Olga Nikolaevna Quotes

Father asks to...Remember that the evil which is now in the world will become stronger yet and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but love.

You are filled with anguish For the suffering of others. And no one's grief Has ever passed you by. You are relentless Only to yourself, Forever cold and pitiless. But if only you could look upon Your own sadness from a distance, Just once with a loving soul— Oh, how you would pity yourself. How sadly you would weep. —Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917

Courage does not mean a lack of fear....It means meeting whatever the future may hold with grace. [Grandmamma (Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorovna), to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna]

In 1896, Princess Charles of Denmark took it upon himself to read the horoscope of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Tsar Nicholas II's infant daughter. Based on the relative positions of Jupiter and Neptune at the moment of Olga's birth, Prince Charles felt confident that the child would grow to be a woman of medium height, with a round face and chestnut hair. He predicted several "critical periods" in Olga's childhood, noting that if she reached the age of eight, she would enjoy "twelve years of peace." This period of happiness was to be cherished, Prince Charles concluded... "for it is certain that she will never live to be thirty.