World memory: Exhibition “To the blessed memory of the young hero”, timed to the 95th anniversary of the end of the World War I, at the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve

November 11, 2013 at the library of the Pavlovsk Museum Reserve opened the exhibition “To the blessed memory of the young hero”, dedicated to the Prince Oleg Konstantinovich. The exhibition is timed to the 95^th anniversary of the end of the World War I.

The exhibition features a collection of materials of the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve. Among them there are a large number of photos of the family of Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov, his wife and their children. From the collection of the Pavlosvsk Museum-Reserve are exhibited two paintings by O. E. Braz: a portrait of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov and a portrait of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna donated by Oleg Konstantinovich for adult age.

For the first time are exhibited postcards of 1900-1910 with the views of Pavlovsk, made during the life o the Grand Prince.

It should be allocated items of new acquisitions in the museum collection. This medal, established by the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin, Konstantin Roerich’s book “Critical Reviews” signed by the author, the magazine “Niva” dedicated to the memory of Prince Oleg, who was killed while performing the sacred duty of serving the Fatherland.

In 2014, will be celebrated the centenary of the beginning of the World War I. Among the first who sacrificed their lives for the Fatherland, was a representative of the royal family Prince Oleg.

Oleg Konstantinovish was born on November 15, 1892 in St. Petersburg in the Marble Palace in the family of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna (nee Mary Elizabeth August Agnes, daughter of the Prince of Saxe -Altenburg, Duke Moritz of Saxony).

In 1903, Prince Oleg entered the Polotsk Cadet Corps, and in the spring of 1910 he graduated. In 1910, Prince was officially credited to the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. Years of study coincided with the preparation of the centennial celebration of the Lyceum. By the day of the celebration, Prince Oleg released a facsimile edition of Pushkin’s manuscripts.

July 23, 1914 Oleg Konstantinovich gets on the front: “We are five brothers go to war with our shelves. I like fear, because it shows that in difficult times the royal family keep itself on top of the situation…” - this is the first line of the regimental diary of Grand Prince.

September 27, 1914 Oleg Konstantinovich, who commanded a platoon in his regiment, was severely wounded near the village Pilvishki in Vladislavov district (present-day Lithuania). September 28, he was taken to the hospital Vilna. On the same day, Prince Oleg was awarded the Order of Saint George IV degree “for the courage and bravery shown during the skirmish and the destruction of German patrols”. September 29, Oleg Konstantinovich died.

In memory of his son, his parents published a book “Prince Oleg” which included poems, prose, drawings, letters, as well as notes from his diary.