alice-and-ethel:Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova❁ “I really think people are much better
alice-and-ethel:Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova❁ “I really think people are much better now than they used to be. I’m very glad I live now when people are so kind.” ◦ “Dreams of happiness: Get married, always live in the countryside winter and summer, see only good people, no one official.” ◦ “Give my love to all who remember me.” • Olga (various sources)❁ “I was very fond of all my brother’s children but perhaps most of the eldest, Olga. The two of us were soul mates. She resembled me in character, and that was perhaps why we understood each other so well.” • Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna❁ “She was the cleverest of the sisters, and was very musical… She could play by ear anything she had heard…play the most difficult accompaniments at sight, and her touch on the piano was delightful. She sang prettily in a mezzosoprano. Olga Nicolaevna was very straightforward, sometimes too outspoken, but always sincere. She had great charm… She was generous, and an appeal to her met with immediate response.” • Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden❁ “She was a most amiable girl, and people loved her from the moment they set eyes on her. She took life seriously, and she was a clever girl with a sweet disposition. I think she possessed unusual strength of character.” • Lili Dehn ❁ “Olga was perhaps the cleverest of them all, her mind being so quick to grasp ideas, so absorbent of knowledge that she learned almost without application or close study. Her chief characteristics…were a strong will and a singularly straightforward habit of thought and action. [H]ad she been allowed to live her natural life she would, I believe, have become a woman of influence and distinction.” • Anna Vyrubova -- source link
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