Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna

1839 - 1891

In 1817, Grand Duke Karl of Baden had a problem of succession. Both his sons had died in infancy, and his fifth child, born that year, was yet another daughter.¹ His closest male relatives were two uncles, one of whom had just died without male issue, and the second of whom was unmarried at the age of fifty-four. If the male line of Baden died out, the …