ESCAPE to Canada | Sister of the Tsar

In 1960, in a small room above a shop in Toronto, the last Grand Duchess of Russia died far from the palaces of her birth. This is the story of Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Tsar Nicholas II — a life of steadfast love, endurance, faith, and revolution. Born in 1882 to Emperor Alexander III, Olga grew up at Peterhof and in the guarded rooms of Gatchina Palace, her father’s favorite child, already drawing the world she saw. The train wreck at Borki taught her, at six years old, how closely death walked beside the Imperial Family. An arranged marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg left her bound to protocol. Then, at a military review in 1903, she saw Nikolai Kulikovsky. They waited thirteen years. Only in 1916 did her brother, the last Tsar, give them leave to marry. Revolution drove her through the Crimea and the Caucasus. She never again heard from Nicholas, from Empress Alexandra, or from her four nieces. In Denmark she lived first under her mother’s roof at Hvidøre, then as a farmer’s wife in Ballerup, wearing rubber boots and a Romanov brooch to market. After the war, named in Pravda for sheltering Soviet prisoners, she fled once more — this time to Canada. She painted from her sickbed, and in 1959 told a Hamburg court that the woman claiming to be Anastasia was not her niece. For those who still seek the Romanovs as they actually were: not a legend, but a family that loved, waited, worked, and kept faith when an empire was gone. CHAPTERS 00:00 – Introduction: The Last Grand Duchess 00:43 – A Tsar’s Daughter & Life Under Protocol 02:52 – The Borki Train Crash & Constant Danger 04:08 – Childhood at Gatchina Palace & Passion for Painting 06:33 – Summer Freedom at Fredensborg Palace 08:09 – Death of Alexander III & Coronation of Nicholas II 10:45 – Arranged Marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg 13:30 – Imperial Family Life & Nieces 14:17 – Meeting Nikolai Kulikovsky & the 13-Year Wait 15:10 – World War I: Frontline Nurse & Marriage 18:44 – The 1917 Revolution & Escape to the Crimea 20:16 – Fall of the Romanovs & Fleeing Russia 21:44 – Exile in Denmark at Villa Hvidøre 24:00 – The Anastasia Claimant & the Dowager Empress’s Death 25:05 – A Simpler Life: Farming in Ballerup 28:05 – WWII Occupation & Soviet Threats 32:51 – Immigrating to Canada (1948) 34:14 – Life in Campbellville & Cooksville 36:44 – Loss of Nikolai Kulikovsky 38:12 – Meeting Queen Elizabeth II & Final Anastasia Testimony 40:26 – Final Days & Legacy of Grand Duchess Olga 🔔 Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@The.Romanovs.Project?sub_confirmation=1 #GrandDuchessOlga #OlgaAlexandrovna #Romanovs #NicholasII #TsarNicholasII #ImperialFamily #RussianHistory #RomanovFamily #AlexanderIII #MariaFeodorovna #DowagerEmpress #NikolaiKulikovsky #GatchinaPalace #Peterhof #Hvidore #Ballerup #RussianRevolution #RomanovExile #AnastasiaRomanov #TorontoHistory #LastGrandDuchess #ImperialRussia #HouseOfRomanov #OrthodoxHistory #RomanovSisters