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| Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia through the years (1895 - 1916) |
Today in 122 years ago, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia was born in Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (now is Russian Federation Republic). She was born as Romanov clan. I will write short sad-fate facts of her.
1. She was the eldest daughter of the last Tsar of All Russias, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess Alix of Hesse & by Rhine). She was also great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom through female line.
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| Olga and her parents |
2. Her childhood surrounded by happiness. She had lovely parents, three gorgeous younger sisters, a beautiful little brother, religious family, and luxury nobility lifestyle.
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| Olga and her family |
3. Olga was considered to be the most intelligent out of 5-her siblings. She had passion about schoolwork the most. In my opinion, she might be a great ruler if Tsar Paul I didn't forbid woman to be heir to Russian throne.
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| Olga and her siblings (Olga was the tallest) |
4. If she succeeded his father, I am sure she would be Olga the Great. She grew up from little girl to be critical woman. She knew about financial and political circumstances of her country during World War I.
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| Olga wrote a Letter |
5. She was matched with other European royal prince to be possible future husband but she decided to marry a Russian and live rest of her life in own country. Her parents also didn't force her to choose a man she would marry.
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| Olga and her British Relatives |
6. The suitors were Prince David of Wales (future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom), Prince Alexander of Serbia (future King Alexander I of Yugoslavia), Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich of Russia (his father's first cousin), & Prince Carol of Romania (future King Carol II of Romania). But Olga rejected all the suitors, as I said, she didn't want to leave her country, Russia and change her nationality.
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| Olga and her possible future husband (Edited by @lovelyotma) |
7. In late 1913, she fell in love with 27-year-old Pavel Voronov, a junior officer in Imperial Yacht Shtandart. But she must to accept that Pavel became engaged to another Olga, a lady in waiting.
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| Olga and Pavel Voronov |
8. In 1915, when she was serving as a nurse during World War I in Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo (Catherine Palace was set up for hospital), she met Dimitri "Mitya" Shakh-Bagov, a wounded soldier she fell in love with.
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| Olga was surrounded by officer and wounded soldier (Mitya was on the bed) |
9. Her life changed after his father abdication following Russia Revolution in February, 1917. Then, she imprisoned in 3 different places only a year together with her family.
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| Olga, her family, and 4 loyal servants in Murder Scene |
10. She and family were under house arrest in Alexander Palace after February Revolution. Then, the family was moved miles away to Tobolsk in Siberia after Bolsheviks Revolution in October, 1917.
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| Olga and her sisters during house arrest in Alexander Palace, 1917 |
11. She lost her weight during captivity due to depression. In April 1918, the family was moved again to Yekaterinburg by Soviet Government. But her younger brother, the Tsarevitch (read: Aleksey Nikolaevich) wasn't able to travel to Yekaterinburg because he was suffering hemophillia attack.
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| Olga was chopping a wood during captivity in Tobolsk |
12. Her parents were very anxious about her state of mental health. Her spirit was too low. That's why her parents chose Maria (her younger sister) to accompany them to Yekaterinburg because they believed she could give them power.
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| Her father and second younger sister, Maria Nikolaevna |
13. She and two younger sisters, Tatiana and Anastasia take care of Aleksey in Tobolsk until he was strong enough to travel to Yekaterinburg. Her parents didn't take Anastasia to accompany them to Yekaterinburg because she was too young and they trusted Tatiana to take care of her siblings because she was level-headed.
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| Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia was taking care of their younger brother, Aleksey in Tobolsk. This was known to be last photograph of the siblings together |
14. Unfortunately, her life wasn't long. In last exile, she was planned in order to assassinated along with other 53 Romanovs by Bolsheviks in 1918. But 35 Romanovs could escape from assassination, excluding her and immediate family. She was only 22 years old at the day she died.
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| Romanovs who were assassinated by Bolsheviks (Edited by @lovelyotma) |
15. (This part may be disturbing for some people)
In early morning of July 17, 1918, she and her family were ordered to walk down to basement in Ipative House, Yekaterinburg. In that place, she witnessed her parents were murdered brutally before her eyes.
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| Illustration of Nicholas and his family murder in Basement Ipatiev House |
16. In her turn, she was stabbed multiple times on chest and shot on jaws in front of her siblings. One of Killer recalled, before she died, she made sign of cross with her mother. Her corpse thrown to abandoned pit mine in Ural.
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| Illustration of the death bodies of Nicholas and his family in pit mine |
17. Her body remains just discovered in 1978, exhumed in 1991 to further identified, and buried properly alongside her family in 1998 in St. Peter & Paul Church, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Republic.
18. The family was identified by DNA sample of Grand Duke George Alexandrovich who died suddenly on road caused by tuberculosis in 1899. His blood remains on his clothes which was displayed in museum was used to identify skeletal belong to his older brother, Tsar Nicholas II.
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| Skull of Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia |
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| Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, first younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II |
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