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She is known by the title "Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff". [ 1 ] Educated in her mother's country house Provender , Faversham, Kent, England by private tutors, she was told of her family's tragic imperial heritage in pre-revolutionary Russia as a child by her exiled father. [ 1 ]
The Romanov Family Association (RFA) is an organization of legitimate male-line descendants of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. While extensive, it by no means includes all of the House of Romanov or all Romanov descendants; Maria Vladimirovna has never joined and neither did her late father, Vladimir Cyrillovich.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (b. 1981) ∞ Victoria Romanovna Bettarini (b. 1981) cr. Princess Romanoff. Prince Alexander Georgievich (b. 2022) Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich (1877-1943) ∞ Zinaida Rashevskaya (1898-1963) Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich (1879-1956) ∞ Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) cr. Princess Romanovskya ...
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастасия Николаевна Романова, romanized: Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova; 18 June [O.S. 5 June] 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Olga's friends and family generally called her simply Olga Nikolaevna or nicknamed her "Olishka," "Olenka," or "Olya." Olga was most often paired with her sister Tatiana. The two girls shared a room, dressed alike, and were known as "The Big Pair." [25] In 1900, before her brother Alexei was born, her father fell seriously ill with typhoid fever.
Olga 1822–1892: Charles I 1823–1891 King of Württemberg: Maria 1819–1876: Maximilian de Beauharnais 1817–1852 Duke of Leuchtenberg: Peter Duke of Oldenburg 1812–1881: Olga of Baden 1839–1891: Michael 1832–1909: Maria 1824–1880: Alexander II 1818–1881 Emperor of Russia r. 1855–1881: Catherine Dolgorukova 1847–1922 ...
Her home was also a magnet for Romanov impostors, whom Olga and her family considered a menace. [109] By 1958, Olga's husband was virtually paralyzed, and she sold some of her remaining jewelry to raise funds. [110] Following her husband's death in 1958, she became increasingly infirm until hospitalized in April 1960 at Toronto General Hospital ...
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.