Savchenko P. Russian girl. (part 4)

IV

The first years of the war, when all attention was riveted to the front completely, totally rebuilt the life of the Great Princess Olga. Of the vicious circle of a family with its simple, charming strictly life she had, and the inclination of all the features of its nature, the life stories of workers outside the family, and sometimes a public figure.

The working day began with its nine o'clock in the morning. "Tatiana Olga already flew in the infirmary," - wrote Gosudarynya. They - ordinary Sisters of Mercy. "Today we attended (" I, - writes Gosudarynya - always helping other, convey tools, and Olga prodevaet sewing needle in "), with the first of our big amputation (generally hand was cut off), then we are all doing perevyazki ... very serious in a large hospital. " Talking about one of the sisters, Gosudarynya observed: "It always amazes me his treatment: it is nothing loving and feminine, as in our girls."

The work is usually delayed. Olga and Tatiana (and they are always together) returned only about two, they had many affairs. " Almost daily Gosudarynya recorded:

"The senior girls evening tools are cleaned."

We can not, of course, consider that the price of the Sisters of Mercy, was in the regular work. The emergence of hospital Avgusteyshih daughters Sovereign itself facilitates suffering and agony skrashivalo hours. The more so that they wholeheartedly, by all means want to comfort and heal.

"Olga - wrote Gosudarynya - Naslednika lead in the Grand Palace visit officers who are in a hurry to see it." Gosudarynyu name to the phone to say about dying. "Olga and I went to the Grand Palace to take a look at it. He was lying there so peacefully, covered with my flowers ... "

Often the Great Knyazhnam had to leave themselves in Petrograd for the presidency in the name of charities or their committees to collect donations. For the Great Princess Olga was unusual and very difficult, because it embarrassed, and not liked any personal appearances.

Empress wrote: "Olga and Tatiana, in Olginskom Committee. This is so good for the girls: they learn self-reliance, and they razovyutsya much more time they have to think and speak independently without constant assistance of my ..."; "Sunny morning, and we will, of course, go into the city" - as Olga said ... "I took a Olgu to posidela beside me, it was then more accustomed people to see and hear what was happening. It is a clever child of ..."; "Olga and Tatiana went to the town to accept gifts in the Winter Palace ...";" Exhibition Bazaar operate very well. Our things are booked before they appear, each of us manage to make a pillow and daily casing ..."; "Olga and Tatiana in desperation went to a concert in the city in a circus in favor Olginskogo Committee; without its knowledge, invited all ministers and ambassadors, so she had to go ..."; "Plevitskaya brought Olga money from concerts, which she gave, she sang for Olga in Kiev ..."

Great Knyazhnam often accounted for this time accompanied by Gosudarynyu in her travel to Russia to visit military hospitals and the stakes are.

"The Grand Princess - recalls P. Zhilyar - loved these trips to Lexington, always too short, as they thought, it has made a small change in their monotonous and harsh reality. They enjoy more freedom there than in Tsarskoye Selo.

The station in Mogilev was very far from the city and almost stood in a field. The Grand Princess in their leisure hours visits to the surrounding farmers and families of railway employees. Their simple kindness and bezyskusnaya won all hearts, and because they are very fond of children, they can always be seen surrounded by a flock of kids, which they gathered on the road and zakarmlivali konfektami. "

The work, travel and loneliness Gosudaryni brought together with its "senior", particularly with the Great Princess Olga, it - partly because it is often during this time prihvaryvala.

Recall Gosudaryni excerpts from the letters: "Olga stood up only to walk, and now it remains after tea on the couch, and we will dine upstairs - it is my treatment system - it should lie more as it goes such a pale and tired ..." "Otpravlyayus to church with Olga ...";" I went to the half hour sledge with Olga - it was quiet, there was snow ..."; "In the church no one has been just came lovely Olga."

If someone sick in czarist Families, and she podezhurit (at Gosudaryne), and feeds (paralyzed freylinu book. Orbeliani), cheer (pet-Naslednika during his more powerful).

And in the hours of rest, in those moments when, in the words of Gosudaryni, "at the heart of the songs sound like." Great Princess pobegaet clamouring for meeting rooms with her sister Maria, poezdit top postrelyaet in goal with Naslednikom and then "in a small house" Knyazhon, at the apartment of the AA Vyrubovoy, with the sisters take their guests-baryshen (such as those nearest to it MS Hitrovo and I. Tolstoy), plays with them occasionally invited vyzdorovevshie wounded officers. Houses - often plays on the grand piano, sometimes singing. A lot of reading, and a diary is a pretty large correspondence.

November 1, 1915 Empress Gosudaryu wrote: "warmest congratulations to you the most tender on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the birth of our милой Olga. How time flies! I remember every details of the commemorative day so well that it seems that if it happened only yesterday. "

Co Great Day christening Princess Olga, 14 November, Gosudarynya again spoke about it:

"Yes nisposhlyutsya our children grace of God - I think wrenching fear about their future - it is so unknown. Life-mystery, the future hidden veils, and when I look at our great Olga, my heart is full of excitement, and I ask what it is prepared fate that awaits her? "

Anxiety mother were veschimi.

As early as January 1916, it touched an unexpected plan the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna to promise in marriage Great Princess Olga of Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich. Talking about this with Sovereign, Empress wrote:

"Ah, if our children could be happy in their conjugal life! The idea of Boris dislike too, and I am sure that my daughter would never have agreed for him to marry, and I would have understood it perfectly ..."; "She has the head and heart had other ideas - a holy mystery girl others do not need to know this for Olga would be terribly painful. It is so sensitive ..."; "The more I think about Boris - Gosudarynya writes in a few days - the more I realize, what a terrible company to be dragged his wife ..." And she remembers his daughter, a senior, "clean, fresh girl", which, at eighteen years younger than him.

Of course, this story of the attempts nothing came out.

I Gosudarynya again, the new frontier, asked the same painful questions for her.

"On Thursday we will Olga twenty-one years. Most venerable age. I always ask ourselves, for our girls who marry will be released, and I can not imagine what will be their fate. "

A Great Princess herself? It is hard experienced these life lessons, or go fully to the work, or looking for reliance in all its krepchavshih excellent relationship with the father. With mother, whether by virtue of their proximity, or constant demands for the sake of her old question of relationships "Fathers and Children", those relations are sometimes spoiled. Empress, in the sense of the mother, all considered young daughters, and she once had to suddenly realize that their time is takes.

"Just sad - the spring of 1916, she wrote Gosudaryu, tired complex feelings - There are no small children ... Such complete loneliness - from children in all their love did quite different ideas, and they are rarely aware of my views on things, even the paltry - they always consider themselves right, and when I tell them, I have been brought up and how to be educated, they could not understand. Only when I say calmly with Tatiana, she understood. Olga always very nelyubezna about any proposal, although it's possible that she finally did what I wish. And when I go strict - it is my recommendation ... Olga all the time not in the spirit unhappy that we should dress decently for the infirmary, and not be in the form of the sisters (in the days of Passover), and there must be formally read, it makes all the more difficult because of her mood. "

But these days, small and because of natural irritations and differences took place, and with other Gosudarynya, complete and feelings obemlyuschimi wrote: "Our girls were subjected to a heavy course of their years, and their souls are developed - they actually are nice and so sweet now. They shared all of our mental disturbances, and it taught them to look at people with open eyes, so this will help them very later in life. We are one, and this, alas. rarely depicted in the current time - we are closely linked together. "

Relations with the father of the Great Princess Olga originally evolved.

Outwardly similar to it, "the father of a daughter, as it is often called, since childhood, she falls in love with him warmly.

L. teacher transfers memory of this case: "When Olga for the first time, more crumbs, came in the Smolny (" Smolen Institute ", as they called it then), institutki surrounded her, she was so small that it can not see what lay in one of the tables. "Well, what do you" Great "Princess, which can not look at the table?" - pristali to the girls. Olga reflect, and then breeded pens: "I do not know itself!" - She replied. -- Ask papa, he knows everything! "- and ran to his father to ask him."

We have already noted that the father and became gradually allocate it among daughters, first as a senior and then he unwittingly fell in love with her and more. Kid, straight, with the strong-willed character, but at the same time skromnitsa how dichivshayasya, brightly Russian soul, it is strictly with mental Sovereign was close to him, all the more essential than older and it became samobytnee. When they parted with the onset of war, it is most often the one he wrote long, detailed letters.

Boundless joy was when receiving letters from Sovereign. December 7, 1916 Gosudarynya wrote: "You can not imagine the joy of Olga when she received a telegram tvoju - it is quite porozovela and could not read aloud, it will write to you today itself. Thank you, my dear, for what you have done to this wonderful surprise (on the day of his name on the Sovereign elder daughter remembered) - she and sisters feel as if it was the day of its birth. She immediately sent a telegram Rivne.

Sovereign paid her the same love. On recall, in recent years it has come to the "child" half of the night, waking Olga and shared it with news and ideas.

In January 1915, when they lived in Moscow's Kremlin Palace, and witnessed this happened guards payments Alexandrov military school.

No time expected significant lead, King walked a long corridor, when telegrams brought, it was in an adjacent room and called Olga; appeared in a white sleeping halatike, Gosudar prochityval it all and then soveschalsya with it, walking along the corridor, as with a young friend.

Those memories that tell a different story.

"Olga was so clever, and so isolated in czarist Families that prednaznachali it, in the event of possible death Alexei, in prestolonaslednitsy, for which King was going to change the law Pawlowski."

We know that this idea was in czarist Families, but not during the war years, and prior to the birth Naslednika.

By S. memories of Count Witte, "Naslednik Tsesarevich Alexei was at the light when Sovereign had four daughters, and so the same time, as far as I was aware of the former Minister of Justice NV Muravyova, Their Majesties have a thought or rather, the question is not whether, if they will not have a son, Prince convey eldest daughter. I stress that this was not a decision does, but only a question. This issue dealt with as NV Muravyov, and KP Pobedonostsev, who belonged to such a negative thought, finding that it would have shattered the existing law on prestolonasledii. "

Years went, the situation has changed. But the health Naslednika always impressed upon the most serious concerns.

Who knows, as with other historical relationships would have further destiny of Russia and what role it would play the Great Princess Olga, wise, humble, beloved daughter Sovereign, so loved Russia.

In recent years it has become more and more fond of earnings. Written poems, and the book was her eternal soul.

Najljubši figure of history it was Catherine II.

"All this is just a beautiful phrase - said the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna - and there is no case!"

"Beautiful words of support to people like crutches - Olga objected - when Ekaterina has been said many beautiful words, which then moved to!"

to be continued.....