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  Grand Duchess Olga of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna of Russia, Olga Nicolaievna Romanova (November 15, 1895 - July 16, 1918) was the eldest daughter of II of Russia">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 II of Russia">Tsar Nicholas II.
While there, in 1925, Olga traveled to Berlin, Germany to identify the woman claiming to be Anastasia, daughter of her brother, the II of Russia">Tsar Nicholas II.
www.city-search.org /gr/grand-duchess-olga-of-russia.html   (838 words)

  
 Grand Duchess Olga of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia (September 3, 1851 - June 18, 1926).
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (September 11, 1822 - October 30, 1892).
Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (July 22, 1792 - January 26, 1795) was a daughter of Emperor Paul of Russia; she died in infancy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olga_Nicolaievna_Romanova   (208 words)

  
 The Alexander Palace Time Machine Bios - 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.
www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/olganbio.html   (6764 words)

  
 News - An Accidental Victim, Doomed by Her Bravery - The St. Petersburg Times. General news from St.Petersburg and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The next day it was identified as the body of Olga Romanova - a 26-year-old salesperson, who had supported her pensioner parents and disabled brother.
It is unclear how Romanova entered the House of Culture - familiar to her since childhood - as it was surrounded by police, although the cordon was weaker in the early hours of the siege.
Romanova's colleagues and friends say she was an honest, blunt and hard-working person with a strong sense of justice.
archive.sptimes.ru /archive/times/819/news/n_7857.htm   (1032 words)

  
 NAPF Programs: Youth Outreach: Peace Heroes: Olga Romanova, by Ruben Arvizu
Olga had confidence that she could convince the rebels to release the hostages, if not all of them, at least the women and children.
Olga was not a public servant but a simple citizen with an enormous sense of responsibility.
The young Romanova exposed herself to lethal danger because she believed it was her duty.
www.wagingpeace.org /menu/programs/youth-outreach/peace-heroes/romanova-olga.htm   (485 words)

  
 Russian Athletics | News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After her win at the Hustopecske skakani, Olga Kaliturina won at the Beskydska latka, the second meeting of the Moravska vyskarska tour, with clearance of 1,94m.
Olga Kaliturina won the women's high jump at the Hustopecske skakani, a meeting held in Hustopece (Czech republic).
Olga Romanova was the top woman in the Aramco Houston Half Marathon (16 January) with a time of 1:12:36.
www.eng.rusathletics.com /nov/month.php?date=1.2005   (318 words)

  
 WetCanvas! - She Died Trying to Save the Hostages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The next day it was identified as the body of Olga Romanova -- a 26-year-old salesgirl who had supported her pensioner parents and disabled brother.
It is unclear how Romanova entered the neighborhood's former house of culture -- familiar to her since childhood -- which was surrounded by police, although the cordon was weaker in the early hours of the siege.
Natalya Shchedrina, a high-school classmate of Romanova's who re-established ties with her last winter, also said Romanova's response to the hostage-taking was not out of character.
www.wetcanvas.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-71029.html   (1052 words)

  
 Different paths, same result - PittsburghLIVE.com
Romanova, a Russian native, who trains in Germantown, Md., said she would have liked to have had competition, but used this race to see how her right leg, which she injured in August, had healed.
Kelly and Romanova, who is considered an international elite runner, did not receive any money yesterday because there was no orize money, but she will get compensated from a shoe company that sponsors her.
Coming to race in Pittsburgh was a good choice for Romanova because it is close and she stayed with a friend of hers and her coach Konstantin Selinevich, Penguins defenseman Sergei Gonchar.
pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/highschool/baseball/s_377908.html   (587 words)

  
 Articles - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Olga was the most intelligent of Nikolai II's children.
Before World War I, there was some discussion of a marriage between her and Prince Carol of Romania (and also the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, was a suitor), but Olga did not like Carol and the plans were, in any event, put on hold upon the outbreak of war.
Olga's nurse work ended when she had a nervous breakdown.
www.gaple.com /articles/Grand_Duchess_Olga_Nikolaevna_of_Russia?mySession=676e0010bfe76d50a28ef9aef2d97642   (503 words)

  
 Olishka's Journal ~ My Story
"Olga" is Russian for "Holy," chosen in part to honor my father's youngest sister and another of my Godmothers, my dear aunt Olga Alexandrovna, with whom my name day would be celebrated each year on July 11 (July 24 on the new calendar).
The Dowager-Empress and Queen Olga of Greece were her godmothers, and it was the Empress Marie, wonderfully young-looking for the grandmother's role, who held the baby during the ceremony.
Her hair, blonde and abundant, was worn for the first time coiled up young-lady fashion, and she bore herself as the central figure of the festivities with a modesty and a dignity which greatly pleased her parents.
www.livadia.org /olishka/me.html   (4242 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Romanova Runs Away With 8K   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But pacesetter Olga Romanova had a good idea how things would work out.
Romanova won the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile last spring and served as the rabbit at the New York City Marathon this month.
Romanova and Chulakh "worked together for the first part, but in the end it is a competition."
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8662-2003Nov23?language=printer   (264 words)

  
 News and Sentinel Half Marathon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Last Sunday, while leading the seven-mile Falmouth Road Run in Massachusetts with 200 meters remaining, Russia’s Olga Romanova came to a sudden stop and was not able to finish the race.
That would not be the case on Saturday as Romanova would lead from start to finish in capturing her first News and Sentinel Half Marathon with a time of one hour, 12 minutes and 15 seconds.
Romanova becomes the 16th different winner of the News and Sentinel Half Marathon.
www.newsandsentinel.com /halfmarathon/03women.html   (627 words)

  
 My Name is Anastasia - Myths and Legends
Olga, Tatiana and mother became nurses and worked in hospitals, even assisting in surgeries.
Olga had a nevous breakdown and papa went to the front to try and make things better.
Olga says it had a big effect on what people thought of us.
www.alexanderpalace.org /anastasia/myth.html   (1236 words)

  
 SBLI Falmouth Road Race: News Release Mile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Behind her was Olga Romanova, also of Russia, who was running her first Falmouth.
Romanova found herself in the lead, with Rhines now in second.
The Russian seemed to have the win in hand as she crested the last hill before the finish in Falmouth Heights, 200 yards from victory, when she suddenly stepped off the course, apparently the victim of heat exhaustion.
sblifalmouthroadrace.com /press/news_release_2003_3.shtml   (702 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Uzbek Drought Thousands are leaving the northern region of Karakalpakstan, as water supplies dry up for the second year running.
By Olga Romanova in Nukus, Karakalpakstan (RCA No. 66, 22-Aug-01) "It hurts to look out over these scorched, barren fields that were once so bountiful, giving us rice, watermelons and golden wheat," laments Azamat Bayatanov.
Olga Romanova is a pseudonym of a journalist in Karakalpakstan.
www.iwpr.net /archive/rca/rca_200108_66_4_eng.txt   (742 words)

  
 Wire2005-04
In the women's division in the Aramco Houston Half Marathon, Russia's Olga Romanova led a pack of eight through a sluggish 5K in 18:01.
The group was still stuck in slow motion at the 10K mark, covered in 35:22, before Romanova and countrywoman Lioudmila Kortchaguina decided it was time to step it up.
Romanova's winning time of 1:12:36 was 19 seconds better than Kortchaguina.
www.runningusa.org /media/wire2005/Wire2005-04.html   (1610 words)

  
 RunTex - Newsletter
Russian runner Olga Romanova, fresh off a win at the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler in Washington, D.C., topped the women’s field in 15:54, well off of Colleen De Reuck’s course mark of 15:28 set in 2002.
The women’s race turned into a battle of Russian and Kenyan runners as Romanova and Kenya’s Emily Samoei ran head to head for almost the entire race.
Nonetheless, Romanova, 22, a former junior European 10K champion, put the hammer down on the First Street Bridge, and just s-printed down the final stretch three seconds ahead of Samoei.
www.runtexu.com /Newsletter/Article.asp?5   (848 words)

  
 The unsolved riddle of princess Anastasia - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The younger sister of Russia's last monarch Nicholas visited her "niece" in one of asylums, which lately became the claimant"s habitual place of residence.
However, in 1927 Nachtausgabe, a Berlin newspaper, published a sensational article "Anastasia"s Mystery is Solved" and a few weeks later it exposed the pretender pointing to her Polish proletarian background.
The priest was amazed to learn during confession that the lady was Anastasia Romanova, the daughter of the last Tsar Nicholas II.
english.pravda.ru /main/18/90/363/13367_Nicholas.html   (2146 words)

  
 Injury forces top runner out of marathon - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Olga Romanova of Russia, who was going to be the pacesetter, probably will be competing.
I'm thinking she is going to be in the top five if she runs," Selinevich said.
Although Romanova has not run in a marathon before, she has won five of the seven races she has competed in this year, including the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run in Washington, D.C., in May. She finished in 53 minutes, 43 seconds.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Dec/10/sp/sp10a.html   (373 words)

  
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The new language consists of three thousand words, more or less, and it was formed from words taken from all four major Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
Eğer (yukarıdaki) metni okuyabildiyseniz, Romanova adını verdiğimiz yeni lisanımız işe yarıyor demektir!
members.aol.com /dkcsac/myhomepage/romanova.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Washington Running Report -- Regional News Article
Twenty-two-year old Olga Romanova from Russia was the surprise women's winner in 53:42.
Romanova, who finished 15th one week earlier in the World Cross-Country 4K race in Switzerland, only decided to race in Washington when agent Konstantin Selinovich suggested in Switzerland that she change her flight schedule and race in the United States.
She took the lead around nine miles, passing Asha Gigi from Ethiopia in a rush.
www.runwashington.com /news/apr03cucbrpt.html   (535 words)

  
 Washington Running Report -- Regional News Article
By the end, Nelson Kiplagat broke away--just barely--to win in 48 minutes 12 seconds, and Isabella Ochichi ran 52:07 (photo left) to supplant Olga Romanova as the women's champion on a blustery morning more suited to hot chocolate and coffee indoors than Gatorade and racing in the unforgiving elements.
Pre-race attention in the women's race focused on three major stars: Ichichi, Romanova and Catherine Ndereba, who is prepping for the Boston Marathon on April 15.
Romanova never ran with the leaders and finished fifth, behind two fellow Russians, in 53:45, just two seconds slower than her winning effort in 2003.
www.runwashington.com /news/apr04cucurpt.html   (1182 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Information Vacuum Self-censorship, low wages and poor technical resources are destroying independent journalism in Karakalpakstan.
By Olga Romanova in Nukus, Karakalpakstan (RCA No. 10, 7-July-00) On the face of it, journalists in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan, are in an enviable position.
Olga Romanova is a freelance journalist in Nukus, Karakalpakstan.
www.iwpr.net /archive/rca/rca_200007_10_02_eng.txt   (472 words)

  
 Belavin, Mercado winners in Cleveland Marathon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the women's 10K, Galina Alexandrova of Russia won in 33:07.
Teammate Olga Romanova finished 33 seconds later and Naomi Wangui of Kenya (33:51) was third.
About 6,000 runners participated in both races in windy and wet conditions with temperatures in the 50s.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/25/sports1634EDT0185.DTL&type=printable   (141 words)

  
 Defending champions face tough challengers - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
She returns this year, but hasn't competed in a major race since September 2003, when she won the Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
All of the top four finishers from last year's race are back, including Russians Alevtina Ivanova, 29 (finished second last year in 2:33:49), Albina Ivanova, 26 (third in 2:34:36; no relation to Alevtina), and Olga Romanova, 24 (fourth in 2:39:49).
Romanova was going to be the pacesetter last year, but chose to compete after Morgunova pulled out of the competition.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Dec/11/sp/sp06p.html   (469 words)

  
 BeBits - Victor3D's Icon Collection - Talkback
That beautiful lady on the photo is the famous russian TV-star Olga Romanova (Îëüãà Ðîìàíîâà).
I love her very much, so I wanted everyone to know that I really love her.
And text written in Russian can be translated into English as "Devoted to Olga Romanova, TV-star that I love very much".
www.bebits.com /talkback/3138   (190 words)

  
 ING New York City Marathon Photos - www.fast-women.com
L-R: Pacesetters Leah Malot, Olga Romanova and 2000 New York City Marathon champ Ludmila Petrova.
The runners stand at attention during the U.S. national anthem.
The leaders passed through the mile mark in 6:06.
www.fast-women.org /photos/ingnycmarathon03   (270 words)

  
 --MEDIA ADVISORY-- PAIN RUN ADVISORY #2 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Among the entrants will be Olga Romanova, an elite female runner from the Russian National Athletic Team.
With a personal best time of 31:58 in the 10K, Romanova is a threat to break the City of Sacramento 10K record for women, a time of 32:48 set on the Run Against Pain course in 2001 by Svetlana Zacharova of Russia.
Also competing will be Christian Hesch, current holder of the men's City of Sacramento 10K record of 29:28.
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu /news/pain_run_advisory2.html   (277 words)

  
 Welcome To Schlotzsky's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Defending women's Bun Run champion Olga Romanova, the 23-year-old Russian who finished fourth at the 2003 Honolulu Marathon (2:39:49) and 15th at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, returns to improve her 15:54 time from last year.
2003 runner-up Emily Samoei of Kenya will likely give Romanova a run for her money.
Dorota Gruca of Poland (second place at January's 3M Half Marathon, 1:12:35), Ukrainian Tatyana Pozdnyakova (recent masters winner of the City of Los Angeles Marathon, 2:30:17), American Jody Hawkins, the comeback kid (10th place at Bun Run 2003, 16:53) and Austin favorite Carmen Troncoso, second-place masters finisher last year (16:43:10), will also be there.
www.schlotzskys.com /pr_20040312_bunrun.html   (702 words)

  
 Runner's World presents NYCM 2003 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
All three bettered Okayo's 2001 record of 2:24:21.
Pacemakers Leah Malot and Olga Romanova pulled a pack of twelve through 10-K in 34:10 and 20-K in 1:08:18.
At halfway, reached in 1:12:04, Okayo and Kiplagat were at the front of the pack, along with 2000 champion Ludmila Petrova; the trio were followed by 2002 champion Joyce Chepchumba, half-marathon world record holder Susan Chepkemei, and masters star Firaya Sultanova-Zhdanova, with Ndereba hanging on to the back of the pack.
www.runnersworld.com /events/nycm03/031102wrace.html   (852 words)

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