July 28, 2026

This youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II lived in a 200-room former Baryatinsky mansion in Saint Petersburg and later evaluated the claims of Anna Anderson, who insisted she had escaped revolutionary Russia via Bucharest. Which member of the Romanov family is this?

A Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
B Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
C Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
D Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

Anna Anderson claimed to have escaped from revolutionary Russia via Bucharest, where she said she gave birth to a child by a man named Tchaikovsky. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, who had lived at the Baryatinsky mansion in Saint Petersburg before the Revolution, later called Anderson's 1920 Berlin suicide attempt the only indisputable fact.

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