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Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ольга Александровна; 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1882 – 24 November 1960) was the youngest child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II. Olga was raised at the Gatchina Palace outside Saint Petersburg.
Oct 16, 2017 · It was there, in a small apartment belonging to a friend, that Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna died, a continent and an ocean away from her homeland. She represented the last direct link to the Romanov family, which had ruled Russia from 1613 until the revolution of 1917.
Aug 4, 2021 · After the Bolsheviks seized Russia in 1917 and executed the Romanovs, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the tsar’s sister, fled to Canada.
Oct 5, 2016 · Queen Elizabeth II's husband is the grandnephew of the last tsarina, Alexandra Romanov, and great-great-grandson of Nicholas I. His DNA was used to identify the murdered Romanovs' remains. His...
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Jul 2, 2021 · Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, watercolour artist and farmer (born 13 June 1882 in St. Petersburg, Russia; died 24 November 1960 in Toronto, Ontario). Grand Duchess Olga was the sister of the last czar of Russia.
The extraordinary story of Tsar Nicholas’ sister and her journey from the palaces of St. Petersburg to death in obscurity above a barbershop in Toronto. A li...
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Apr 30, 2021 · How did Imperial Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, a member of Russia’s last royals, the Romanovs, born in a Russian palace in 1882, end up at the cemetery in 1960? When her brother, Emperor Nicholas II, was assassinated with his family during the 1917 Russian Revolution, Olga fled with her husband and child to Crimea, then Denmark and finally ...
