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Leonid Bolotin: Dear Olga Nikolaevna, the fifteenth anniversary of the blessed death of your Spouse has approached - Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov, Grandson of the Most Pious Emperor of All Russia Alexander Alexandrovich the Peacemaker and the native Nephew of the Holy Most Pious Emperor-Great Martyr Nikolai Alexandrovich. For us, the Russian Tsarists, who in 1990 received the August blessing of Your Spouse for Orthodox-monarchical social, spiritual, educational and political activities, His Personality, His Image remains to this day and for the coming years a reliable beacon in the stormy sea and the world of political betrayals and whims on the way to the coastal strongholds of the Orthodox Russian Autocracy. Tikhon Nikolaevich’s address “To young Russian people,” sent to us at the very beginning of 1990, determined the consciousness and fate of thousands and thousands of Russian monarchists: “With God’s help, repentance and vigilance, we will win!” Olga Nikolaevna, what can you say now about the significance of your Spouse in the revival of Russian national identity in modern Russia?

Olga Nikolaevna Kulikovskaya-Romanova: Leonid, you’ve become completely pathetic. Is it worth talking about Tikhon Nikolaevich on such a pompous note?! My dear Tikhon was happy to learn that in sub-Soviet Russia a completely open awakening of the Orthodox essence of the Russian People began. Stories about prayer services and the return of the Church to Orthodox churches on television, the same messages in Soviet and American newspapers, visits to us in Canada by like-minded Orthodox compatriots and, finally, living, authentic letters from our Fatherland, including from your Brotherhood Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas, made us understand that something fundamentally new is happening in our Fatherland, not at all connected with perestroika and Gorbachev. Tikhon Nikolaevich immediately caught this living, uninvented, unprovoked movement of his dear hearts and responded with all his soul to this phenomenon. This is the main reason that He decided to address His word to young Russians... After all, there was no concept of “new Russian” then?

Bolotin: Olga Nikolaevna, it’s hard for me to resist pathos. After all, then the appeal of Tikhon Nikolaevich, first in our narrow circle, and then many times replicated in patriotic publications, had such an inspiring effect on all of us, with which I cannot compare other appeals and appeals. Before the “new Russians” there were us - “old Russians”, young, but turned to Holy Rus' and its Sacred History... Now they don’t remember the “new Russians” at all, and those same “young Russian people”, who have matured, continue to prepare their hour of God's Truth...

O.N. Kulikovskaya-Romanova: You yourself cited the words of my dear Tikhon: “By repentance and vigilance...” Yes, these words are not outdated. So be vigilant, prudent, judicious!!! You have a huge responsibility before the Fatherland! Don't fall for political baits and provocations! Take care of your impulse for God’s work of the Resurrection of Russia! This is exactly what Tikhon Nikolaevich wrote to you about!

All that was determined by my Spouse - Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov in 1989-1993, all subsequent times I tried to implement in specific acts of repentance - here in Russia. Almost seventeen years have passed since my first trip to my homeland in December 1991; since then, apparently, I have lived in Russia for at least seven years. I didn’t count specifically, but now I spend much of the year not in Canada, but with you, in my historical homeland...

When Russia was completely unbearable, when hospitals and clinics did not have the most necessary things, the Charitable Foundation in the name of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, founded by Tikhon Nikolaevich, sent containers with medical equipment, related equipment, medicines, food and clothing to Russia. This happened during the life of Tikhon Nikolaevich. And even then, by the will of my Spouse, we sought to implement the spiritual and educational programs of our Foundation, to provide not only material support, but also spiritual food... You, Leonid, know this well. And in the fall of 2002, a triumphant series of exhibitions of artistic works by Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the August Mother of Tikhon Nikolaevich, began in Russia. The time has passed when Russia needed functional beds, hemodialysis machines, disposable syringes, medical gloves and hospital beds. With all this, our Motherland can already provide for its fellow citizens. This was the manifestation of the will of Tikhon Nikolaevich!

Bolotin: Of course, this is the general line of fulfilling the will of your Spouse, but does it only come down to this?

O.N. Kulikovskaya-Romanova: There were two main directions in which Tikhon Nikolaevich lived.

Firstly, this is recognition of the glorification of the Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas, the Holy Royal Martyrs and all the New Martyrs of Russia here in Russia; canonical recognition of Their holiness by the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Tikhon Nikolaevich prayed with all his heart at the cathedral service of glorification of the Holy Royal Martyrs on November 1, 1981 in our cathedral in New York. This was an unforgettable event for Him. He all the time remembered that grace, about His impressions and told me about it... The glorification of the Royal Family, according to His personal confession, was the most important event of his life. In some transcendental sense - the purpose of His earthly life.

Throughout our years together, we lived with the dream that canonical recognition of glorification by our Church Abroad would also happen in Russia. Tikhon Nikolaevich wrote about this to His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' and received quite encouraging answers from Moscow...

Then it seemed to us that the canonization of the Holy Royal Martyrs was about to happen. But only in August 2000, constantly remembering Tikhon in prayer in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, I became a witness to the glorification in Russia and in all Orthodox Churches of the Holy Tsar Nicholas and His Family! Standing on the right choir near the Altar of the revived temple, I always felt the presence of my dear Tikhon. I thought this: now the service will end, and Tikhon and I will go home to drink our traditional afternoon tea... I looked around... and cried: my dear Tikhon is no longer with me. He is only with me in spirit.

The second cardinal, heartfelt issue for Tikhon Nikolaevich was the excitement of the world media around the so-called “Ekaterinburg remains”. I well remember our mood with Tikhon when there were reports in the world press and on television about the new “Tsar’s Grave”. Who, if not Tikhon Nikolaevich, would like to rejoice at the discovery of the remains of His August Uncle, Aunt and cousins!

I remember well how Tikhon Nikolaevich read the first reports about the discovery of the burial ground, reprinted from the Soviet newspaper “Moscow News” and the magazine “Rodina”. I was ready to rejoice with Tikhon that the seventy-year-old secret of Their martyrdom had been revealed. At first, I did not understand my Husband’s wary, thoughtful attitude towards these messages. And only then did He begin to explain to me in detail, almost like a child, that the investigative documents of 1918-1919 testify to one thing, but the television, newspaper and magazine sensation presents something else, completely changing the meaning of what happened.

What started later, when they started calling us and sending us faxes demanding Tikhon Nikolaevich’s blood, I can’t even describe now. One thing is clear to me: these lawless demands from Russian experimenters and criminologists undermined Tikhon Nikolaevich’s peace of mind and disrupted the spiritual rhythm of his heart. My Husband was going to Russia, we were preparing for this trip for Easter 1993, but during a routine examination he had a heart attack...

Bolotin: I remember, Olga Nikolaevna, that your message about Tikhon Nikolaevich’s heart attack on the very Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos plunged us all into grief and numbness. We all prayed as best we could for healing, but the Lord called our earthly August Patron to Himself. To this day I remember the unbearable pain from the message from you on April 8, 1993. All the tears had been shed in prayer before. There was only dry, completely without tears, unconscious horror: we were all left face to face with world lawlessness. There was only one thought: no one will protect us royally.

O.N. Kulikovskaya-Romanova: I couldn’t even retell my feelings during those hours and days. I understood with my mind all the condolences from the Russian Abroad, from Russia. These heartfelt words applied to someone else, but not to my dear Tikhon, not to me... I looked at all this from the outside and... cried, cried, cried... I feel the taste, the salt of these tears until still, as if a decade or another half a decade had not passed... How I kissed my dear Tikhon’s chest, how I called him back, and now I call him... Forgive me, it is impossible to explain and tell. Now, of course, it is much easier. Spiritual communication with dear Tikhon has not been interrupted for a minute all these years. Simply, all these years, I tried with all my might to fulfill the will of Tikhon Nikolaevich, clearly and unambiguously expressed and determined during his lifetime. This is exactly how He fulfilled before my eyes the spiritual will and aspirations of His Mother - Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. This is exactly how Tikhon addressed His August Grandmother, Empress Maria Feodorovna. And in these appeals I received not only the answer I was looking for, but also real spiritual help and completely practical support.

If Tikhon Nikolaevich had not supported me all these fifteen years, there would have been nothing at all in the activities of the Charitable Foundation named after His August Mother after his death.

It is unbearably bitter for me to remember this day, but the Orthodox Church, but the church service, but the candle on the eve and the prayer for the Blessed Bolyarin Tikhon Nikolaevich give me consolation, give me strength for life and for fulfilling the will of my Husband, His Mother...

Bolotin: Forgive me, Olga Nikolaevna, for being somewhat unceremoniously interested in intimate and spiritual subjects like a journalist. What was spiritually important in the everyday life of Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov?

O.N. Kulikovskaya-Romanova: Tikhon Nikolaevich always reminded me of His Mother’s coat of arms motto: “To be, not to appear.” He never seemed, did not imagine himself as someone else... He was and remains himself. And even now. I see and feel it.

Bolotin: Tikhon Nikolaevich died on the day of the rite of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, in commemoration of the Council of the Archangel Gabriel. His blessed death is inextricably linked with the confessional or secret martyrdom of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in 1925. What can you, Olga Nikolaevna, wish for in this spiritual connection, advise us, zealots of the memory of Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov?

O.N. Kulikovskaya-Romanova: I wish you and myself only a heartfelt prayer for the soul of my dear Tikhon, who himself - with the Confessors and New Martyrs of Russia - stands at the Throne of God. And the rest will follow you.

Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexy, princesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, who were brutally murdered in 1918, we met with Princess Olga Nikolaevna Kulikovskaya-Romanova.

Olga Nikolaevna is the widow of Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov, the nephew of Nicholas II.

Tikhon Nikolaevich was the last representative of the House of Romanov, born during the life of the Royal Family in August 1917. At this time, the family was already under illegal arrest in Tobolsk.

The Kulikovsky-Romanovs lived in Canada until recently, where they founded the charitable Foundation for Assistance to Russia named after Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna.

Our meeting with Olga Nikolaevna took place in the monastery in the name of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers on Ganina Yama near Yekaterinburg, in the very place where 92 years ago the Bolsheviks destroyed the remains of the Russian emperor and his family.

The princess kindly agreed to talk with our correspondent Valery Leonov.

Olga Nikolaevna, we are very glad to see you in Russia. We know about the activities of the charitable Foundation for Assistance to Russia, of which you are the chairman. But our readers are also interested in your personality as a representative of the House of Romanov. Please tell us a little about yourself.

What can I tell you about myself? Tikhon Nikolaevich, my husband, was the son of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and, accordingly, the nephew of Emperor Nicholas (II) Alexandrovich. At the same time, he is the grandson of Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna. In addition, he is also the grandson of the Danish king. This is only part of our genealogy, which can be told for a long time.

Tell me, do you maintain relationships with your relatives? How close is your relationship?

As in any family. Now, if you have brothers, do you see them often?

Trying.

Are you trying?

Yes, it all depends on the distances.

And it’s exactly the same with us. Sometimes we see each other, sometimes we call each other. In general, we try to maintain relationships in different ways.

Olga Nikolaevna, this is not your first time in Russia. What are your impressions from your current visit?

Are they positive, in your opinion?

And what do you think?

Hope so.

So! Of course, everything is moving forward, and everything is going more or less for the better, the only pity is that traffic jams remain unchanged.

Today is the Day of Remembrance of the Royal Passion-Bearers Nicholas II and his family. The next question suggests itself. Monarchy in Russia - is it possible?

This is, of course, a sensitive issue. With God everything is possible. But I don’t know if the people are ready for this. You see, if 50, 100 or 200 people really want it, but the rest don’t want it, what to do then?

Our saints said that a believer is stronger than a hundred unbelievers.

Let us then pray that these 100 believers will defeat the 10 thousand unbelievers.

Fine! We don't dare detain you for long. Surely, you are tired from the road, and even after such a religious procession, after all, from Yekaterinburg to Ganina Yama is more than 20 km.

I didn’t walk, but, of course, at the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg I stood through the entire All-Night Vigil service and Liturgy, and even took communion.

Congratulations on your Holy Communion. Olga Nikolaevna, our next judgment may seem incorrect to you, but still. You discussed whether the people were ready to receive the Tsar, i.e. to repentance. Here's a counter question. In the book “Anatomy of Treason”, the famous writer of the Russian diaspora, Viktor Kobylin, expresses a not very flattering opinion about the members of the Royal Family. I mean the attitude towards the Emperor and Alexandra Feodorovna long before the coup of 1917. The same applies to the generals of the Russian army. Maybe the point here is not only and not so much about betrayal on the part of the people?

Do you want to hear my answer? I can only repeat the words of the sovereign...

These words?

You know it yourself. These are the classic words: “There is treason, cowardice and deceit all around.”

It seems to me that the situation has changed now.

What changed?

Attitude.

To our Emperor.

I do not know. Now the Emperor is not there to confirm or deny this. I adhere to his words, since he said it, it means he felt it, it’s not for me to judge.

Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov(August 25, 1917, Ai-Todor, Crimea - April 8, 1993, Toronto) - son of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960) and Colonel Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (1881-1958), grandson of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, nephew of the emperor Nicholas II.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Marriages and children
- 1.2 Death
2 Dynastic disputes
- 2.1 Genetic testing
3 Notes
4 Links
5 Literature

Biography

Tikhon Nikolaevich was the first son in the family of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (1881-1959, from the hereditary nobles of the Voronezh province, colonel, participant in the First World War as part of the 12th Hussar Akhtyrsky Regiment, whose chief was Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna) . Born in Crimea, where Olga Alexandrovna’s family moved with Empress Maria Feodorovna in March 1917 after the February Revolution. Maria Fedorovna wrote:

Just that evening, when I felt completely lost, my sweet Olga gave birth to Baby, a little son who brought such unexpected joy to my broken heart... I am very glad that Baby appeared just at that moment when from grief and despair I suffered terribly.

From a letter from Maria Feodorovna to Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna

According to a vow, it was named in honor of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk. Home nickname - Tishka.

After the murder of the royal family and grand dukes and the subsequent departure of a number of family members abroad, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and her family remained the only representatives of the House of Romanov in Russia. They lived in the village of Novominskaya in the Kuban. Only in 1920, with the approach of the Red Army, Tikhon Nikolaevich, together with his parents and brother, left Russia and emigrated to Denmark, where his grandmother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (before her marriage to Emperor Alexander III - Princess Dagmara, daughter of the Danish King Christian IX), had already arrived. Tikhon Kulikovsky-Romanov was brought up in the Russian spirit, spoke excellent Russian and was closely and directly connected with refugees from Russia, since his parents’ house gradually became the center of the Russian colony in Denmark. He received his education in Russian gymnasiums in Berlin and Paris, then studied at the Danish military school and served in the Danish Royal Guard. During the Second World War, after the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht, he was arrested in special camps with the Danish army, and spent several months in prison. In 1948, together with the family of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, he had to leave Denmark and worked in the Department of Roads of the Province of Ontario.

Marriages and children

Main article: Kulikovsky-Romanovs

In 1942 in Copenhagen he married Agnet Petersen (1920-2007). Divorced in 1955, there were no children from the marriage. On September 21, 1959, in Ottawa, he married Livia Sebastian (June 11, 1922 - June 12, 1982), from the marriage he had one daughter, Olga Tikhonovna (b. January 9, 1964 in Toronto, since 1994 the wife of Joyce Cordeiro) and four grandchildren:

Peter (b. 1994),
Alexander (b. 1996),
Mikhail (b. 1999),
Victor (b. 2001).

Death

On April 6, 1993, Tikhon Nikolaevich was hospitalized at Women’s College Hospital, and it was determined that he had suffered a myocardial infarction. On April 8, after a second heart operation, Tikhon Nikolaevich died. The funeral service took place on April 15 at Holy Trinity Church in Toronto. The burial took place on the same day at the York Cemetery, in the north of Toronto, next to his parents, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Colonel N.A. Kulikovsky.

On April 10, 1993, the Russian newspaper Izvestia published a Reuters report with the headline “Another contender for the Russian throne has died.”

Dynastic disputes

Tikhon Nikolaevich never recognized the dynastic rights of the Kirillov branch of the Romanovs (descendants of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich). Although he himself clearly did not claim to inherit the throne, his candidacy was supported by a number of monarchist organizations that believed that the tsar should be elected at the All-Russian Zemsky Sobor. He was an honorary member of the Association of Members of the Romanov Family, and was an arbiter of the Supreme Monarchist Council (Chairman of the Council - D. . Weimarn), in 1991 organized the “Charity Foundation named after Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna.” Tikhon Nikolaevich was also a trustee of the “Orthodox Brotherhood in the name of Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II.” At the height of perestroika, Tikhon Nikolaevich addressed the Russians with a number of appeals. One of them was devoted to the need to rename the city of Sverdlovsk to Yekaterinburg.

Genetic examination

Since T. N. Kulikovsky-Romanov was the closest surviving relative of Emperor Nicholas II in the early 1990s, his genetic material should have been a strong argument in identifying the remains of the imperial family. During his lifetime, Kulikovsky-Romanov refused to provide such material to experts, believing that the investigation was not being conducted at the proper level, by incompetent people and organizations, and shortly before his death he even made a public protest against attempts to “pass off unknown bones discovered in one of the Ural Mountains as the Remains of the Royal Martyrs.” burials." However, samples of his blood taken during the operation were preserved and handed over to the Russian expert E.I. Rogaev for research. Rogaev's research showed a 100% probability of relationship between T.N. Kulikovsky-Romanov and the person who owned “skeleton No. 4” - the remains of Nicholas II.

New discussions about the genetic material of Kulikovsky-Romanov and how the heirs dispose of it were sparked by the discovery of the remains of the children of Nicholas II - Maria and Alexei.

Notes

GARF. F. 686. Op. 1. D. 84. Lll. 59-66 Maria Feodorovna - leader. book Olga Konstantinovna. Ai-Todor, 1917 (Danish)
Kudrina Yu. V. Empress Maria Fedorovna. 1847-1928 - M.: OLMA-PRESS, 202. - P. 241.
T. N. Kulikovsky-Romanov, last days.
Grigoryan V. G. Biographical reference book/Valentina Grigoryan. - M.: AST: Guardian, 2007. - P. 242.
V. Pribylovsky “There is no agreement among the supporters of the crown”
V. Pribylovsky “Descendants of the Romanovs”

Literature

Kulikovskaya-Romanova O. N. Tsar's family. M.: Derzhava, 2005. ISBN 5-7888-0006-7
Grigoryan V. G. Biographical reference book. - M.: AST: Guardian, 2007. - 507 p. - ISBN 5-271-14396-1.
Pchelov E.V. Romanovs: History of the dynasty. - M.: OLMA-PRESS, 2004. - 494 p.

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Biography

Tikhon Nikolaevich was the first son in the family of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (1881-1959), from the hereditary nobles of the Voronezh province, colonel, participant in the First World War as part of the 12th Hussar Akhtyrsky Regiment, whose chief was Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna . Born in Crimea, where Olga Alexandrovna’s family moved with Empress Maria Feodorovna in March 1917 after the February Revolution. Maria Fedorovna wrote:

According to a vow, it was named in honor of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk. Home nickname - Tishka.

Marriages and children

Peter (b. 1994),
Alexander (b. 1996),
Mikhail (b. 1999),
Victor (b. 2001).

Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky Romanov biography. House of the Romanovs. Kulikovsky-Romanov, Tikhon Nikolaevich Information About

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Marriages and children

Death

Dynastic disputes

Genetic examination

Notes

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Literature

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