Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

Non-fiction

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

Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Republic

07.10.17

Olga received letters from little Olga and Tatiana describing their life in Tobolsk. Everything that is happening to them is scary, horrible, scandalous. We got a chance to pass our letters to Petrograd with Xenia's butler who left today.

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Maria Feodorovna with Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire

05.08.17

My beautiful Chifu died last night. What grief! Both my Cossaks were very compassionate, they brought her to me in a basket. We buried my beautiful Chifu after tea.

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Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire

10.07.17

I haven’t been outside - it was too hot, I spent my day reading. My mood is getting more and more gloomy and melancholic. Thankfully, there is some good news from the front, a lot of people have been captured, and many guns taken.

At four in the afternoon I came downstairs to join Olga, there was tea waiting for me and other delicacies.

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Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

18.06.17

We expected that a son would be born, but the birth of a fourth girl did not, to any extent, reduce the love of her relatives to her. She was not even a year old, but she already managerd to win universal affection with her amusing manners, her cheerful character and a sonorous laugh. She really is a Shwybzick. At thirteen, Anastasia began to get fat, despite the fact that she moved a lot. In addition, she was much shorter than her sisters. See more

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4 years ago

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

recalls the celebrations for the three-hundred-year anniversary of the Romanov dynasty (6-8 March 1913):

Petrograd, Russian Empire

06.03.17

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In the People's House opened on the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, 1913

There was such glitter and such splendour, but everything seemed false and laboured. Aliki was quite worn out and almost fainted during the ball. As I looked at all the festive illuminations, and attended one ball after another I had the strange feeling that, although we were celebrating in the same way as we had for centuries, some new and terrible circumstances were appearing around us, due to forces beyond our control.

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Age: 35

Brother

Nicholas II

Mother

Maria Feodorovna

Sister

Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna

Friends

Grand Duchess Anastasia

Alexandra Feodorovna

Grand Duchess Olga

Tsarevich Alexei

Grand Duchess Tatiana

Grand Duchess Maria