup Museum, Denmark, and private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe, among others.
www.si.edu /oahp/olga/index.html   (659 words)

  
 Anna Anderson at AllExperts
The Grand Duchess Anastasia was born on June 18, 1901 and is presumed to have been executed with her family on July 17, 1918 by Bolshevik Secret Police.
It was during this time that Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia], the younger sister of Tsar Nicholas II and Anastasia's aunt, who had survived the Revolution and settled in Denmark, came to Berlin to see the woman who claimed to be her niece.
The mitochondrial DNA of the bones unearthed from a forest grave, presumed to be those of Alexandra and three of her daughters, were compared to that of the Duke of Edinburgh, whose maternal grandmother Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine was a sister of Alexandra.
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 Dagmar of Denmark - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Despite the overthrow of the monarchy (1917), the Empress Maria at first refused to leave Russia: it was only in 1919, at the urging of her sister Alexandra, that she grudgingly departed.
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (April 6, 1875 - April 20, 1960).
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (June 13, 1882 - November 24, 1960).
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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (en)
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890-1958) (en)
Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia (en)
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaievna
Olga's beginnings, however, were quite conventional-unless, of course, one considers that she was born to parents who presided over a nation comprising one-sixth of the globe's land surface.
Olga's affections were instead focused on a man that, with regard to their respective stations in life, would be deemed a highly unsuitable match.
Olga had been unable to deal with the most gruesome aspects of hospital work, but she continued to work tirelessly in other capacities and was not above being contemptuous of those who had time on their hands.
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 Russia Gnp
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Olga Alexandrovna Romanova; Russian:Ольга Александровна Романова) (13 June, 1882 - 24 November, 1960) was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia under the reign of her elder brother, Czar Nicholas II.
George Mihailovich of Russia - George Mikhailovich of Russia, Georgiy Mikhailovich Romanov (Георгий Михайлович Романов) (born June 22, 1982) is the heir apparent to the disputed Headship of the Imperial Family of Russia, and claims the titles Tsarevich and Grand Duke of Russia, these are recognised by Queen Elizabeth II.
Imperial Crown of Russia - The Imperial Crown of Russia is the crown that was used to crown Emperors of Russia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1917.
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 Olga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna of Russia the elder (1822-1892), Queen of Württemberg
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna of Russia the younger (1895-1918), the eldest daughter of Nicholas II of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia (1851-1926), later Queen Olga of Greece the queen consort of King George I of Greece and in 1920, Regent of Greece
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 Gilbert's Royal Books - The Last Grand Duchess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
When she died in exile in November 1960, Olga Alexandrovna was the last Grand Duchess of Russia, favorite sister of Tsar Nicholas II who had been murdered with his family furing the Revolution.
The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the intriguing 300-year reign of the house of Romanov--seen through the eyes of its last surviving member.
In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the lonliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia--from her childhood games in the echoing royal galleries to her fifteen-year loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg; from the Borki train disaster when Olga was seven to her bleak escape to Denmark in 1917.
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 Amazon.fr : The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, 1 June 1992-24 November ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
When she died in exile in 1960, Olga Alexandrovna was the last Grand Duchess of Russia, the favorite sister of Czar Nicholas II who was executed with his wife and five children during the Revolution.
The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member.
In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the loneliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia, her loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her years of exile in England and Denmark, and her final settlement with her second husband and family in Canada.
www.amazon.fr /Last-Grand-Duchess-Imperial-Alexandrovna/dp/1552633020   (454 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - The History of Imperial Russia - Russian Royalty
Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 by Lindsey Hughes.
Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia by Hugo Mager.
Princess in Exile by Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia.
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 Alexander III of Russia - Wikipedia Mirror
All the internal reforms which he initiated were intended to correct what he considered as the too liberal tendencies of the previous reign, so that he left behind him the reputation of a sovereign of the retrograde type.
In his opinion Russia was to be saved from anarchical disorders and revolutionary agitation, not by the parliamentary institutions and so-called liberalism of western Europe, but by the three principles which the elder generation of the Slavophils systematically recommended—nationality, Eastern Orthodoxy and autocracy.
In foreign affairs he was emphatically a man of peace, but not at all a partisan of the doctrine of peace at any price, and he followed the principle that the best means of averting war is to be well prepared for it.
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