Olga Paley

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Age: 52

Lives in: Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Title: Princess

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Olga Paley

Pashkovsky lane, 2, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

11.01.18

In honour of VladimirDuke, lieutenant, poet.'s twenty-first birthday, his coming of age, we lit up the tree again and put back the presents on it. The little girls and he had a charming surprise for us, a piece of verse of his composition, entitled " l'Assiette de Delft." Irene and Nathalie, coached by my son, played it to perfection.

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Olga Paley with Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich

1, Smolny proezd, Smolny, Petrograd, Russian Republic

15.11.17

Next day, early, I took the children, Miss White, Jacqueline and my maid, and we installed ourselves in the flat of my daughter Olga Kreutz. At three o'clock in the afternoon I went to Smolny with my permit in the hope of carrying back my husband with me. I remained with him until six.

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Olga Paley

Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

27.09.17

Now that we were free it was the moment to take flight from Tsarskoe, after this first warning which showed that even the Grand Duke, who had been so popular formerly with the troops and who had not been disquieted until then, was no longer safe. . . . Alas! there was no lack of opportunities for flight. See more

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Olga Paley

House with services and a garden on Pashkov Lane, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

26.09.17

Our captivity lasted eighteen days. As long as we kept to our rooms they left us in peace and our life did not seem much changed, but the moment we wished to move out and take the air our vexations began. See more

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Olga Paley

House with services and a garden on Pashkov Lane, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

20.09.17

One day I was walking up and down in front of the house, the officer on duty who was walking behind me and who had seemed until then not to notice me, murmured to me as he passed: See more

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Olga Paley

House with services and a garden on Pashkov Lane, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

09.09.17

At nine o’clock we were told that a commissar of Kerensky’s called Kuzmin had come with a convoy of ten men and wanted to speak to us. Kuzmin took three papers out of his pocket which he read to us, one after the other. They said that in view of the possible disturbances, and because of the approach of KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917, with the aim of restoring the monarchy, the Provisional Government thought it necessary to put (there followed each of our names) under house arrest and that the garrison at Tsarksoe Selo was charged with guarding us. See more

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Olga Paley

Pashkovsky lane, 2, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

24.04.17

Our excellent automobile was one of the first to disappear, and after it was used to ferry around the members of the Provisional Government, it was to this very automobile that the honor fell of picking up Lenin on his arrival to the Finlyandsky Station.

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Olga Paley

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

13.04.17

I came to ask you to let us leave Russia: me, Grand Duke Pavel and our children.

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Alexander Kerensky

To leave? For where?

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Olga Paley

Pashkovsky lane, 2, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

16.03.17

After saluting and apologising for such a late hour (it was half past four in the morning), the colonel read the manifest of abdication to us. The grand duke and I were astounded. After composing myself I began to shake, my teeth clattering. The downfall of the Empire - we understood perfectly well that it was a downfall indeed - revealed itself before us in all its horror.

At eleven hours the duke went to the empress. It might appear to be unbelievable, but the poor woman knew nothing about the abdication of her husband.

No member of her entourage had the courage to deliver this blow. All five children were sick with measles; the two elder ones and the youngest one were getting better, but grand duchess Maria (the third one) and the heir felt very poorly. The grand duke silently entered the room and kissed her hand, unable to utter even a single word. His heart was on the verge of tearing itself apart. The empress, dressed in a plain nurse outfit, astounded him with her calm and clear sight.

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Olga Paley

Pashkovsky lane, 2, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

12.03.17

The ground is truly giving way underneath our feet. The prisons are wide open, and their malcontents have positioned themselves at the heads of political movements. Slowly but surely our regiments are going over to the enemy camp, and rumors abound that the First Infrantry Regiment billeted at Tsarskoye Selo has thrown in its lot with the rebels.

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Olga Paley

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

11.03.17

The first red banner has appeared, a vile rag.

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Olga Paley

Petrograd, Russian Empire

20.02.17

One eminent Russian lady ventured to pen a letter of unprecedented nerve to the Empress. I saw this letter, written in a careless and hasty hand on pages torn out of a notebook. Among other things, she wrote the following: “Leave us, in our eyes you're a foreigner.” Naturally, the Empress was mortally offended.

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Age: 52

Lives in: Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Title: Princess