Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
Photo, c. 1914
Born	15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1895 Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	17 July 1918(1918-07-17) (aged 22) Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Republic
Burial	17 July 1998 Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Names Olga Nikolaevna Romanova
House	Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father	Nicholas II of Russia
Mother	Alix of Hesse and by Rhine
Religion	Russian Orthodox

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova; Russian: Великая Княжна Ольга Николаевна, romanized: Velikaya Knyazhna Ol'ga Nikolaevna, IPA: [vʲɪˈlʲikəjə knʲɪˈʐna ˈolʲɡə nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvnə] ^ⓘ; 15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1895 – 17 July 1918) was the eldest child of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, and of his wife Alexandra.

During her lifetime, Olga's future marriage was the subject of great speculation within Russia. Matches were rumored with Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Crown Prince Carol of Romania, Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain's George V, and with Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia. Olga herself wanted to marry a Russian and remain in her home country. During World War I, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital until her own nerves gave out and, thereafter, oversaw administrative duties at the hospital.

Olga's murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. In the 1990s, her remains were identified through DNA testing and were buried in a funeral ceremony at Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg along with those of her parents and two of her sisters.