A handwritten letter from Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna to I.A. Vsevolozhsky in French

An original and rather rare letter written by Nicholas II's own sister Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna to Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolozhsky (1835-1909) – director of the Imperial Theaters. The envelope is embossed with gold. The text of the letter: "I think it's too late to ask you for a chair for Saturday at the Michel Theater. Do not take the same place for Sunday for work and do not bother to answer in writing. Olga." With the expert opinion of the Tretyakov Gallery. Guarantee of authenticity.

Olga Alexandrovna Romanova (June 1 [13], 1882, Peterhof, St. Petersburg Province - November 24, 1960, Toronto) was the Grand Duchess of the Russian Imperial House, the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexander III Alexandrovich and Empress Maria Feodorovna — after Nicholas, Alexander, George, Xenia and Mikhail. The ancestor of the Kulikovsky-Romanov dynasty. An artist. Olga Alexandrovna at the time of her death remained the last Grand Duchess of the House of Romanov. She was born in the Cottage Palace, in Peterhof. She grew up in the Gatchina Palace in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. Relations with his mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, were cold. In 1901, she married the Duke of Oldenburg. The marriage was unsuccessful and ended in divorce in 1915. Subsequently, Olga Alexandrovna married Nikolai Kulikovsky. After the February Revolution, she went to the Crimea with her mother and husband, where they lived in conditions close to house arrest. Her brothers Nikolai and his family and Mikhail were killed by the revolutionary authorities. In 1925, in Berlin, she met with the most famous fake Anastasia - Anna Anderson. One of the few members of the Imperial family who escaped after the October Revolution lived in Denmark, then Canada, survived all the other children of Emperor Alexander III. Like her father, she preferred a simple life. During her life, she painted more than 2,000 paintings, the proceeds from the sale of which allowed her to support her family and engage in charity. She died at the age of 78, seven months after the death of her older sister Ksenia Alexandrovna.