In Olga's diaries for the years 1915-1917, we meet almost every time the name of Mitia, a young wounded officier she liked very much. Who was he? I will try to give some informations, perhaps will someone complete them.
Dmitri Shah-Bagov was born the 9th of Februry 1893. He was a Caucasian guy, perhaps from Georgia, I do not know exactly. He was an orthodox believer. He was an officier (praporshik, I think it is a brigadier in english?) of the Erevan's Regiment (Tsar Mihail Fedorovich's grenadiers). He was a little man. At time of the WW1 he was wounded 2 time and stayed quite a long wile at the lazaret where ON was working. He arrived in pring 1915, and they saw each other for the last time the 27 december 1916. Olga remarked him very quickly as a "sweet", pleasant young man. In her diary, she noticed every meeting, every time they spoke or played together. She telephoned him almost every evening, and was used to chat with him. Her sister Tatiana was part of those evening's telephone conversation. Olga and Tatiana wrote every in their diaries who they made the pansement. When ON made pansement to "Mitia", she explained what she did exactly (a bath for his leg, pansement...) When TN was in charge of his pansement, she noticed it also. At the beginning, their feeling are sweets, not more. With the time, especially after he went, her feeling are becoming more deeper. She needs to see him, she is waiting. When his is back, she fells great joy. She noticed every telegramm someone became from him, she noticed every anniversary (one year ago, he came hier, one year ago, he was leaved us for the first time...). She noticed every meeting with Mitia's mother, "a part of him".
The last months of 1916, however, came in the lazaret the young cornet Kassianov, "a very beautiful guy", as wrote Tatiana to her father. He had in common with Olga Nikolaevna a great love and talent for music, played the violin and sang. He did not took Mitia's place in Olga's thoughs. But she was not so busy with him.
What could we say about this relationship? It is the relationship of two loving people who know for sure they would neve marry each other. It was a poetic relationship, already deep, but clear. I would say also that Olga, as wrote Chebotareva, was seriously attached to him, as her diary relates us. But it seems to me that she found in him what every girl, daugher of tsar or daugher of mujik needs: to have the sensation she loves someone and someone loves her.
In an other post, a little bit later, I will try to quote all the diary entries
