Author Topic: Is it true that Olga couldn't swim?  (Read 32110 times)

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« Reply #45 on: February 20, 2009, 11:31:30 AM »
I do remember reading one of her letters (I forget who it's to) and she said that despite all the sailors available to teach her, she never really learned how to swim.

That does sound vaguely familiar -- can you find the quote?


This is from LPT, page 145.
"A sailor from the Standard was entrusted with teaching the Grand Duchesses to swim, but years later Olga would confess in a letter to friend that she never learned!"

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« Reply #46 on: February 20, 2009, 06:21:33 PM »
Thanks for the fragment of letter, tian79.

What year was it? There's a possibility she learned several years after.

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« Reply #47 on: February 20, 2009, 09:52:31 PM »
I think she wrote it somwhere around 1916.
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« Reply #48 on: February 21, 2009, 03:31:53 AM »
Hm..When was the last time they sailed around the Black sea or went to Finland?
I think she learned a bit.

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« Reply #49 on: February 21, 2009, 08:13:59 AM »
The last cruise on the Standart was in the summer of 1914. The IF's last visit to the Crimea (Evpatoria) was in May of 1916.

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« Reply #50 on: February 21, 2009, 09:05:29 AM »
16 May 1916. Also, IF visited Sebastopole in 1915.  :)
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« Reply #51 on: March 02, 2009, 09:07:31 AM »
I have seen pictures of Olga swimming but they are only taken near the beach. So It could be that Olga never learned to swim long then she could reach by standing up in the water.

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« Reply #52 on: March 02, 2009, 09:08:45 AM »
That's what I thought,too.

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« Reply #53 on: March 15, 2009, 06:31:33 PM »
I have seen pictures of Olga swimming but they are only taken near the beach. So It could be that Olga never learned to swim long then she could reach by standing up in the water.

there was a quote that Olga said, specifically saying that she didn't know how to swim.
Only she was taught, but never really grasped the concept.

does anybody  have that?

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« Reply #54 on: May 16, 2009, 09:57:56 AM »
I haven't seen the photo in ages of her swimming with a Sailor sort of watching over her.   It looked like she was dog paddling or the least holding a kickboard.

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Re: Is it true that Olga couldn't swim?
« Reply #56 on: June 29, 2009, 07:37:31 PM »
It's very interesting