Figure 1.--This brilliant study of Princess Olga Alexandrovna was painted by Valentin Serov was painted in 1893. It is one og many portraits of the RoyalmDamily. She would have been about 11 years old. It is oil on canvas and now hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Princess Olga Alexandrovna's parents were Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Dagmar. She was born (1882) shortly after her grandfather was assainated and her father became Tsar. She was the royal famuly's youngest child. Her older brother was the future Tsar Nicholas II. Princess Olga was made a Grand Duchess. Tsar Alexander was a bear of a man, but he could be tender toward his children--especially the girls. One family portrait shows him holding Princess Olga very tenderly. Serov painted her at age 11 (1893). She married Prince Peter of Oldenburg when she was 19 years old. They did not, however, get along and there were no children. She met and fell in love with a military officer, captain Kulikovsky (1903). They were unble to actually marry because of the conservative Tsarist regime. Finally with the War and softenting inhibitions the two married (1916). There were two sons: Tikhon (1917�93) and Guri Nikolaevich (1919�84). Olga during the War worked as an army nurse. Xenia and Olga were able to escape Russia along with their mother during the Revolution. She lived in Denmark with her mother who was a Danish Princess (1919-48). She then moved to Canada where she lived on her farm (1948-60?).

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