It is with a deep sense of sadness for me to announce that Mrs. Olga Kulikovsky-Romanov died yesterday (1st May 2020) at the age of 94.

In 1986 she married Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (1917-1993) – the son of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960) and Colonel N.A. Kulikovsky (1881-1958).

Olga Kulikovsky’s father, Nikolai Nikolaevich Pupynin was a hereditary nobleman of the Tambov province, a military Cossack officer of the Imperial and White armies, and participant in the famous Ice campaign.

Her mother, Nina Konradovna Kopernitskaya was an artist and sculptor, educated in Warsaw and Munich. From 1920, the family was in exile: first in Yugoslavia, after World War II in Venezuela.

Olga Kulikovsky (nee Pupynina) graduated from the Mariinsky Don Institute of Noble Maidens (Smolny branch), who were evacuated from Novocherkassk during the Civil War to Bila Tserkva, Yugoslavia. During the Second World War, she was interned in Germany (Stuttgart), where she worked in a factory and survived the barbaric bombing of civilians by British and American aircraft. Subsequently, she moved to South America, received a medical, commercial, architectural education, and learned seven languages. After moving to Canada, she worked as a translator in government agencies.

Over the years Olga Kulikovsky participated in public activities in Russia, transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church some shrines preserved in the Kulikovsky family associated with the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers, she did a lot to popularize the artistic work of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. From 1991, she headed the Foundation named after her mother-in-law.

Despite her age, she worked tirelessly to help clear the name of Russia’s much slandered Tsar and his family.

The cause of death has not yet been specified. She was found dead at her home in Balashikha, Moscow Region, where she lived. She will be buried with her husband Tikhon, and her mother-in-law at York Cemetery in Toronto, Canada.

Memory Eternal! Вечная Память!

© Paul Gilbert. 2 May 2020