Olga's Failed Match and her True Love

In May 1915, a wounded Georgian officer was admitted to the hospital. He was a sweet and bashful character, and Olga and he were soon smitten with each other. Nevertheless, her position meant that there was no hope this passionate affair could ever be consummated.
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[@johnanderson1205]

I always feel most sorry for Olga because she was the most realistic person out of the whole family about the situation that they were in once they were transferred to Ekaterinburg It's nice to know she had someone she loved and had happy memories of when she was at her lowest point in her life

[@michaelflick1177]

There would have been no Ekaterinburg if Nicholas had sent his wife and children as advised to the Crimea in January 1917. He stupidly refused and sealed their fate.

[@spiritmatter1553]

Even if she’d married Prince Carol, she would have been in safety…though probably the survivor’s guilt and the grief would have made her miserable.

[@michaelflick1177]

Much better alive than dead. Her mother's family moved on after the initial grieving.

[@lianicandrou4916]

So very sad...a beautiful human being Olga, not having even the chance to be loved and to feel any joy and happiness in her life! And it really saddens me that her life and her families were just taken from cruel brutals !!

[@debilacy6768]

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[@debilacy6768]

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[@beelight2703]

Lia, I apologize - I just saw that I had originally accidently pressed a thumbs down and that was carelessly in error. I just changed to a thumbs up and do agree with your response.

[@Patendyck76]

It's so true in many cases that only the good die young & Olga was certainly a goodly soul as was her family. God bless & RIP.

[@conningdale8805]

A sad video. Nicholas and Alexandra had married for love, and wanted their girls to marry for the same reason. They didn't want them to go through arranged marriages. In 1916 Nicholas had given permission for his sister Olga to marry a commoner. Who knows what would have happened had the Revolution not taken place, Thank you for posting this video. Although its so sad, its the story of a beautiful young woman.

[@blancablanca7931]

Quite the opposite. Nicholas II was more strict than Alexandra when it came to royal marriages. A few men that OTMA have fell for, Nicholas would routinely remove them from their post and transfer them to another regiment. Political alliances are everything for many royals at the time, something young royals typically don’t pay attention. That is why their parents would decide for them. Nicholas and Alexandra are also cousins, it just happened that they fell inlove. But the idea of his marriage to a close cousin was well within the fabric of arranged royal marriage traditions- something Nicholas highly supported.

[@factfiend1000]

@@blancablanca7931 Even though Alexander III disapproved of it at first due to Alexandra being a German.

[@Mashka14]

Fascinating In Depth Video on Olga and a failed attempt to have a marriage match in the Family went to Romania 🇷🇴 Olga was a beautiful sensitive down to earth compassionate warm gentle sweet Soul

[@clementlee2121]

The what ifs of history. Had she married the prince of Romania she would have survived the family execution in 1918. However knowing your entire family except you perished isn’t always the happiest of time. And the Prince who later turned out to be a playboy himself most likely isn’t going to provide a happy marriage for Olga.

[@janewier4409]

Please keep putting more videos on this channel on the imperial family

[@buffettfan]

What a beautiful soul. It's probably inappropriate for me as an Orthodox Christian to have such deep feelings for someone who is a saint but I can't help her. She amazes and inspires me and I see God in her. I wish I could find someone like her in this world but that is an unlikely prospect in this day and age.

[@arianemontemuro7901]

Olga is amazing !!!

[@buffettfan]

@Ariane Montemuro Hello again, Ariane! Yes, she is!! As a fellow empath I share many of her emotional struggles and find her an inspiration.

[@user-ob4sq6fi3s]

Me too. I don't like talking about myself, but I see myself in Olga: gentle, kind, empathetic, honest, austere, down to earth. I wish everyone will be fortunate enough to have a friend or a partner like Olga

[@andreasalas1546]

I would love to see an historical series about the sisters, with flashbacks of their childhood

[@DOUMASWIFE69]

To be honest.... Olga's true love is more handsome than the prince she is engaged to.

[@RomanovRoyalMartyrs]

They weren't engaged. The match failed :)

[@cc2016]

THE PRINCE LOOKED BETTER

[@davidlogan4329]

Sadly Olga and her siblings were doomed when in January 1917 Nicholas refused to send them with their mother to the Crimea. There they would have been safe and would have been able to escape the revolution with their grandmother, Maria Feodorovna in April 1919. Unfortunately Nicholas trapped them all at Tsarskoe Selo. Kerensky sent them to Tobolsk to get them away from revoltionary St. Petersburg. They were comfortable in the Governor's Mansion for a time. Once moved to Ekaterinburg and the Ipatiev House their time was limited. The Bolsheviks had no need for them and they were executed. Olga and her sisters would have been happy to lead quiet lives. Unfortunately their father never thought of reality and sealed their fate.

[@blessOTMA]

An alliance with Karl was never meant to be. They had deeply opposite ideas about romance. Olga longed to marry, move to a village and give up official life. One could hardly do that as Queen of Romania. Add to this, she preferred darker men and on his side , he wished for far more sophisticated partners than Olga with her wishes for a settled married life in a rural setting! And even if they had decided on marriage, there simply was no time before the war. It would have been put off .Olga did take great heart when her Aunt Olga was allowed to marry a commoner in 1916 and likely saw the end of her own suffering in that point. She saw promise in the post royal "new life" as she called it. But sadly was never to benefit from the relaxed etiquette . It is so sad. For her heart was formed for love.

[@anthonytroisi6682]

The Czar and his wife wanted their daughters to marry for love. Olga and Prince Carol of Romania did not even like each other. As a result, the marriage plans were scrapped. Although it was a tradition for royals to marry royals before World War I, the rules were relaxed after 1918. King George V, for example, allowed his second son to marry Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who, although the daughter of an Earl, was considered a commoner. If the Romanovs had survived the war, it is possible that the rules would been relaxed enough to allow the Grand Duchesses to marry for love.

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

​@@anthonytroisi6682 I read somewhere that there was talk about the four girls being allowed morganatic marriages after the war; for they wouldn't have had many other options anymore, anyway. That's why the rules for the British royals changed, too- being allowed to marry their subjects rather than foreign royals. 🤷

[@anthonytroisi6682]

@@thekingsdaughter4233 With so many German royals displaced after the war, there were no longer any tiny principalities to provide husbands for any of the princesses. Lord Mountbatten was smitten with one of the Romanov daughters and Queen Mary thought one of them would make a good wife for the future Edward VIII. Supposedly one of the daughters was in love with a Russian officer before the family's imprisonment.

[@maria369]

If she had married him and moved she would have survived and she would have been able to save the rest of her family.

[@alvaro9667]

If only!

[@evabartosova2656]

Olga died 1998. Her husband died 2014. He was highest Monarch of monarchs. Photos are on internet from their other wedding i e videos.

[@maria369]

@@evabartosova2656 Süre, whatever you say!!!

[@nadyayap2714]

She might have survived but I doubt she would have been happy. Carol's later wife, Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark had to put up with his very public and humiliating affairs. She was left to raise her son on her own, especially after they divorced, and Carol was forced to surrender his right to the throne to his son (which he later usurped anyway), because of his scandals. Besides, who wants to outlive one's entire family?

[@arianemontemuro7901]

Olga did not survive.

[@xxLornyTunesxx]

As bad as this may sound I don't think Olga would have coped if she'd married the match and known her whole family had been slaughtered. The revolutionists should have at least spared the children, they didn't mess up.

[@JoMarieM]

Sadly, they had all the young Romanovs killed for one main reason: they wanted to ensure that there would be no heirs to rise up and reclaim the Russian throne. It was power and greed at its worst!

[@akaginny7516]

I sometimes see how Olga and Maria favored each other. I think they looked more alike than the other siblings. I wish their story had ended differently somehow.

[@michaelflick1177]

It could have, but Nicholas refused to send his wife and children to the Crimea as advised in January 1917. His refusal caused the circumstances where they were all trapped and subsequently murdered.

[@beelight2703]

Bravo to Olga for not considering a possible royal match in a man with quite a reputation of being a ‘lady’s man’ and bravo to her parents for honoring what she didn’t want. From what I’ve read the Tsar and Tsarina raised their daughters to be very good, devout and loving - so I think IF being a ‘lady’s man’ infers that the Romanian heir was not going to be able to be faithful in marriage it does make me wonder why he would be considered a possible match in the first place. While she would have likely lived had she married him and possibly been able to save her family - I think of this lovely Grand Duchess and think of how it would have been so painful for her to be in a dynasty marriage without devotion and faithfulness - she was an exceptional young woman who deserved to adore and be adored♥️

[@wl2977]

It was the Romanian royal family who tried to get a Russian daughter -in-law. The Romanov family was reluctant ever since the beginning. But they have to be polite as they are all cousins to each other after all. By the way, the Romanian crown prince turned out to be a hopeless lady's man. He eventually married a Greek princess, Prince Philip 's cousin, and the marriage was not happy, surprise surprise!

[@beelight2703]

@@wl2977 thank you for explaining this further!

[@carmendobrescu7472]

They wanted that because Queen Mary of Romania was the daughter of Great Duchess Maria which was the aunt of Great Tsar Nicholas. She was an amazing monarch. That son of a bi** Carol II banished his own mother and sister not long after he became king a second time...

[@michaelflick1177]

Life is always much better than death.

[@ambc8970]

You forget to mention that the Romanian royals knew about the tsarevitsh. He was a heamophiliac. The gene is transmitted by the mother.

[@user-qz6sk2cx4v]

A very sad story for this royal family ... very beautiful girls

[@29Marathons]

It's a great clip of the Tsar's oldest daughter, Olga. It's too bad that Olga, as a GD, could only marry the men who are in royalty like her, not lower rank than that. It seems like that Olga crushes were actually military officers, not royal men. So, I don't think it's surprising that the relationship between Olga & Prince Carol of Romania didn't work out, including the Romanov Family's visit in Romania (I know Olga's one of reasons is that she doesn't want to leave Russia, but I believe there were other reasons too that I don't know about). Also, it's sad that Olga's crush (during WWI), her darling Mitya, the wounded Georgian officer, will actually never work out between them as long as Olga is a GD.

[@lewissparrow7417]

Olga was a beautiful and clever young lady who cared and worried about people; she once met a poor young girl who had problems with her legs and Olga being Olga paid for the girl's medical treatment using her own vast fortune without being prompted to do so. All four sisters grew up surrounded by young male officers and they were encouraged to flirt with them and spend time with them so it's not really surprising that the sisters got attached to one or two of them. Tatiana fell for Dmitry Malama who the Empress thought alot of and said it was a shame princes weren't like him. Olga read the newspapers regularly and saw the way things were going so it was no wonder she got depressed. After Nicholas abdicated and came back to the Palace he spent hours shut away in his study talking about everything that had happened with Olga. Another lesser known fact is that Nicholas actually gave Olga a small handgun in the months before his abdication but while they were prisoners the commandant got wind of it and asked her in private to surrender the weapon and she did.

[@enjoyingmyvodka1013]

They were a beautiful family!!! RIP

[@spiritmatter1553]

Such a beautiful, loving, and sadly doomed family.

[@enjoyingmyvodka1013]

@@spiritmatter1553 agreed

[@michaelflick1177]

They were a highly dysfunctional family. Perhaps beautiful on the outside, but totally removed from the reality of Russia. Alexandra was diagnosed mentally ill in 1910. Alexis was suffering from an incurable disease. Nicholas and his lack of basic common sense brought down a once great dynasty. He never listened to anyone, even as late as January 1917 when he was advised to send his wife and children to the Crimea for their safety. His refusal trapped them once revolution broke out.

[@TheNinjaInConverse]

I'm loving all this Olga content!

[@stephensczurek6286]

It's curious. One would think that an officer who was wounded in defense of his country would have been considered worthy of a princess' hand. The man, I'd think, could have been made a consort or some kind of title. But history and fate declared otherwise. Rest in peace, Olga. I pray that you have in Heaven the peace and love you were denied on Earth.

[@carltongirl95]

Back in those day's a match with a soldier wouldn't have happened...Olga being first born in the end would have married for love yes as her parent's had done but they would have hoped for a better match for her...I believe one of the murderer's of Rasputin (Dimitri I think) who was extremely close to both of her parent's was considered briefly...

[@sophieso6850]

Cette famille est réunie au Paradis, c est certain!!

[@michaelflick1177]

There was to be no future for Olga and her siblings once their stupid father refused to send them along with their mother to the Crimea in January 1917 as advised. He sealed their fate.

[@chelseabaker1994]

So it was Olga (not Anastasia) who fell in love with a man named Dimitri. Too bad this couldn’t have the fairy tale happy ending, where the handsome swashbuckling hero comes to rescue the fair princess from her imprisonment and carry her off into the sunset and live happily ever after.

[@fearlessvic7948]

So sad.

[@kristianracer9721]

What a pity that she didn't married Mitya. But if he was killed in the war, he and Olga are now happy that they're together forever in heaven.

[@michaelflick1177]

That is pure fantasy.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

@@michaelflick1177What is a fantasy to you?

[@ladymeghenderson9337]

Tragic really, it might have saved her life.

[@Richardsonprincess00]

She thought she find true love, but she was wrong...if she could, she might be survived this nightmare.

[@natalieg6727]

I love this channel … we will never forget them🎈

[@user-jq8kb5oh8m]

They sunbathed. They wanted to look rather unattractive!!! In reality they wanted to stay in Russia. They did !!! Forever . In history and in memory !! God bless their soul 🙏

[@bradpsstone4618]

SO SAD, to see such refined beauty, THE FLOWER, OF WOMANHOOD, RUSSIAN BEAUTY AND NOBILITY, taken and BRUTALLY MURDERED. May ETERNAL PEACE, be hers and theirs, their memory, NEVER FORGOTTEN, 🥺😫😭

[@user-ow3fo5rw1g]

Thank you very much for your wonderful work, for our dear Princess, for her memory from Russia!

[@alexolson9317]

Thanks for this!!

[@lovetolovefairytales]

First time the girls had seen real human suffering? Um.... Yeah, I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say technically no it wasn't. I'm pretty sure watching their baby brother contort with pain from his hemophilia was also real human suffering... Some of his injuries would have been pretty traumatic. Like what about the time he almost died in Poland?

[@crazylizard1889]

Have we no access to records to see when Mitya died?

[@spiritmatter1553]

Russia during the revolution was chaotic. It’s a big country, they don’t speak English, it was 100 years before the internet. Records weren’t digitized. While it may be possible for a Russian speaker to research Mitya, I doubt much information could be gleaned.

[@condelevante4]

Olga is so beautiful and elegant. The match with Romania would have been a big political coup for Nicholas, especially if it brought Romania on the side of the entente in 1914 and may even have averted war. Instead they joined in 1916 when it was, as Olga noted in her diary - too late. She was incandescent with them. Olga was the most politically aware. She would have made a good ruler if she had wanted to.

[@cameronthomas952]

I feel bad for olga she deserves to love whoever she chooses to be with instead because she was a grand duchess she had arranged engagements which she turned down but in the end I can't help but to wonder if she did marry one of the prince what would her life be like

[@katherinekoenemann4351]

Thank you for this video.

[@josetorres-gi8rg]

Beautiful Olga.

[@JoMarieM]

What happened to the Romanov girls -- and their brother -- was sad on so many levels. Especially for Olga. Had the Romanian prince been a man that she had "clicked" with, marrying him could have possibly saved her life, as she probably would not have been in Russia when her family members were killed. It's also sad, too, that with the soldier she had fallen in love with, there was no chance that they could have ever been together as husband and wife, I just wonder what kind of life they might have had together, had Olga not been a princess and was able to marry him. And as far as I know, there was no record of Mitya's fate. I'm sure that, if he had survived the war, he probably would have been devastated to hear about the murder of the Romanov family. It's just very sad that none of those beautiful Romanov girls ever got to experience the joys of being someone's wife!

[@michaelflick1177]

What was sad was that their stupid father refused to send them as advised to the Crimea in January 1917. He sealed their fate.

[@Kimberly-cx9uv]

I will enjoy this video x

[@melanieobremki4876]

You can FEEL her tragedy..

[@Bo-lp1no]

that reminds me Tatiana and Dimitri Malama 🥺

[@savagedarksider5934]

I'm gonna to enjoy this video.

[@carltongirl95]

Such a sad story she seemed so lovely as did her other sister's though each of the girl's were very different from each other...I do have a question in the first part of the video where the family photo was being done there is a young girl with a side ponytail and a short dress...I've always found this really odd because she looks like a child from the 1960's with her hair like that and her short dress on...thankyou for sharing though the short story on Grand Duchess Olga and her love interest 💜

[@JoMarieM]

I believe that that the little girl was one of the Romanian princesses, a relative of the guy that Olga was being persuaded to marry. I can't remember what her name was, but I believe that, unlike the poor Romanov girls, she survived the war, grew up and had a family of her own.

[@rrevu6733]

She's princess illeana of Romania to whom which alexi had a love attraction later on shd became a nun

[@lewissparrow7417]

Illeana was one of the most popular members of the Romanian Royal family and Carol was jealous of how popular she was and got her married to an Austrian Duke and then said she had to leave the country because she had married this Austrian Duke. Carol was horrible and Olga obviously had better taste in men. The Tsarevich Alexei promised to marry Illeana but alas it never happened

[@jaimediuk9639]

This is so sad and even more so the fact that King George could of got them out of there.. they was pure and innocent faithful children.. and queen Victoria great grandchildren.. something should of been done surely.. God bless them and may they rest in peace.. Heartbreaking..

[@cynthiaejiogu8442]

Hi from Sacramento!

[@firefly5934]

Quite ironic the movie Anastasia gave Olga’s little sister a lover who not only was named Dimitri but was also almost stopped from marrying Anastasia because of the same reason Olga and Dimitri couldn't be together.

[@marilynmendez7521]

Is really sad what happens with the all family members is very sad way they kill this people 😢 😞

[@Lucy0809]

Good for her! ❤

[@reneeoliver9024]

These children were innocent. why couldn’t they be left alone and sent into exile under the condition that if they did there would be consequences

[@JoMarieM]

They were killed because the extremist revolutionaries wanted to ensure that there would be no heirs to rise up and reclaim the Russian throne at some point in the future. It was power and greed at its worst!

[@ronaldmessina4229]

I could not agree more….all of the Romanov children were more than beautiful, and faithful Christians…do hope that the assassins rot with the devil in hell 😊

[@demiscachia3644]

So sad :(

[@MarioSanchez79]

Beauty Olga

[@cherylzaccheo7762]

Love you dear Great Cousine

[@meeeka]

Carol was a horrible person and so, she was smart to have rejected him. He was a disaster!

[@arianemontemuro7901]

Prince Karol was a total jerk!!!

[@arianemontemuro7901]

Prince Carol was not at all her(Olga's) level at all! He was below her. He would have cheated on her.

[@Sabrinajaine]

I'm confused, this is the same narration as the Russia's Lost Princesses documentary, but with a different voice??

[@tjittekamminga5170]

requiescant in pace

[@MusicandDancing4Ever]

In hindsight Olga should’ve married someone, at least one of the daughters could’ve possibly survived the tragedy.

[@sobeidalagrange7129]

😭😭😭

[@andreeacodin1553]

Buna aveți un videoclip nou cu Sf Elisabeta feodorovna. Și are subtitrare in limba engleza. I puneți și versiune în limba Româna

[@RomanovRoyalMartyrs]

sorry, we currently don't have someone to do that. Maybe in the future.

[@andreeacodin1553]

@@RomanovRoyalMartyrs ok incercati versiune google dar am o rugăminte daca nu e prea mult daca mai publicati ceva cu Sf Elisabeta i puteți pune subtritrare in limba Româna mulțumesc mult

[@patriciaoconnor402]

If she had married the Romanian prince, she would have lived and had children.

[@annehersey9895]

If I remember correctly, I think Mitya was a Georgian or possibly from one of the other republics of Russia.

[@gillesguerbet4372]

Y see you and listen joselito ave Maria

[@robertabard7575]

Sje was right!

[@ricardo53100]

The trip to Romania was in 1913 and not 1914.

[@RomanovRoyalMartyrs]

Sorry, but no. It was 1914.

[@RomanovRoyalMartyrs]

Sorry, but no. It was 1914.

[@cc2016]

SHE WOULD HAVE SURVIVED IF SHJE MARRIED HIM ATLEAST

[@joeg2964]

The violent history of Russia continues.

[@loveheals1020]

Opal

[@CALAMITYGURULASTDAYS]

This video brought me to tears. Our Lord will avenge and is now avenging the blood of all the saints and martyrs of Jesus Christ. The 5th seal has been opened. God Almighty bless President Putin and our Royal Orthodox Church worldwide. Please Lord bring those Schismatics in Ukraine who have Apostatized to repentance and back to your flock Amen.

[@blancablanca7931]

Prince Carol was a notorious womanizer, a real party boy royal. Harry’s predecesor. Haha. That personality won’t bode well with Olga, let alone with her mother Alexandra! Haha what a horror match-up

[@judithmitchell4667]

Pronounced. "Row - man - off"

[@Lady_Angela1]

She shouldve married the Romanian prince

[@user-yo8bt4el7h]

I saw a few comments about Olga that struck me as odd. If I had to take pity on any of the Romanov sisters, it would be Maria, not Olga. Maria was often teased by her sisters for not being "stick thin". And, prior to the entire family having been slaughtered, she was given the "silent treatment" for being too friendly with the guards. Not only that, but it was she who was incinerated, along with her baby brother! Their remains, consisting of about 44 bone fragments, were not found until nearly 30 years AFTER the initial discovery of the mass grave of her loved ones. Note: the human skeleton consists of 200+ bones. Maria was funny, warm and kind, with a huge heart. She was the most well-behaved of the imperial daughters, so much that the czar saw her as "perfect". She adored children and was all about love. Now, I am not claiming that the rest of OTMA did not possess these qualities, but when one studies Russian History, a clearer picture is formed, minus the misinformation. Olga was actually the most defiant and the most difficult daughter to handle. She was very temperamental and the one who would talk back to the tsar and tsarina. There are film reels of Olga in the public eye, literally exhibiting behavior that can only be described as "bitchy". I'll be the first to defend ALL members of the Romanov family, but I believe that ACCURACY is essential when telling their story.

[@Mashka14]

Fascinating In Depth Video on Olga and a failed attempt to have a marriage match in the Family went to Romania 🇷🇴 Olga was a beautiful sensitive down to earth compassionate warm gentle sweet Soul