Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is  Pavlovna.

Grand Duchess of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna

Born| 22 July [O.S. 11 July] 1792
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died| 26 January [O.S. 15] 1795 (aged 2)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Burial|

Annunciation Church, Alexander Nevsky Monastery

House| Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father| Paul Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia
Mother| Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg

Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (Russian: Ольга Павловна; 22 July [O.S. 11 July] 1792 - 26 January [O.S. 15 January] 1795) was a Grand Duchess of Russia as the second youngest daughter and seventh child of the Tsarevich of Russia (later Emperor Paul I) and his consort, Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.

## Birth and christening[edit]

The Grand Duchess Olga was born as her parents' fifth daughter and seventh child. Her birth was not greeted with much happiness by her paternal grandmother, Catherine the Great, who stated that "A lot of girls, all married will not tell anyone". She later wrote:

> The Grand Duchess has treated us (nous a regalé) with a fifth daughter, whose shoulders are nearly as wide as mine. Since the Grand Duchess was in labour for two days and finally gave birth on July 11, the feast day of Saint Olga of Kiev, who was baptized in Constantinople in the year 956, I said, "Well, we will have two holidays instead of one" and so she was baptised Olga[1]

The little Grand Duchess was baptised on 29 July [O.S. 18 July] 1792 and, as it was customary, she received the Great Cross of the Order of Saint Catherine.[2]

## Death[edit]

The almost-three-year-old Grand Duchess died on 26 January [O.S. 15] 1795\. A letter to Catherine the Great stated:

> The 13th Grand Duchess, Olga, died. And imagine why? For eighteen weeks, she revealed a hunger and she constantly asked to eat, because she grew too great for her two and a half years, at that time many molars came at once, and after sixteen weeks of suffering and a slow debilitating fever occurred daily, she died between seven and eight o'clock in the evening ...[1]

The family of Tsar Paul I, by Gerhard von Kügelgen, 1800.

The same year, Gavrila Derzhavin dedicated a poem to her death, entitled "On the death of Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna", just as he had dedicated a poem to her when she was born. Out of the ten children born to Paul and Sophia, Olga was the only one that died during her childhood years. The funeral was held at the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Olga's burial place. The Empress herself was at the funeral, dressed in a white dress, with gray hair disheveled, pale and silent. In 1800, when Olga would have been eight, Gerhard von Kügelgen painted a portrait of Paul I's family. Behind the family, a bust of Olga stood high in front of a forest.

## Ancestry[edit]

Ancestors of Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia

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| 4\. Peter III of Russia|

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| 9\. Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia

| 2\. Paul I of Russia|

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| 10\. Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

| 5\. Catherine II of Russia|

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| 11\. Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp

| 1\. Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia|
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| 12\. Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg

| 6\. Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg|

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| 13\. Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis

| 3\. Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg|

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| 14\. Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt

| 7\. Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt|

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| 15\. Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia

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## References[edit]

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1. ^ a b Karnovich, p. 308.
2. ^ "List of Knights of the Order of St. Catherine" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-24.

## Bibliography[edit]

* Eugene P. Karnovich (1990). Hungarian Palatine Alexandra Pavlovna: The wonderful and mysterious personality 17th and 19th centuries (in Russian). Smart.
* Albina Danilova (2004). Five princesses: A daughter of Paul I (in Russian).

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Grand Duchesses of Russia

1st generation|

* Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
* Empress Elizabeth
* Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna
* Empress Anna

2nd generation|

* Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeevna

4th generation|

* Archduchess Alexandra Pavlovna, Palatina of Hungary
* Elena Pavlovna, Hereditary Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
* Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
* Catherine Pavlovna, Queen of Württemberg
* Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna
* Anna Pavlovna, Queen of the Netherlands

5th generation|

* Maria Nikolaevna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg
* Olga Nikolaevna, Queen of Württemberg
* Alexandra Nikolaevna, Princess Frederick William of Hesse-Cassel
* Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna
* Elizabeth Mikhailovna, Duchess of Nassau
* Catherine Mikhailovna, Duchess George Augustus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

6th generation|

* Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna
* Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
* Olga Konstantinovna, Queen of the Hellenes
* Vera Konstantinovna, Duchess Eugen of Württemberg
* Anastasia Mikhailovna, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

7th generation|

* Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
* Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, Mrs. Nikolai Kulikovsky
* Elena Vladimirovna, Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark
* Maria Pavlovna, Princess Sergei Mikhailovich Putiatin

8th generation|

* Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
* Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna
* Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna
* Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna
* Maria Kirillovna, Princess of Leiningen*
* Kira Kirillovna, Princess of Prussia*

9th generation|

* Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna**

* * title granted by Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich
* ** title granted by Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich

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