VERSE: Tsarina Olga I of Imperial Russia
It was a week after her father’s abdication from that fateful train ride that she was told her father had elected her as a possible ruler after her Uncle Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich. He thought with certainty that his brother would accept the throne since he had abdicated and had done so on behalf of Alexei. With both hands on her shoulders he reassured her that it wouldn’t fall on her and that his brother would take over, but they would find out days later that Grand Duke Michael had also rejected the throne. For a few weeks things were left hanging precariously in the balance as Russia now faced the possibility of having a woman as a ruler once again. An idea that had been outlawed for centuries after Catherine the Great.
Ironically what had inhibited her from the throne as a Romanov slavic law was given to her by Bolshevik Marxist leaders believing in equality for all men and women. And after seeing the successes of Britan’s Victoria and their own previous Empress Catherine- the choice was clear. Olga Nikolaevna was young, and from word heard from guards and others nonbiased who had met the young woman discovered she knew far more about Russia and the people than any would expect. With the throne came another set of agreements to follow with. A fair and more powerful Duma that had an equal say as the Tsarina. In her own mind she knew she didn’t have much choice in the matter- either give up the throne to be with her family or continue the Romanov rule and try to redeem her family name.
And so a new Russia welcomed the reign Olga I, Empress of all of Russia.






