C&H Cultuur & Historie
Van Soemerië tot Moskovië en van de Gouden Eeuw tot de Slag bij de Somme. Je vindt het in dit forum.
idd een oude vrouw!
Nee, wel intressant is dat deze dame gedurende haar hele leven maar een jaar of 4 zelf heeft gekookt!
Ah, dus ze was geen kok van beroep? Of was ze misschien tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog in dienst als kokkin en trouwde ze daarna een culinair zelfstandige man? Het kan weet je.
Idd, Groot Hertogin Olga Alexandrovna van Rusland,
http://www.fortunecity.co(...)lgaalexandrovna.htmlquote:Alexander III's youngest child, czar Nicholas II's little sister grand duchess Olga Alexandrovna, was born in porfirorodnyj. That means: she was born when her father was a ruling monarch. When Nicholas and her other siblings were born Alexander was only czarevich.
Olga Alexandrovna was 34 at the time of the revolution. She became, as the time went by, a very eccentric old lady who died in great poverty in 1960, Toronto, Canada. She managed fine without the privilege of a grand duchess. Even though she wasn't a intellectual or had have any grander education, she had, through her life, a glow of a very characteristic Russian intellectual kind: Why spend time cooking when it could be spend much better, on walks, painting or even daydreaming. She was proud of who she was; when a small girl in Canada asked her if it were true that she was a princess, Olga Alexandrovna said: I'm really not a princess, I'm a Russian grand duchess! But she also said, without sentimentality: I have realised that it's 1000 times better to be a poor immigrant among poor peasants then among rich royalties and aristocracy.
