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The Last Grand Duchess
A memoir of one of the last of the Romanovs.
25 Chapters of My Life
The Grand Duchess Olga records her life with an artist's eye for detail, against the backdrop of the historical events which shook the world.
Ekaterinburg
History.
Olga Romanov
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The Diary of Olga Romanov
In August 1914, Russia entered World War I, and with it, the imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict they would not survive. His eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had begun a diary in 1905 when she was ten years old and kept writing her thoughts and impressions of day-to-day life as a grand duchess until abruptly ending her entries when her father abdicated his throne in March 1917. Held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Olga's diaries during the wartime period have never been translated into English until this volume. At the outset of the war, Olga and her sister Tatiana worked as nurses in a military hospit...
Once a Grand Duchess
This biography of Xenia, sister of Nicholas II gives a new angle on the Romanov story and provides new information on relationships within the family after the Revolution. Important new letters and photographs are also included.
Six Years at the Russian Court
Margaret Eager (1863 — 1936), was the Irish nanny to the four daughters of Emperor and Empress Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, from 1898 to 1904. This classic, written in 1906, contains the following chapters: 1. Concerning My Journey 2. Concerning the Winter Palace 3. Concerning St. Petersburg 4. Concerning St. Petersburg 5. Concerning Easter 6. Concerning Peterhoff 7. Concerning Father John 8. A Glimpse of Poland 9. The Rough Life of the Russian Peasantry 10. Searching for the Magic Bloom 11. A Russian Christmas 12. Life in the Kremlin 13. In Belovege 14. The Young Officer and the Dolls 15. The Little Prison Opener 16. My First Meeting With the King 17. Lost in the Forest 18. Concerning the Children 19. Chersonese 20. The Priest 21. Princess Ella 22. The Outbreak of War 23. The Russian Soldiers 24. Attacks on the Czar’s Life 25. Social Life in Russia 26. Post Office Vagaries in Russia 27. The True Story of Kishineff 28. The Russian Clergy 29. More About the Children 30. Education in Russia 31. The Birth of an Heir
Princess Olga
"Princess Olga Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. She is the youngest child of the late Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, who was born in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1897. He fled Russia in 1918 with his pregnant (first) wife and his father, Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich, while his mother, Grand Duchess Xenia, and his grandmother, Her Imperial Highness Maria Feodorovna, followed a year later. The fabled Romanov jewels that they were able to smuggle out had to be sold and the exiled family lived for some time at various grace-and-favour homes at Windsor and Hampton Court. The book is pepper...
Queen Victoria and The Romanovs
Alexander III called Victoria ‘a pampered, sentimental, selfish old woman,’ while to her he was a sovereign whom she could not regard as a gentleman. But the Queen's son and two of her granddaughters married Romanovs.
The Last Grand Duchess
“Powerful and haunting . . . an intimate and unforgettable tale that transports the reader to the heart of Imperial Russia.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the first daughter of the last tsar Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for her and her three sisters: hiding from the world on account of their mother’s il...
