this is an ask but can you tell me about olga and Tatiana god children anyas Vyrubovas nieces the ones otma babysat I never new before that olga and Tatiana had god children apparently the pistolekors i think their surname was?
Hello! Thank you for your question. Of course, I have included some information below. Here is a lovely photo of Olga Nikolaevna with her goddaughter Olga Alexandrovna, and the two godchildren together:
The girls were the nieces of Anna Vyrubova. Vyrubova's sister, Alexandra Alexandrovna, married Alexander Erikovich Pistohlkors.
Their first child, Tatiana Alexandrovna Pistohlkors, was born in 1910. Tatiana Nikolaevna was her godmother.
The second child, Olga Alexandrova Pistohlkors, was born in 1912. Olga Nikolaevna was her godmother.
A third child, Alexandra Alexandrovna Pistohlkors, was born in 1914.
Anastasia, Olga, and Tatiana with Anna Vyrubova and her sister Alexandra Pistohlkors, and Alexandra Alexandrovna with her children.
The Pistohlkors family would often spend their summer in Tsarskoe Selo. During this time, the elder Grand Duchesses would frequently visit to play with them, bathe them, and put them to bed for the night.
The eldest child. The family moved to Finland, and then Lausanne, in the lead up to the Revolution. When she was old enough, Tatiana Alexandrovna entered a university in Lausanne. She married into a noble family, marrying Count Nicolas von der Palen in 1933. She had at least four children. Sadly, she passed away in 1968, aged only 57.
Olga Alexandrovna was married twice, and had three daughters; Nina, Elisabeth, and Katarina. Unfortunately, there is not as much information about her available, other than that she apparently had a remarkable memory :) She took courses in typing and stenography. She settled in Sweden, and passed away in 2011, aged 98.
There are lots of lovely photographs of the girls as children from Anna Vyrubova's albums, which I have included above.
This photograph on the left is often mislabelled as being the Grand Duchesses, when it is actually Vyrubova's nieces, as you can see by the accompanying photograph :)
Thanks again for the question!
📍📷 Vyrubova's albums: Yale University Library Digital Collections: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, GEN MSS 313, Anna Vyrubova Album 3 [accessed 22 September 2025]
📷 Photo of OTMA and Alya: GARF F. 673. Op. 1 D. 203 L. 18
📍 Anna Vyrubova, Страницы изъ моей жизни (1923)
