Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia

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Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna
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Born 22 July [O.S. 11 July] 1792
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died 26 January [O.S. 15] 1795 (aged 2)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Burial Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Full name
Olga Pavlovna Romanova
House Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp
Father Paul I of Russia
Mother Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg

Olga Pavlovna (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 Emperor Paul I of Russia and his empress consort, Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.

Birth and Christening

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:

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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

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

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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 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.

Ancestors

Family of Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Hedwig Sophia of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Peter III of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Peter I of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Anna Petrovna of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Catherine I of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Paul I of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Christine Eleonore von Zeustch
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Catherine II of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Frederick Charles of Württemberg-Winnental
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Princess Maria Ludovika of Lobkowicz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Sophie Dorothea of Württemburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Friedrich Wilhelm, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Frederick William I of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Sophie Dorothea Marie, Princess of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Karnovich, p. 308.
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