Did you know. . .
I wonder how many people are aware that Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander III and sister of Nicholas II, Russia's last Tsar, died as late as 1960 in relative poverty in an apartment over a barbershop in Toronto.
04 August 2004
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