In November 1918, with Gorkys assistance, the Petrograd Soviet gave the couple permission to leave Russia for Finland. 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. [62], Olga and her husband refused to leave Russia and decided to move to the Caucasus, which the White Army had cleared of revolutionary Bolsheviks. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia | Detailed Pedia [79] Olga later said she sent the gift and letters "out of pity",[80] and called the claims "a complete fabrication". [3], Kulikovsky was appointed as captain in the Blue Cuirassiers and posted to the provinces. [55], In 1916, Tsar Nicholas II annulled the marriage between Duke Peter Alexandrovich and the Grand Duchess, allowing her to marry Colonel Kulikovsky. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia | Unofficial Royalty [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. It is permissible to use a link that directs to Unofficial Royalty. At the downfall of the Romanovs in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled with her husband and children to Crimea, where they lived under the threat of assassination. [124] The Russian Relief Programme, which was founded by Tikhon and his third wife Olga in honour of the Grand Duchess,[125] exhibited a selection of her work at the residence of the Russian ambassador in Washington in 2001, in Moscow in 2002, in Ekaterinburg in 2004, in Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 2005, in Tyumen and Surgut in 2006, at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and Saint Michael's Castle in Saint Petersburg in 2007,[126] and at the Vladimir Arsenyev Museum in Vladivostok in 2013. At the end of 1918, Gavril was moved to a hospital, and then Gavril and his wife lived for a while at Gorkys apartment. Perry, John Curtis and Pleshakov, Konstantin, 2008. [44] She decided to move her family across the Atlantic to the relative safety of rural Canada,[45] a decision with which Kulikovsky complied. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. Guri Nikolaevich - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage Guri had one brother: Tikon Nikolaevich. Having never reconciled with the idea of her daughter's marriage to a commoner, she was cold towards Kulikovsky, rarely allowing him in her presence. once my father showed me a very old album full of most exciting pen and ink sketches of an imaginary city called Mopsopolis, inhabited by Mopses [pug dogs]. When other Romanovs were leaving Russia, including her son Kirill and his family, Maria Pavlovna spent 1917 1918 with her son Boris, her son Andrei, and his mistress Mathilde Feliksovna Kschessinskaya along with her Mathildes son Vladimir in the war-torn Caucasus. [116], She was interred next to her husband in York Cemetery, Toronto, on 30 November 1960, after a funeral service at Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Toronto. At the time of the abdication of Nicholas II, these Romanov morganatic wives and children from morganatic marriages were living in other countries: Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova, Princess Yurievskaya, Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova, Princess Yurievskaya* (1847 1922), morganatic second wife and widow of Alexander II, Emperor of All Russia, was living in France.