Grave of Olga Ryzhkova, a widow of Russian priest Nikolai Ryzhkov, in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Olga Alexandrovna Ryzhkova, nee Yaroshevskaya, born on April 28, 1870, was a wife of Nikolai Ryzhkov, a protoiereus of the Russian Orthodox Church and a senior priest of St Nicholas' Church in the Old Town Square in Prague and St Peter and Paul Church in Karlsbad, now Karlovy Vary, in the beginning of the 20th century. He was arrested by the Austrian authorities during World War I and died in 1918. His widow died at age 72 on June
Grave of Olga Ryzhkova, a widow of Russian priest Nikolai Ryzhkov, in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Olga Alexandrovna Ryzhkova, nee Yaroshevskaya, born on April 28, 1870, was a wife of Nikolai Ryzhkov, a protoiereus of the Russian Orthodox Church and a senior priest of St Nicholas' Church in the Old Town Square in Prague and St Peter and Paul Church in Karlsbad, now Karlovy Vary, in the beginning of the 20th century. He was arrested by the Austrian authorities during World War I and died in 1918. His widow died at age 72 on June 22, 1942. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built in 1924-1925 by the Russian white emigre. The underground crypt was used as a burial place for the most notable persons of the Russian emigration in Czechoslovakia.
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