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Although working in the hospital was hard, it was also the period when Olga Nikolaevna lived some of the most beautiful moments of her life. Looking into her diary, we can see quite often one name there – Mitya.

 

According to Valentina Chebotareva, a woman who nursed with Olga, this Mitya was in fact a wounded soldier Dmitri Chakh-Bagov. Chebotareva wrote that Olga’s love for him was “pure, naive, without hope” and that she tried to avoid revealing her feelings to the others.

 

She talked to him regularly on the telephone, was depressed when he left the hospital, and jumped about exuberantly when she received a message from him. Dmitri adored Olga in return and often talked about killing Rasputin for her if she only gave the word, because it was the duty of an officer to protect the Imperial family even against their will.

However, some reported that he showed other officers the letters Olga had written to him when he was drunk.