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Olga Constantinovna of Russia (Greek: Όλγα; 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1851 – 18 June 1926) was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920. A member of the Romanov dynasty , Olga was the oldest daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievich and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg .
File:Queen Olga of Greece after the service at the church of the Holy Trinity of Athens 1891.jpg.
Olga (Church Slavonic: Ольга; [3] [a] Old Norse: Helga; [4] c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) [5] was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа.
A fanciful reconstruction of Phidias' statue of Zeus, in an engraving made by Philippe Galle in 1572, from a drawing by Maarten van Heemskerck. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m (41 ft) tall, [1] made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of ...
Olga of Greece may refer to: Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851–1926), queen of Greece from 1867 until 1913; Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (1903–1997), Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark's daughter; Prince Paul of Yugoslavia's wife; Princess Olga, Duchess of Aosta (b. 1971), daughter of Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark ...
16th-century imagined depictions of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. From left to right, top to bottom: Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria Timeline, and map of the Seven Wonders.
The King and Queen have unveiled statues of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ahead of the annual Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance. The life-sized bronze artworks, commemorating the ...
Princess Olga was born on 11 November 1971 in Athens, Greece. She is the younger sister of Princess Alexandra and grew up in Paris and New York, spending summers at the family's island retreat at Patmos, Greece. [1] She chose to attend boarding school in England, studied history in Rome, and is a graduate of Princeton University. [2]