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Nikolai Kulikovsky was born into minor nobility from the Voronezh province of Russia. His grandfather was a general during the Napoleonic Wars , and his family owned two large estates in Ukraine . He rode from an early age, became an expert horseman, and was educated at Petrograd Real College of Gurevich, followed by the Nicholas Cavalry ...
On 2 June 1948, Olga, Kulikovsky, Tikhon and his Danish-born wife Agnete, Guri and his Danish-born wife Ruth, Guri and Ruth's two children, Xenia and Leonid, and Olga's devoted companion and former maid Emilia Tenso ("Mimka") departed Liverpool on board the Empress of Canada. [99] After a rough crossing, the ship docked at Halifax, Nova Scotia ...
Two years after their marriage, Olga met a cavalry officer her own age, Nikolai Kulikovsky, member of Russian-Moldavian Kulikovsky noble family, to whom she was attracted. [17] She confronted Oldenburg and asked for a divorce, which he refused with the qualification that he might reconsider after seven years. [18]
Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (m. 1916; d. 1958) Maria Pavlovna: Pavel Alexandrovich: 18 April 1890: 13 December 1958: Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland (m. 1908; div. 1914) Prince Sergei Mikhailovich Putyatin (m. 1917; div. 1923) Olga Nikolaievna: Nikolai Alexandrovich: 15 November 1895: 17 July 1918: Died unmarried. Tatiana Nikolaievna ...
For years Nicholas refused to grant his unhappy sister a divorce, only relenting in 1916 in the midst of the War. When Olga attempted to contract a morganatic marriage with Nikolai Kulikovsky, Maria Feodorovna and the tsar tried to dissuade her, yet, they did not protest too vehemently. [60]
Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich was born on 10 March 1845 at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, the second son and third child of Tsesarevich Alexander (Future Alexander II) and his first wife Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine). He was born during the reign of his grandfather Nicholas I.
Her sister finally had her shell of a first marriage dissolved by the Tsar and was married in November 1916 to Nikolai Kulikovsky in the presence of the Dowager Empress in Kiev. [22] Xenia was absent. On 28 October 1916, increasingly depressed by Russia's predicament, Xenia wrote to her mother, speculating what her father would have done.
16 November 1916: Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia and Nikolai Kulikovsky; 26 September 1917 Afonso, Duke of Porto (after the 5 October 1910 revolution to overthrow the Portuguese monarchy) and American heiress Nevada Stoody Hayes; 1 February 1920: Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark and American heiress Nancy Stewart Worthington ...