![]() Azar offers helpful annotations throughout, explaining nicknames and family relationships. ![]() (For example, when Rasputin was murdered in 1916, she wrote simply, "It's so terrible, should not even write.") Olga stopped her diary in 1917 before the arrest of her family, but the volume continues chronologically with "additional documents of the period," including letters from Olga to her family, excerpts from the diary of Nicholas II, and memoirs from other intimate friends of the Romanovs until one month before their execution in July 1918. Petersburg during the World War I and her social gatherings with friends and family, with brief mentions of her personal feelings. ![]() of Philadelphia) from the archival originals in Russia focus on Olga's nursing service in the hospital established at the Catherine Palace in St. The Romanovs were keen diarists: Olga was trained to keep note of her daily activities from a young age. ![]() In editor Azar's translation of diary entries by Grand Duchess Olga (1895–1918), the eldest of Nicholas and Alexandra's children emerges as a distinct individual. In 1913, the tricentennial year of her family’s dynastic rule, Olga. She was the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanov. Journal of a Russian Grand Duchess: Complete Annotated 1913 Diary of Olga Romanov, Eldest Daughter of the Last Tsar. ![]() It is easy to think of the daughters of the last tsar of Russia as a group-four girls, close in age, usually photographed in similar white dresses. Helen Azar has been interested in history of the. ![]()
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