This documentary is a historical account of the life & times of the Grand Duchess, Olga. As the sister of Nicholas II, the very last Tsar of Russia, she was born into unimaginable wealth & privilege only to end up fleeing Russia because of the revolution.
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Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: О́льга Алекса́ндровна Рома́нова; Olga Alexandrovna Romanova) (June 13, 1882November 24, 1960) was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia under the reign of her elder brother, Czar Nicholas II. Her father was Alexander III of Russia; her mother was the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna, formerly titled Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Raised at the Gatchina Palace of St. Petersburg, Russia, the young Grand Duchess was closest to her brother, "Misha", Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich.
The Grand Duchess was an accomplished painter and was responsible for the creation of over 2,000 works of art. She was the last surviving grandchild of Alexander II of Russia. During the reign of her brother and father she was styled 'Her Imperial Highness (HIH), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanov of Russia.
After the downfall of the Romanovs, she, her mother, and other relatives, were imprisoned in the Crimea. During a political upheaval within the ad interim, revolutionary government, the remaining family escaped to Copenhagen, Denmark. Upon the death of her mother in 1928, the Grand Duchess and her second husband, Nikolai Kulikovsky, moved to a farm near Copenhagen. During the spring of 1948, the family emigrated to Canada settling on a dairy farm in rural Campbellville Ontario. Some years later they moved to the town of Cooksville, Ontario near Toronto.
Born on June 13, 1882 in the Peterhof Palace, west of St. Petersburg in Peterhof, Russia, she was the youngest daughter of Tsar Alexander III and his consort, Empress Maria Feodorovna, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Because she was born during her father's reign, she is described as born in the purple or as a porphyrogenite child, a Greek term used in the Russian Orthodox Church. The Grand Duchess was raised at the country Gatchina Palace, about forty miles west safely away from the dangers of the Imperial Palaces of St. Petersburg, Russia. Gatchina was her childhood home and throughout her life the Grand Duchess would reflect on those memories as the "best" time of her life.[1] However, Olga Alexandrovna and her siblings were not accustomed to a lavish early lifestyle, as modest, Spartan living and the strictest of discipline was required by their tutors, governesses, and parents.
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