Russian Girl. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova

«The sacred mystery of a young girl's soul» (phrase of Her Imperial Majesty Alexandra Feodorovna from a letter to her husband, Emperor Nicholas II. — ed.) remained with her forever. Her diaries have hardly survived — she burned almost all... of them during one of the searches in the terrible imprisonment in Yekaterinburg. The last of them, written shortly before her death, seems exceedingly terse, encoded, faceless. But it contains so much pain and a desire to live, such a thirst for finding the forever lost golden thread of a calm, harmonious family world, in which she grew up and which she lost in February 1917.
What was she like, the eldest Tsarevna, beloved daughter of Emperor Nicholas II, Sister of Mercy of the Tsarskoye Selo Hospital, a Russian princess from a bright fairy tale with a sad tragic ending? Let us try, if only in part, to answer this in this book.
Author, P.V. Savchenko, first-wave emigrant. The text was originally intended for the compilation of the Life of Saint Princess Olga and was published in Jordanville (USA), at the printing house of the Holy Trinity Monastery in 1986.