Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia Three autograph letters signed ('Olga') to her former tutor Ferdinand Thormeyer, in French; in the first letter Olga says she has started cycling, describs a visit to the zoo ("the animals are in the air and well arranged and looked after") and the movie 'Nuits de Hongrie' they saw ta the cinema, 29 August 1932; in another letter she says "last week we saw with the children a very funny film at the cinema..then Thyra and I went to see Greta Garbo in 'Mata Hari'...if you have time go and see this movie, it is the story of a German spy ", then describing her various activities, her morning walk, her painting "I have painted in the kitchen the portrait of my little friend Egon...after lunch I have painted on porcelain and at three our friends Sousa have come...Their chaffeur (a Russian) got married on Sunday and has three days of leave. Before his marriage he had become so forgetful that he forgot the car in the street, lost the keys of the garage and finally the day before he forgot to turn off the electricity and of course the battery died...", 26 October 1932; in the third letter, she thanks Siocha for his letter and postcard and mentions a very sad letter from Xenia "who left to visit Sandro who is seriously ill in Roquebrune.He hasn't gotten out of bed for I don't know how many months, then he had a heart failure followed by a phlebitis in his rigth leg", 7 November 1932; twelve pages in total, light yellowing, 8vo.