Olga Pavlovna

July 11, 1792 (age 2)

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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 The little Grand Duchess was baptised on 29 July 1792 and, as it was customary, she received the Great Cross of the Order of Saint Catherine. The almost-three-year-old Grand Duchess died on 26 January 1795. A letter to Catherine the Great stated: The 13th Grand Duchess, Olga, died. And imagine why? Foreign 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. 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.

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The Grand Duchess Olga was born as her parents" fifth daughter and seventh child.

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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

The little Grand Duchess was baptised on 29 July 1792 and, as it was customary, she received the Great Cross of the Order of Saint Catherine. The almost-three-year-old Grand Duchess died on 26 January 1795.

A letter to Catherine the Great stated:

The 13th Grand Duchess, Olga, died.

And imagine why? Foreign 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. 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.

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