Princess Olga

Princess Olga
Author: Olga Romanoff
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Nobility
ISBN: 9780856835179

"Princess Olga Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. She is the youngest child of the late Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, who was born in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1897. He fled Russia in 1918 with his pregnant (first) wife and his father, Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich, while his mother, Grand Duchess Xenia, and his grandmother, Her Imperial Highness Maria Feodorovna, followed a year later. The fabled Romanov jewels that they were able to smuggle out had to be sold and the exiled family lived for some time at various grace-and-favour homes at Windsor and Hampton Court. The book is peppered with amusing anecdotes about the Royal Family and their British cousins. The reader will also get a glimpse of the Princess's cosseted childhood. She was looked after by a number of nannies and then privately educated at home for fear of mixing with ordinary local children. My mother was a frightful snob, says Princess Olga, who rebelled, and who still laughs about one of her mother's ambitions: to marry her off to Prince Charles! It was indeed an unusual upbringing with a snobbish and strict mother of Scottish and Scandinavian background, and a more relaxed and indulgent Romanov father whose occupation was stated as 'Prince of Russia' on Olga's birth certificate. Her home, Provender House is crammed full of fascinating Romanov memorabilia, from the crockery used by the tsar and his family during their final captivity in Ekaterinburg, to the diamond blade penknife used for scratching the news of Prince Andrei's birth on a window pane in the Winter Palace - still there for visitors to see. The rambling 30-room Provender House, now open to the public, has indeed been witness to some extraordinary tales - many of them hitherto untold - handed down by Princess Olga's father." -- provided by publisher.

Princesses Behaving Badly

Princesses Behaving Badly
Author: Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Publisher: Quirk Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1594746656

These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . . Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these illustrated tales of “royal terrors who make modern gossip queens seem as demure as Snow White” (New York Post). You think you know her story. You’ve read the Brothers Grimm, you’ve watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But real princesses didn’t always get happy endings—and had very little in common with Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, or Ariel. Featuring illustrations by Wicked cover artist, Douglas Smith, Princesses Behaving Badly tells the true stories of famous (Marie Antoinette; Lucrezia Borgia)—and some not-so-famous—princesses throughout history and around the world, including: • Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Nazi spy. • Empress Elisabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who slept wearing a mask of raw veal. • Princess Olga of Kiev, who slaughtered her way to sainthood. • Princess Lakshmibai, who waged war on the battlefield with her toddler strapped to her back. Some were villains, some were heroes, some were just plain crazy. But none of these princesses felt constrained to our notions of “lady-like” behavior.

Olga Romanov

Olga Romanov
Author: Patricia Phenix
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Princess Olga of Yugoslavia

Princess Olga of Yugoslavia
Author: Robert Prentice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2021-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781839754425

Often called the 'most royal Princess in Europe', Olga's life is imbued with drama from the outset: Taken 'hostage' by her Romanov grandmother, she is further traumatised by the assassination of her grandfather, the King of Greece, followed by a humiliating Swiss exile and being cast aside by a future Danish king. While Olga's marriage to the Prince Regent of Yugoslavia finds her raised to the rank of Consort, it eventually leads to her being branded a 'dangerous traitor' and sent as a 'political prisoner' to Kenya. Yet, as readers will discover, this is ultimately a story of duty, determination and redemption.

The Charmed Wife

The Charmed Wife
Author: Olga Grushin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593085507

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems--the twists and turns of its magical, dark, and swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling.

Fall with Olga the Cloud

Fall with Olga the Cloud
Author: Nicoletta Costa
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1532402740

Learn about seasons with Olga the Cloud Olga is a cute little cloud who gets very lonely in the fall. Autumn is the season when the sun is sleepy so she has no one to play with. Not to worry! Olga calls her friends and they have a little party. When clouds get together, they have lots of fun, but sometimes everyone else gets wet! This book is part of the Olga the Cloud series. Each 12-page story features the charming cloud in simple situations, perfect for teaching babies and toddlers. Olga the Cloud stories were originally published in Italian and are now brought to English audiences in ebook editions. Xist Publishing is proud to present the Olga the Cloud Books to a new generation of children. By bringing beloved stories from diverse cultures to new audiences, Xist Publishing celebrates childhood in all its beautiful forms. We hope your children will enjoy these stories and discover a lifetime love of reading and love for all the people and creatures of the world.

Cult, Culture, and Authority

Cult, Culture, and Authority
Author: Olga Dror
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0824862074

Princess Liễu Hạnh, often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people by her followers, is one of the most prominent goddesses in Vietnamese popular religion. First emerging some four centuries ago as a local sect appealing to women, the princess’ cult has since transcended its geographical and gender boundaries and remains vibrant today. Who was this revered deity? Was she a virtuous woman or a prostitute? Why did people begin worshiping her and why have they continued? Cult, Culture, and Authority traces Liễu Hạnh’s cult from its ostensible appearance in the sixteenth century to its present-day prominence in North Vietnam and considers it from a broad range of perspectives, as religion and literature and in the context of politics and society. Over time, Liễu Hạnh’s personality and cult became the subject of numerous literary accounts, and these historical texts are a major source for this book. Author Olga Dror explores the authorship and historical context of each text considered, treating her subject in an interdisciplinary way. Her interest lies in how these accounts reflect the various political agendas of successive generations of intellectuals and officials. The same cult was called into service for a variety of ideological ends: feminism, nationalism, Buddhism, or Daoism.

Olga of Kyiv

Olga of Kyiv
Author: Celeste Yeakley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Olga of Kyiv could be called the mother of Christianity, yet her life was far from saintly. When her husband was murdered in a most gruesome way, she vowed revenge and executed it with a hardness that few could comprehend. Olga was left to protect their only son, who would become Grand Prince, if he were to live long enough to take the title.Left to rule a violent world, Olga found a way to earn the loyalty of her people. Still, every day brought challenges, including an enormous secret that could never be revealed.How did this woman become a saint? The answer is found in the quest for redemption, the foundation of faith that she instilled in her grandson, and the miracle that followed her death.

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
Author: Andreï Makine
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781559704946

A Russian princess, a refugee from the Bolsheviks, abandoned by a faithless husband, flees with her child to France, where she is subsequently found half-naked on a riverbank next to a body of a man with a terrible wound on his head.

Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Author: Helen Rappaport
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0230768172

Award-winning and critically acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport turns to the tragic story of the daughters of the last Tsar of all the Russias, slaughtered with their parents at Ekaterinburg.