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Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

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The clarity on this photo! How lovely she was <3

William Carrick “The milk seller (Okhtenka)” St. Petersburg, 1860s With an artist's eye and a surgeon's precision, Olga Shirnina - who works under the name Colo

Olga Nikolaevna in her regiment uniform, honoroary colonel-in-chief of the 3rd Elizavetgradsky Hussar.

The last Tsar's younger sister at home, looking very elegant and retiring; she was neither. Rather, she was kind, very down to earth, and a talented artist herself - the sale of her watercolors would later help sustain her immediate family in exile. Four years before this portrait was painted, she'd been pushed/stumbled into a marriage which was the great mistake of her life. (It was a marriage that would also remain unconsummated; her husband, Duke Peter of Oldenburg, was almost certainly…

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The Romanovs: Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895 – 1918) of Russia in her court dress

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna