Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895 to 1918) was the eldest child of Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor, and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. She never reigned and held no office of her own, so she sits among the Monarchs only as a member of the imperial house; but her position as the first-born of the reigning house made her a figure of dynastic politics: before the birth of her brother Alexei, rumor held that her father would name her heir, and her possible marriages to foreign and Russian princes were the subject of wide speculation in Russia and across Europe. During the First World War she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the family was arrested and held at Tsarskoye Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg, and she was murdered in 1918. The Russian Orthodox Church later canonized her as a passion bearer, and in the 1990s her remains were identified by DNA testing and buried with those of her parents and two of her sisters in Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg.