In memory of Baroness Olga Mikhailovna Wrangel.

On September 8, 1968, exactly 54 years ago, Baroness Olga Mikhailovna Wrangel passed away. She was the widow of the last Ruler and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Maria Feodorovna, the daughter of the chamberlain of the Highest Court, and an outstanding figure of the Russian white emigration.

Olga Mikhailovna was an extraordinary woman, worthy of her great husband, Baron Peter Nikolaevich Wrangel, for whom she became a true guardian angel. With the onset of World War I, Baroness Wrangel went to the front as a nurse and remained by her husband's side until the end.

In 1918, she voluntarily went under arrest with Peter Nikolaevich, from where there was only one way out. However, a miracle happened: a Chekist, struck by the determination of the young woman, released the Wrangel couple, while others were ruthlessly killed.

During her husband's rule in Crimea, she actively helped the Russian army and in establishing life on the peninsula. Olga Mikhailovna was a true first lady and, while in exile, often visited the troops in Gallipoli, taking her husband's place, as the allies did not allow him to be with the army.

In the autumn of 1921, the Bolsheviks attempted to kill Baron Wrangel and his family, but due to their wedding anniversary, everyone was on the shore at the time of the assassination attempt. Thus, albeit indirectly, Olga Mikhailovna saved her family from destruction once again.

When the red executioners finally reached Peter Nikolaevich and killed him, the young widow was only 35 years old, but she never remarried. After his death, Olga Mikhailovna moved to the USA with her family, thanks to the assistance of Prince Felix Yusupov. The next four decades she dedicated to her four children and all Russian white emigrants in need of her support.

Olga Mikhailovna passed away in New York and was buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery of the women's monastery of Novo-Diveevo.

Eternal rest and memory to this great woman!