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Jo Lee revisits The Romanoffs
The Renaissance of the Imperial Russian Dynasty
The Romanoff
Moscow-Ekaterinburg
Jo Lee revisits OLGA NIKOLAIEVNA KULIKOVSKY-ROMANOFF
*Her mother-in-law was Her Imperial Highness Grand
Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanoff, the daughter of
Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna, Emperor and
Empress of all the Russias, the youngest sister of Tsar
Nicholas II, niece to King George V of England - and
her husband, Captain Tihon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-
Romanoff, nephew of the Tsar and the eldest son of the
Grand Duchess and Colonel Nicholas Kulikovsky.
It is my distinct honor to sit in yet another historic
interview with one of the grandest ladies of the 20th
century. Olga Nikolaievna Kulikovsky-Romanoff.
JO LEE: Olga Nikolaievna, the Romanoff Dynasty is a
very delicate and powerful topic.
At the beginning of the 20th century, your family's predecessors
were murdered under Lenin's orders by the
Bolsheviks, marking the end of Imperial Russia. It
brought millions of victims and most tragically, among
the first were members of the Imperial Family. The new
political system set out to destroy everything from the
past, especially the Tsar's influence. The family, Tsar
Nicholas II, his wife and five children, were taken from
the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to the Ipatiev House
in Ekaterinburg, where they were brutally murdered - so
as never to have the essence of a shrine in their memory.
It was the night of July 16-17, 1918.
Olga Nikolaievna, you, today, have become one of the
world's outstanding humanitarians. Your life is a sphere
of unbelievable compassion for mankind. For over ten
years, you have been the President of Her Imperial
Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Memorial
Fund and in the past few years, you have been trying to
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