Olga Alexandrovna was born in 1882 the last child of Maria Feodorovna and Tsar Alexander the third. She was their only child to be born when Alexander was Tsar. Olga was a quiet child who liked a more reserved life she liked playing the violon and taking photographs and would prefer the company of pets rather than ladies in waiting.
In the spring of 1901 Olga was engaged to Duke Peter of Oldenburd, Olga was only 18. It was a loveless marrriage and she later decsribed it as 'a empty sham' she said that she felt she'd been tricked into marrying him. There are conflicting reports as to whether he actually loved Olga some saying that he gambled away the money gained from his wedding others saying he was genuinely in love with her (he started letters with things like 'My dearest, sweet Olga.')
In 1903 she met a officer Nikolai Kulikovsky and fell in love with him, 13 years later her first marriage was annulled and she was able to marry him in a quiet ceremony, her mother was present. They had two sons Tihon and Guri, OLga was able to escape from Russia because she had married a commoner and when in captivity she and her husband were given more freedom then the other captives. After this there were many moves, firstly to Caucasus where their second son was born, then to Denmark with the Dowager empress, whhere OLga stayed as a companion to her mother until her mother's death in 1928, Olga stayed in Denmark untill 1948 when they were once again forced to leave becasue of German occupation and finally settled in Canada where Olga stayed for the rest of her life, she and her husband had a farm there that had to be eventually given up when Olga and her husband became too old to mantain it. Throughout her time in Russia OLga channelled her love of painting into making many beautiful paintings that she could sell to raise money. Her husband died in 1958 (?) and Olga in 1960 whyilst living in a flat above a hairdressers.
Sorry if there are any spelling mistakes, which there probably are and if there's any misinformation once again I'm sorry.
It's a good thing to have all the information gathered together as oppsoed to having lots of random pieces of information scatterred in different threads.
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Rachael
