[109] Her home was also a magnet for Romanov impostors, whom Olga and her family considered a menace. Brother of Tikhon Nicholaevich Kulikovsky. Their sons had moved away; labour was hard to come by; Kulikovsky suffered increasing back pain and disability, and some of Olga's remaining jewellery was stolen. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. [24] Olga took a dislike to her mother-in-law; although Eugnie, a close friend of the Dowager Empress, gave her daughter-in-law many gifts, including a ruby tiara that Napoleon had given as a present to Josphine de Beauharnais. He was named after Guri Panaev, who had been killed serving in Olga's Akhtyrsky regiment. Try again later. After the Dowager Empress's death in 1928, Olga and her husband purchased a dairy farm in Ballerup, near Copenhagen. Their bodies have never been found. While Christmas and Easter were times of celebration and extravagance, Lent was strictly observedmeat, dairy products and any form of entertainment were avoided.[9]. Olga's relationship with her mother, Empress Marie, the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, was strained and distant from childhood. [23] In March 1918, German forces advanced on the Crimea, and the revolutionary guards were replaced by German ones. They were all rescued in April 1919 by the British battleship HMS Marlborough which had been sent by King George V of the United Kingdom, the nephew of Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna. and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovichs mistress and future wife: Mathilde Feliksovna Kschessinskaya* (1872 1971), Prima Ballerina Absoluta of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, was the mistress of Nicholas II, Emperor of All Russia before his marriage, then was the mistress of Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, married Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich in 1921, later Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Head of the Romanov Family, gave Mathilde and her son the surname Romanovsky-Krasinsky, and they were formally styled Princess Maria Romanovsky-Krasinsky and Prince Vladimir Andreievich Romanovsky-Krasinsky, Mathilde Feliksovna Kschessinskaya and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich with their son Vladimir Andreievich Krasinsky. (Russian: - ) Tikhon Nikolayevich RomanovCapt. Left to Right Standing: Colonel Nikolai Kulikovsky (Grand Duchess Olgas husband), Mr. Fogel, Olga Konstantinovna Vasiljeva, Prince Andrei (Grand Duchess Xenias son). by Susan Flantzer This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Her brusqueness warred against it. mother Tikhon Nicholaevich Kulikovsky brother Private stepchild Private In a rented five-room farmhouse there, Olga gave birth to her second son, Guri Nikolaevich, on 23 April 1919. That was a fantasy. Olga was born on June 13 1882, in Peterhof. Through the intervention of neutral Norway, Helen was allowed to leave Russia in December 1918 and joined her children in Sweden. [29], After a brief stay with the Danish consul, the family were shipped to a refugee camp on the island of Bykada in the Dardanelles Strait near Istanbul, Turkey, where the Kulikovsky family shared three rooms with eleven other adults. [5], The Grand Duchess and her siblings were taught at home by private tutors. Nikolai Savvich Tikhonravov (Russian: ; 15 October 1832 - 9 December 1893) was a Russian philologist and historian of Russian literature.. Born in the Meshchovsky Uyezd of Kaluga Governorate to a doctor's family, he received secondary education at the Moscow's Third Gymnasium and, while still an 18-year old Pedagogical Institute student . He married Ruth Schwartz in October 1940. In 1986 she married Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (1917-1993) - the son of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960) and Colonel N.A. With Peter's permission, Kulikovsky moved into the 200-room residence in Sergievskaya Street, Saint Petersburg, that Peter shared with Olga. The new government retired Kulikovsky from the army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. [41] Other Russian migrs, keen to fight against the Soviets, enlisted in the German forces. Empress Marie was reserved and formal with Olga as a child, and their relationship remained a difficult one. [22] Eventually, in July 1918, after being transferred to Yekaterinburg, Nicholas and his family were killed by their Bolshevik guards. Tikhon Kulikovsky - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage In a letter she wrote, " finish with the divorce now during the war while all eyes and minds are occupied elsewhereand such a small thing would be lost in all the greater things". [13] However, in 1894, Olga's father became increasingly ill, and the annual trip to Denmark was cancelled. Nicholas, Alexandra, and their children were originally held at their official residence, the Alexander Palace, but the Provisional government under Alexander Kerensky relocated them to Tobolsk, Siberia. [46] Uprisings occurred throughout the country, and parts of the navy mutinied. [26] In the Caucasus, Kulikovsky took a job working on a farm as he was unable to secure a military posting in the White Army because the commanding general, Anton Denikin, wished to avoid association with the Romanovs. 25 Aug 1917, d. 9 Apr 1993; Gouri Kulikovsky + b. ": Letter from Olga to Princess Irene, quoted in Klier and Mingay, p. 149, Xenia to Michael Thornton, quoted in a letter from Thornton to Patricia Phenix, 10 January 1998, quoted in Phenix, pp. At the end of her life and afterwards, Olga was widely labelled the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia. Nikolai Kulikovsky - Wikipedia Guri Nikolaevich - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage [49] The family proceeded to Toronto, where they lived until they purchased a 200-acre (0.8km2) farm in Halton County, Ontario, near Campbellville. 9495. Add to your scrapbook. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. Tihon Nikolaievich Kulikovski (1917-1993) FamilySearch "[18] From 1901 Olga served as the honorary Commander-in-Chief of the 12th Akhtyrsky Hussar Regiment[ru] of the Imperial Russian Army. Olga and Peter had separate bedrooms at opposite ends of the building, and the Grand Duchess had her own art studio. In 1903, he was noticed by Grand Duchess Olga during a military review, and they became close friends. Information gathered from articles at Unofficial Royalty: Tsardom of Russia/Russian Empire Index, Wikipedia, and the resources cited below. [115] She slipped into a coma on 21 November 1960, and died on 24 November at the age of 78. Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky* (1881 1958), Olgas second husband, Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (1917 1993) Princess Elena Georgievna Romanovskaya, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (1892 1971) Guri Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (1919 1984). [8], Though Olga repeatedly asked Tsar Nicholas II to allow her to divorce, her brother refused on religious and dynastic grounds; he believed marriage was for life and that royalty should marry within royalty. [58] His estate was valued at 12,123.47Canadian dollars,[59] about 98,000Canadian dollars as of 2012. [17] Dowager Empress Marie, Grand Duke Alexander, Grand Duchess Olga, and Kulikovsky managed to escape to the Crimea where they lived for a time before they too were placed under house arrest at one of the imperial estates. Timofei Ksenofontovich Yatchik, the former imperial bodyguard, guarded Empress Maria Feodorovna until her death in 1928 and then lived the rest of his life in Denmark. Mrs. Anderson did not seem to understand a word of Russian or English, the two languages all the four sisters had spoken since babyhood. Tatianas daughter Princess Natalia Bagration of Mukhrani and Tatianas mother Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna, Prince Teymuraz Bagration of Mukhrani (1912 1992) Tikhon and Guri, served as officers in the Danish Army, they were interned as prisoners of war, but their imprisonment in a Copenhagen hotel lasted . [26] Biographer Patricia Phenix thought Olga may have accepted his proposal to gain independence from her own mother, the Dowager Empress, or to avoid marriage into a foreign court. Son of Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsk and Olga Aleksandrovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia [48] After a rough crossing, the ship docked at Halifax, Nova Scotia. [112] She was not informed[113] or was not aware[114] that her elder sister, Xenia, died in London that month. [24] Their marriage remained unconsummated,[25] and Olga suspected that Peter's ambitious mother had pushed him into proposing. There was an error deleting this problem. Empress Marie helped tend the wounded and made makeshift bandages from her own clothes. Photos of Capt Tihon Nickolaevich Romanoff - Find a Grave 9 January]1905), Cossack troops killed at least 92 people during a demonstration,[45] and a month later Olga's uncle, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, was assassinated. [16], Olga was due to enter society in mid-1899 at the age of 17, but after the death of her brother George at the age of 28, her first official public appearance was delayed by a year until 1900. Tikhon Kulikovsky + b. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [35] The farm-estate became a center for the Russian monarchist and anti-Bolshevik community in Denmark. Czar Aleksandr III Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family [56], By 1952, Kulikovsky had shrunk more than 4inches (10cm) from his peak height of 6ft 2inches (188cm). Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yurievskaya (1878 1959), daughter of Alexander II, Emperor of All Russia and his morganatic second wife Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova, Princess Yurievskaya. Geni requires JavaScript! He died there on the night of 11 August 1958. who escaped Russia on a British warship in 1919, and Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Helen served as a nurse during World War I and then joined her husband in the Urals but she was arrested and was imprisoned in Perm and later Moscow. Possibly, she was pressured to do so by Kulikovsky and Dowager Empress Marie. . With the help of a White Army officer, they walked for three days, crossing the frozen Lake Ladoga, the largest lake entirely in Europe. [43] With the end of the war, Soviet troops occupied the easternmost part of Denmark, and Olga grew fearful of an assassination or kidnap attempt. [14] Their two-week honeymoon was spent in a farmhouse in Podgorny that had belonged to family friends of the Kulikovskys. [61] In November 1918, the German forces were informed that their nation had lost the war, and they evacuated homewards. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich* (1866 1933), son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich (son of Nicholas I, Emperor of All Russia), husband of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, daughter of Alexander III, Emperor of All Russia and sister of Nicholas II, Emperor of All Russia. The Art of the Last Romanov Grand Duchess of Russia", "Majestic Artist: 125th birth anniversary of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna", "Exhibition of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna's Watercolours Opens in Vladivostok", "The Unfading Light of Charity: Grand Duchess Olga As a Philanthropist And Painter", HIH Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Memorial Fund, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna-Royal Russia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand_Duchess_Olga_Alexandrovna_of_Russia&oldid=1150311222, Crawford, Rosemary; Crawford, Donald (1997), von Nidda, Roland Krug (1958) Commentary in, This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 11:59. He was born into a military landowning family from the south of the Russian Empire, and followed the family tradition by entering the army. Olga's parents and their four older children were eating lunch in the dining-car when the train lurched violently and came off the rails. [95], With the end of World War II, Soviet troops occupied the Danish island of Bornholm, and the Soviet Union wrote to the Danish government accusing Olga and a Danish Catholic bishop of conspiracy against the Soviet government. These feelings of gratefulness to God pervaded not only the icons created by the Grand Duchess, but also her portraits and still life paintings. [47] Olga supported the appointment of the liberal Pyotr Stolypin as prime minister, and he embarked on a programme of gradual reform, but in 1911 he was assassinated. The Yugoslav Regent Alexander Karageorgevich, later to become King Alexander I, offered them a permanent home there, but Dowager Empress Marie summoned her daughter to Denmark. [82][83] She told her official biographer, "I never received any such telegram. Failed to report flower. Read more about them by using the links on their names. I thought Mrs. Anderson looked much older than that. Are you sure that you want to delete this flower? Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley* (1865 1929), morganatic second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (son of Alexander II, Emperor of All Russia), who was killed by the Bolsheviks in January 1919, and mother of Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley who was killed by the Bolsheviks in July 1918, Princess Natalia Paley and Princess Irina Paley, Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley (1903 1990) and Grand Duke Peter Nicholaievichs wife: Grand Duchess Militza Nicholaievna (1866 1951), born Princess Milica of Montenegro, wife Grand Duke Peter Nicholaievich, sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaievna above. Her estate was sold and Olga purchased Knudsminde, a farm in Ballerup about 15miles (24km) from Copenhagen, with her portion of the proceeds. The mistakes she made could not all be attributed to lapses of memory. Tikhon Nikolaevich - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage Antonina Rafailovna Nesterovskaya (1890 1950), Gavrils morganatic wife, a ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, later Princess Romanovskaya-Strelninskaya. There is not one tittle of genuine evidence in the story. Olga wanted to divorce her first husband, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, and marry Kulikovsky, but neither her husband nor her brother, the Tsar, would allow it. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna (1909 1967). [64] He was named after a friend of hers, Guri Panayev, who was killed while serving in the Akhtyrsky Regiment during World War I. Father of Private Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov (1887 1967), Irinas husband and one of the murderers of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin Livia Sebestyn from tree Albert Snyder Family Tree. She was kind to her, and because of her kindness of heart, her opinions and motives have been misrepresented. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. They traveled through Kyiv and Odessa, and finally into Romania at the invitation of Queen Marie of Romania in 1919. (see below) Capt Tihon Nickolaevich Romanoff Kulikovsky (1917-1993) - Find a Grave Many times Olga and her daughters had to lie down on the ice and be covered with a white sheet to avoid being seen. [33], Without a role or rank, Kulikovsky brooded in Denmark, becoming moody and listless. Olga and the Dowager Empress were showered with glass splinters from a smashed window, but remained unharmed. In 1925, Olga and Colonel Kulikovsky travelled to Berlin to meet Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Olga's niece, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. He was also the grandson of Tsar Alexander III and the nephew of Tsar Nicholas II.Tikhon Nicholaevich KulikovskyBirthdate: August 25, 1917Birthplace: Ai-Todor, Gaspra, Crimea, Russia (Russian Federation)Death: April 08, 1993 Toronto, Toronto Division, Ontario, CanadaPlace of Burial: Toronto, Toronto Division, Ontario, CanadaImmediate Family:Son of Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsk and Olga Aleksandrovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of RussiaHusband of Livia SebesteynEx-husband of Agnete Carla KulikovskyBrother of Guri Nikolaevich Kulikovsky"Olga Kulikovsky was born on 9 January 1964 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsk and Olga Aleksandrovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia Tikhon Nicholaevich Kulikovsky (1917 - 1993) - Genealogy Tikhon Nicholaevich Kulikovsky public profile View Complete Profile Historical records matching Tikhon Nicholaevich Kulikovsky Tikhon Nicholaevich Kulikovsky in WikiTree Captain Tihon (Tikhon) Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanoff in FamilySearch Family Tree [1], The Russian imperial family was a frequent target for assassins, so for safety reasons the Grand Duchess was raised at the country palace of Gatchina, about 50miles (80km) west of Saint Petersburg. Olga, her daughters, and the White Army officer walked across the lake to Finland and continued to the safety of the city of Helsinki. [76] Within a month she had made up her mind. Olga commented, "[Princess Irene] was one of the most straightlaced women in her generation. She met Anna Anderson, the best-known impostor, in Berlin in 1925. As Olga's sons, Tikhon and Guri, served as officers in the Danish Army, they were interned as prisoners of war, but their imprisonment in a Copenhagen hotel lasted less than two months. [105] Mimka suffered a stroke that left her disabled, and Olga nursed her until Mimka's death on 24 January 1954. In contrast, she and her father were close. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. The following month they were freed by the Germans who had occupied the area after signing the Treaty of Brest Litovsk. Try again. [13] Only the officiating priest, Olga's mother the Dowager Empress Marie, Olga's brother-in-law Grand Duke Alexander, two fellow nurses from the hospital in Kiev and four officers of the Akhtyrsky regiment, of which Olga was honorary colonel, attended. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia | Detailed Pedia The Romanovs under house arrest at Ai-Todor in the Crimea in 1918. [31] At Ramon, Olga and Peter enjoyed walking through the nearby woods and hunted wolves together. [73] Nevertheless, Olga remained sympathetic towards Anderson, perhaps because she thought that she was ill rather than deliberately deceitful. Romanovs Who Survived the Russian Revolution (Revised) Children. Yatchik, the former bodyguard, accompanied Olga and her family as they traveled to Rostov-on-Don and then to Novorossiysk where the Danish consul Thomas Schytte gave them refuge in his home. [31] Her daughter-in-law later wrote, "She tried to help every needy person as far as her strengths and means would permit. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. He showed it to me in secret, and I was thrilled to have him share his own childhood secrets with me. [53] During the war, she came under heavy Austrian fire while attending the regiment at the front. After the assassination of her husband in 1913, Olga returned to Russia. With advancing age, Olga and her husband moved to a bungalow near Cooksville, Ontario. She was born in the purple (i.e., during her father's reign) on 13 June 1882 in the Peterhof Palace, west of central Saint Petersburg. Reportedly, she walked miles without food, suffering great hardship. [75] Anderson's biographer and supporter Peter Kurth claimed that Olga wrote to the Danish ambassador, Herluf Zahle, at the end of October 1925: "My feeling is that she is not the one she believesbut one can't say she is not as a fact". Her brother was deposed in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Kulikovsky was dismissed from the army by the revolutionary government. Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) - Wikipedia [20] Although the grandson of an emperor and the nephew of another, Tikhon received no titles because his father was a commoner. The emotional impact on Olga, aged 12, was traumatic,[15] and her eldest brother, the new Tsar Nicholas II, was propelled into a role for which, in Olga's later opinion, he was ill-prepared. They lived with the Dowager Empress, at first at the Amalienborg Palace and then at the royal estate of Hvidre, where Olga acted as her mother's secretary and companion. Make sure that the file is a photo. [111] Following her husband's death in 1958, she became increasingly infirm until hospitalized in April 1960 at Toronto General Hospital. When Guri Nikolaievich Kulikovski was born on 23 April 1919, in Novo, Vologda Oblast, Russia, his father, Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky, was 37 and his mother, Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna Romanova of Russia, was 36. Prince Nicholas Vladimirovich Orlov (1891 1961), husband of Nadezhda George and his nanny safely reached the Danish Embassy in Berlin where they were given shelter by the ambassador Count Carl Moltke. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. I never sent any telegrams, or gave my sister any advice about her visit to Berlin. . Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8315260/tihon-nickolaevich-kulikovsky. [21] Peter asked for Olga's hand in marriage the following year, a proposal that took the Grand Duchess completely by surprise: "I was so taken aback that all I could say was 'thank you'," she later explained. She led a simple life: raising her two sons, working on the farm and painting. He left Russia with his son Andrei and Andreis wife on the British ship HMS Forsythe in December 1918 to attend the Paris Peace Conference as the representative of the Romanov family, seeking support in western Europe for the White Army. During the First World War, Olga served as an army nurse and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. [19] With the Grand Duchess's prior medical knowledge from the village of Olgino, she started work as a nurse at an under-staffed Red Cross hospital in Rovno, near to where her own regiment was stationed. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. [39] Olga prized her connection to the Tsar's four daughters. After a brief stay in the Amalienborg Palace, the Kulikovskys moved to Holte, near Klampenborg,[35] where a Danish millionaire, Gorm Rasmussen, engaged Kulikovsky to manage his stables. Ten weeks later she feigned illness and was transferred to a nursing home from which she managed to escape. The Bolsheviks had installed light projectors around the lake which they used to find people attempting to escape. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. At the time of the abdication of Nicholas II, Emperor of All Russia on March 15, 1917, these Romanovs were living in other countries: Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich* (1891 1942), son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (son of Alexander II, Emperor of All Russia) who was killed by the Bolsheviks in January 1919, half-brother of Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley who was killed by the Bolsheviks in July 1918, Dmitri had been exiled to Persia (now Iran) for his role in the murder of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich (1861 1929), son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich (son of Nicholas I, Emperor of All Russia), Michael was living in exile in London, England because of his morganatic marriage to Countess Sophie von Merenberg, later Countess de Torby. She was the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Two years later, as her health deteriorated, Olga moved with friends to a small apartment in East Toronto. He was famed for his stature and incredible physical strength, often the six foot four inch, seventeen stones, Tzar would astonish his guests by bending horse-shoes and twisting metal .
