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The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
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The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Paperback - 2001

by Ian Vorres


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When she died in exile in 1960, Olga Alexandrovna was the last Grand Duchess of Russia, the favorite sister of Czar Nicholas II who was executed with his wife and five children during the Revolution. Born in splendor difficult to imagine today, she endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment.

The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we meet Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was made - and other impostors who plagued the exiled duchess with false hope.

In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the loneliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia, her loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her years of exile in England and Denmark, and her final settlement with her second husband and family in Canada.

Long out of print, and now reissued in a handsomely illustrated edition, The Last Grand Duchess is the thorough and engaging official biography of an extraordinary woman.

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  • Title The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
  • Author Ian Vorres
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Rev Ed.
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Key Porter Books, Toronto
  • Date October 6, 2001
  • ISBN 9781552633021 / 1552633020
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.38 x 7.62 x 0.73 in (23.83 x 19.35 x 1.85 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 947

About the author

Ian Vorres is a Greek journalist, art critic, and museum curator. He came to North America after the Second World War in which he served in the underground and later the American Special Forces. He lived in Canada for eighteen years, and it was in these years that he met and befriended the Grand Duchess, agreeing to become her official biographer.

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