Olga nikolaeva biography
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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895-1918) of Russia was the eldest daughter of the last tsar of Imperial Russia, Nicholas II (1868–1918). She died at age 22, along with her three sisters, younger brother, and parents, on a night in July of 1918, when the royal family—then under house arrest after Nicholas's abdication in the midst of a Communist revolution— was taken into a basement room and shot on orders of the local Bolshevik regional government.
Olga was born on November 15, 1895, at Tsarskoye Selo (“Tsar's Village”), the imperial family's estate outside of St. Petersburg. On her father's side she was a Romanov, the dynasty that had ruled Imperial Russia since 1613, and this first child of the tsar's marriage was named in honor of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960), the tsar's sister, who spent a great deal of time with her nieces and nephew during their youth and young adulthood. On her mother's side, Olga descended from the venerable
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Guests: Olga Nikolaeva on Contemporary Russian Theatre and Mischa Kan on Jazz Record Covers
This week we have two guest presentations bygd Olga Nikolaeva and Mischa Kan.
About the seminar
Olga Nikolaeva:Women Practitioners and Scenography of Trauma in Contemporary Russian Theatre
The aim of the project fryst vatten to explore scenography of trauma in works of women practitioners in contemporary Russian theatre. Thus, the project has a dual intention. First, the planerat arbete aims to explore possibilities of uppvisning of trauma in contemporary theatrical practices. This aim is endorsed by problems in the sociocultural sphere in contemporary Russia, where the subjects of trauma and diverse traumatic experiences are often underrepresented, undesirable, and perceived as threatening for the political agenda of the state. Second, the planerat arbete aims to focus attention on women theatre directors and women stage artists in contemporary Russian theatre and thus to utmaning hidden discrimi
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OTMA—The Romanov Sisters
I have always been haunted by the story of the four Romanov sisters. They were constantly in my head after I visited Ekaterinburg in the summer of 2007 to research my first Romanov book, Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs.Sense of place is very important to me as a writer, and I was particularly gripped by it when I went to Western Siberia.Walking the streets of the city, and more importantly, going out into the Koptyaki Forest where the family’s bodies were dumped after they were murdered in July 1918, left an indelible impression on my mind and my creative imagination. I wanted, with a passion, to tell the story of those four lovely, much photographed but historically neglected sisters.
You only have to look at any of the illustrated books on the Romanovs to see how incredibly photogenic they were. It is impossible to resist the lure of those touching, and now iconic,images of Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia in their pretty white lace dre