Yesterday the Russian Imperial House announced the death of Olga Nikolaevna Kulikovskaya. Olga was the third wife and widow of Tikhon Nicholaievich Kulikovsky (1917 - 1993), the elder son of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882 - 1960) and her second husband Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (1881 - 1958). Olga Nikolaevna Kulikovskaya was born Olga Nikolaevna Pupynina on 20 September 1926 at Valevo, Yugoslavia, to Nikolai Nikolaevich Pupynin and Nina Konradovna Kopernitskaya.
Olga Pupynina studied at the Mariinsky Don Institute of Noble Maidens, which had been evacuated from Novocherkassk during the Russian Revolution to Bila Tserkva, Yugoslavia. During World War II, she was interned at Stuttgart, where she worked in a factory. After the war ended and she was released, Olga moved to Venezuela, before relocating to Canada, where she worked as a translator for the Canadian government. At some point, Olga Pupynina married a Mr Barton. On 8 June 1986, Olga Nikolaevna Pupynina married Tikhon Nicholaievich Kulikovsky (b.Ay-Todor, Crimea 25 August 1917) at Toronto. Olga's husband was a nephew of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918). After almost seven years of marriage, Tikhon passed away at Toronto on 8 April 1993. Olga Kulikovskaya was active in promoting the artistic works of the imperial mother-in-law who she never met: Grand Duchess Olga.
