I really enjoyed watching this video seeing lots of photographs that I hadn't seen before. I love all four of the Grand Duchesses, Tatiana was the beautiful enigma, Maria was the broody Russian beauty and Anastasia was the mischievous monkey! Then we have Olga. In my opinion she was as beautiful as Tatiana and Maria but in her own way (before anyone starts Anastasia was beautiful too!). Men were fascinated by Tatiana but Olga was the one getting marriage proposals and prospective suitors. Olga was quite a complicated character, she was highly intelligent, charming, kind, always reading (out of the five children she was the only one who knew what was really going on in the outside world), she cared about people- her Mother's friend Anna said that had she lived Olga could have been quite an influential woman. But Olga was a Grand Duchess and pretty much stuck in the Palace when all she really wanted was to get married and live a quiet life in the country with her husband and children; like her sister Maria she wanted her own little family. During the war Olga became a nurse. She liked meeting people but she didn't like seeing the horrors in the hospital, the bloody wounds and people dying in front of her. Olga was quite a sensitive soul so seeing all of that soon took it's toll and she had a nervous breakdown which meant she needed rest, Arsenic injections (she complained that it made her stink of garlic!) and massages too. She was also anaemic too and lost weight. She read the newspapers and worried about everyone around her. Fearing for her safety she even carried a small handgun in her boot (things had got that bad!). After her Father abdicated and returned to the Palace he spent many hours shut away in his study with Olga talking through everything that had happened- it speaks volumes that he did this with Olga and not Alexandra and I would have loved to be a fly on that wall hearing what was being said! Then Olga and the family were moved to Tobolsk where her friend Rita famously came to see her but Rita instead was arrested and sent home without seeing Olga! Then the family was moved to Yekaterinburg where the guards said later that it was obvious that Olga knew what was in store for them. May she and the rest of the Imperial family rest in peace ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤xxx #otma #naotmaa
sorry it would help me if you could slow down in speech a bit, as it is so interesting to hear about her life but the speed is a little too fast for me.
The girls were all beautiful! What a crime that they, their brother and parents were murdered! Such a pity too that Nicholas was too proud to put aside autocratic rule and embrace constitutional monarchy as the English Royal Family had done, and then they all might have been spared...
Well becoming a constitutional monarch is what Louis XVI did and it didn’t work too well for him and Marie Antoinette. The thing is that once the tsar handed over power there was a risk that the process gets ever more radical and dangerous. England did indeed have a constitutional monarchy but to get there Charles I lost his head. A lot of people say that Nicholas and Alexandra were clueless rulers but I think they knew their history. On the other hand I see possibilities if World War One did not occur. The Russian economy and culture are quite strong in 1914 and technology promised improvements. Olga and Tatiana were becoming more known thanks to the tercentenary. I see Olga anyway as staying in Russia, perhaps a modernizing influence.
What solid proof do we have of her nervous breakdown? I'm kind of on the fence for it, and more inclined to think of it as anemia compounded with teenage hormones and moodiness.
@@DuchessTatianapage Well, I do think that the "nervous breakdown" idea comes mainly from Anna Vyrubova's memoirs: "Olga within two months was almost too exhausted and too unnerved to continue". Of course there are those incidents mentioned, but as to the breaking-the-windows one, Anastasia and Maria also broke windows, so I don't think it was really because of Olga's instability. As to the second one, I am not saying you are wrong but I'd love the source! There's also Semyon Pavlov who talked of her nerves, though not in an extreme manner. (But I don't speak Russian, so I may be wrong.) But Olga's ill health seems to have begun around October 1915, far more than the two months in that Vyrubova described. My view that it was anemia or at least something similar is from Valentina Cheborateva's note that Olga "developed severe anemia, they put her to bed for a week, but with permission to come to the infirmary for a half hour for the arsenic injections." My guess is that Olga did have strain from the gruesomeness of hospital work but her main complaint was still anemia.
@@DuchessTatianapage I think that the "nervous breakdown" idea comes mainly from Anna Vyrubova's memories: "Olga within two months was almost too exhausted and too unnerved to continue". Of course there are those incidents mentioned, but as to the breaking-the-windows one, Anastasia and Maria also broke windows, so I don't think it was really because of Olga's instability. As to the second one, I am not saying you are wrong but I'd love the source! There's also Semyon Pavlov who talked of her nerves, though not in an extreme manner. (But I don't speak Russian, so I may be wrong.) But Olga's ill health seems to have begun around October 1915, far more than the two months in that Vyrubova described. My view that it was anemia or at least something similar is from Valentina Cheborateva's note that Olga "developed severe anemia, they put her to bed for a week, but with permission to come to the infirmary for a half hour for the arsenic injections." My guess is that Olga did have strain from the gruesomeness of hospital work but her main complaint was still anemia.
Anemia can be brought on by stress especially when the persons reaction to it is to stop eating (some people over eat). And then the anemia causes the anxiety to increase even more, like a vicious feedback loop. Aside from the sight of mutilated bodies there was the fact that politically aware Olga was also starting to realize the growing unpopularity of her father’s rule. Add to that the impossible love for Mitya, you have the perfect cocktail. I’m sure the arsenic didn’t help.
Beautiful tribute. Thank you ❤
I really enjoyed watching this video seeing lots of photographs that I hadn't seen before. I love all four of the Grand Duchesses, Tatiana was the beautiful enigma, Maria was the broody Russian beauty and Anastasia was the mischievous monkey!
Then we have Olga. In my opinion she was as beautiful as Tatiana and Maria but in her own way (before anyone starts Anastasia was beautiful too!). Men were fascinated by Tatiana but Olga was the one getting marriage proposals and prospective suitors. Olga was quite a complicated character, she was highly intelligent, charming, kind, always reading (out of the five children she was the only one who knew what was really going on in the outside world), she cared about people- her Mother's friend Anna said that had she lived Olga could have been quite an influential woman. But Olga was a Grand Duchess and pretty much stuck in the Palace when all she really wanted was to get married and live a quiet life in the country with her husband and children; like her sister Maria she wanted her own little family.
During the war Olga became a nurse. She liked meeting people but she didn't like seeing the horrors in the hospital, the bloody wounds and people dying in front of her. Olga was quite a sensitive soul so seeing all of that soon took it's toll and she had a nervous breakdown which meant she needed rest, Arsenic injections (she complained that it made her stink of garlic!) and massages too. She was also anaemic too and lost weight. She read the newspapers and worried about everyone around her. Fearing for her safety she even carried a small handgun in her boot (things had got that bad!).
After her Father abdicated and returned to the Palace he spent many hours shut away in his study with Olga talking through everything that had happened- it speaks volumes that he did this with Olga and not Alexandra and I would have loved to be a fly on that wall hearing what was being said!
Then Olga and the family were moved to Tobolsk where her friend Rita famously came to see her but Rita instead was arrested and sent home without seeing Olga! Then the family was moved to Yekaterinburg where the guards said later that it was obvious that Olga knew what was in store for them.
May she and the rest of the Imperial family rest in peace ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤xxx
#otma
#naotmaa
I always thought Olga was so beautiful. I loved when she smiled in her photos.
❤my favorite duchess
Lovely. Some of these pictures are new to me.
I'm glad you saw new photos here! ❤
Olga I miss you so much! 😢🌹
Beautiful great grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna beautiful princess 👑💔💔💔
sorry it would help me if you could slow down in speech a bit, as it is so interesting to hear about her life but the speed is a little too fast for me.
Once upon a december!
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The girls were all beautiful! What a crime that they, their brother and parents were murdered! Such a pity too that Nicholas was too proud to put aside autocratic rule and embrace constitutional monarchy as the English Royal Family had done, and then they all might have been spared...
Well becoming a constitutional monarch is what Louis XVI did and it didn’t work too well for him and Marie Antoinette. The thing is that once the tsar handed over power there was a risk that the process gets ever more radical and dangerous. England did indeed have a constitutional monarchy but to get there Charles I lost his head. A lot of people say that Nicholas and Alexandra were clueless rulers but I think they knew their history. On the other hand I see possibilities if World War One did not occur. The Russian economy and culture are quite strong in 1914 and technology promised improvements. Olga and Tatiana were becoming more known thanks to the tercentenary. I see Olga anyway as staying in Russia, perhaps a modernizing influence.
Olga'm ❤️🔥
What solid proof do we have of her nervous breakdown? I'm kind of on the fence for it, and more inclined to think of it as anemia compounded with teenage hormones and moodiness.
@roses-of-the-romanovs a share your point. Thank you 🌹
@@DuchessTatianapage Well, I do think that the "nervous breakdown" idea comes mainly from Anna Vyrubova's memoirs: "Olga within two months was almost too exhausted and too unnerved to continue". Of course there are those incidents mentioned, but as to the breaking-the-windows one, Anastasia and Maria also broke windows, so I don't think it was really because of Olga's instability. As to the second one, I am not saying you are wrong but I'd love the source! There's also Semyon Pavlov who talked of her nerves, though not in an extreme manner. (But I don't speak Russian, so I may be wrong.)
But Olga's ill health seems to have begun around October 1915, far more than the two months in that Vyrubova described. My view that it was anemia or at least something similar is from Valentina Cheborateva's note that Olga "developed severe anemia, they put her to bed for a week, but with permission to come to the infirmary for a half hour for the arsenic injections."
My guess is that Olga did have strain from the gruesomeness of hospital work but her main complaint was still anemia.
@@DuchessTatianapage I think that the "nervous breakdown" idea comes mainly from Anna Vyrubova's memories: "Olga within two months was almost too exhausted and too unnerved to continue". Of course there are those incidents mentioned, but as to the breaking-the-windows one, Anastasia and Maria also broke windows, so I don't think it was really because of Olga's instability. As to the second one, I am not saying you are wrong but I'd love the source! There's also Semyon Pavlov who talked of her nerves, though not in an extreme manner. (But I don't speak Russian, so I may be wrong.)
But Olga's ill health seems to have begun around October 1915, far more than the two months in that Vyrubova described. My view that it was anemia or at least something similar is from Valentina Cheborateva's note that Olga "developed severe anemia, they put her to bed for a week, but with permission to come to the infirmary for a half hour for the arsenic injections."
My guess is that Olga did have strain from the gruesomeness of hospital work but her main complaint was still anemia.
Anemia can be brought on by stress especially when the persons reaction to it is to stop eating (some people over eat). And then the anemia causes the anxiety to increase even more, like a vicious feedback loop.
Aside from the sight of mutilated bodies there was the fact that politically aware Olga was also starting to realize the growing unpopularity of her father’s rule. Add to that the impossible love for Mitya, you have the perfect cocktail. I’m sure the arsenic didn’t help.
@@condelevante4 Fair enough! I suppose it was both combined. But I still think it was more the physical than the mental.