Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia


Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia November1601601895 July 17, 1918 was the eldest daughter of the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia. Because Russia continued to use the Julian calendar in 1900 and later, her birthday ended up being celebrated on Novembernew style starting in 1900.

Olga was disdainful of her cousin Princess Irina of Russias husband Felix Yussupov, the man who eventually murdered Rasputin in December 1916. Yussupov had taken advantage of a law permitting men who were only sons to avoid military service. He was in civilian dress at a time when many of the Romanov men and the wounded soldiers Olga cared for were fighting. Felix is a downright civilian, dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing an utterly unpleasant impression he makes a man idling in such times, Olga wrote to her father, Tsar Nicholas, on March 5, 1915 after paying a visit to the Yussupovs. She was also strongly patriotic. In July 1915, while discussing the wedding of an acquaintance with fellow nurses, Olga said she understood why the ancestry of the grooms German grandmother was being kept hidden. Of course he has to conceal it, she burst out. I quite understand him, she may perhaps be a real blo

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