Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna - Artist Info

About Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

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Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna, Olga Alexandrova, Olga Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess Olga, Olga Alexandrovna Romanov, Olga Alexandrovna Romanova
  • Biography

    Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (AKA: Olga, AKA: Olga Alexandrovna, AKA: Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, AKA: Olga Alexandrovna Kulikovsky Romanova) (1) was a painter. She was also the daughter of Tsar Alexander III, sister of Tsar Nicolas II, and one of the few members of the immediate Russian royal family to survive the Bolshevik Revolution.

    She was born at Peterhof Palace, near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Until the revolution she was an active and integral member of the innermost circle of the royal family. In 1920 she escaped to Denmark, her mother's homeland, and in 1948, fearing retaliation from Stalin (2), emigrated to Ontario, Canada. She lived near Toronto for the rest of her life wher...

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