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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
Photo, c. 1914
Born15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1895
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died17 July 1918(1918-07-17) (aged 22)
Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Republic
Burial17 July 1998
Full name
Olga Nikolaevna Romanova
HouseHolstein-Gottorp-Romanov
FatherNicholas ll
MotherAlexandra Feodorovna
ReligionRussian Orthodox

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova; 15 November 1895 – 17 July 1918) was the eldest child of Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. After she was murdered in the Russian Revolution, she was canonized as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.

In the 1990s, her remains were identified through DNA testing and were buried in a funeral ceremony at Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg alongwith her parents and two of her sisters.


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