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- Birth nameOlga Nicholaevna Romanova
- Nicknames
- Olyechka
- Olya
- Olishka
- The Big Pair
- Olenka
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Her Imperial Highness, The Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaievna Romanov was born on November 15, 1895 at Tsarskoe Selo. She was the oldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra. She has 3 younger sisters - Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia - and one younger brother Alexei. Olga was the most like her father, the Tsar Nicholas the Second, with chestnut-blonde hair and blue eyes. She was the more thoughtful of her sisters and very intelligent, but she was sometimes difficult, and argued with her mother, Empress Alexandra. Olga was extremely close to her younger sister Tatiana, who was 18 months younger then her. Tatiana and Olga shared a bedroom and were called "The Big Pair", while Olga's other two younger sisters - Maria and Anastasia - were called "The Little Pair." Olga was going to maybe marry Price Carol of Romania, but Olga didn't want to leave Russia. "I am Russian and I mean to remain Russian!" So Olga did not marry Prince Carol. When World War I started Olga, her sister Tatiana and her Mother the Empress Alexandra became War nurses. During the War Olga became more aware of the resentment that the Russian people had for her family. Also During the war she had a mental breakdown. When her father abdicated, for himself and Alexei, Olga and her family were prisoners of the Revolution, in Tobolsk. After that, Olga's father, mother and sister Maria went to Ekaterinburg, leaving Olga with her sisters Tatiana and Anastasia and her younger brother Alexei. Olga and her sisters took care of Alexei because he got very hurt before her father, mother and sister left. After Alexei was well enough to be moved, Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia, Alexei and some of their employees went to Ekaterinburg, to be with their parents and Maria. In Ekaterinburg the Romanov's lived in a place called "The House of Special Purpose." Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia all shared a room, while her father, mother, and Alexei shared. On July 17, 1918 the Romanovs, their Doctor, and others where set up in a basement in "The House of Special Purpose." Then, 11 executors entered and started firing. Olga and her family and servants all died. Olga was only 23 years old when she died. But, when they found the bodies of the Romanovs and their servants they realized they are missing two, Alexei and either Maria, Tatiana, or Anastasia. Recently the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia canonized the Romanovs as saints.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jamie
- ChildrenNo Children
- Parents
- RelativesGrand Duchess Tatiana(Sibling)Grand Duchess Maria(Sibling)Grand Duchess Anastasia(Sibling)Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov(Sibling)Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia(Aunt or Uncle)Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia(Aunt or Uncle)Victoria Mountbatten(Aunt or Uncle)Elizabeth Feodorovna(Aunt or Uncle)Princess Irene of Prussia(Aunt or Uncle)Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine(Aunt or Uncle)Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia(Aunt or Uncle)George Alexandrovich(Aunt or Uncle)Grand Duke Michael(Aunt or Uncle)Ernest Louis(Aunt or Uncle)Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine(Aunt or Uncle)Princess Irina Yusupova(Cousin)Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia(Cousin)Count Brasov George Mikhailovich(Cousin)Tikhon Nikolaevich(Cousin)Guri Nikolaevich(Cousin)Princess Alice of Battenberg(Cousin)Queen Louise(Cousin)George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven(Cousin)Louis Mountbatten(Cousin)Prince Waldemar of Prussia(Cousin)Prince Sigismund of Prussia(Cousin)Prince Henry of Prussia(Cousin)Stillborn son Prinz von Hessen und bei Rhine(Cousin)Czar Aleksandr III(Grandparent)Czarina Maria Fyodorovna(Grandparent)Louis IV(Grandparent)Grand Duchess Alice(Grandparent)Tsar Alexander II(Great Grandparent)Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)(Great Grandparent)Prince Albert(Great Grandparent)Queen Victoria(Great Grandparent)Christian IX(Great Grandparent)
- Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (1868 - 1918) and Tsarina Alexandra (1872 - 1918).
- Older sister of Grand Duchess Tatiana (1897 - 1918), Grand Duchess Maria (1899 - 1918), Grand Duchess Anastasia (1901 - 1918 ) and Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (1904- 1918).
- Was reputedly engaged to her cousin Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, the engagement having ended when he killed Rasputin. Others dismissed this as rumor, stating that she was never engaged to any would-be suitors.
- Niece of King Frederik VIII, Queen Alexandra, King George of Greece, Prinsesse Thyra, Prins Valdemar, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864-1918), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia.
- Granddaughter of Czar Aleksandr III (1845 - 1894), the Dowager Empress Czarina Maria Fyodorovna (1847-1928), Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837-1892) and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843 - 1878).
- For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
- In St. Petersburg we work, but at Livadia, we live.
- I am a Russian, and I will remain a Russian!.
- I see, monsieur. The auxiliaries are the servants of the verbs. It's only poor 'avoir' which has to shift for itself.
- Father asks to...Remember that the evil which is now in the world will become stronger yet and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but love.
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