She was described as very beautiful and well educated, with an average height, a white and ruddy face, with black wavy hair and large black eyes. Among her fiancés were: •
Prince Gustav of Sweden, who arrived in Moscow in 1600, but the engagement was broken because of his dissolute life. •
John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, arrived in 1602, but fell ill and died before the marriage. Xenia remained a maiden until her father's death in 1605, when her brother Feodor became a Tsar. Some months later, when the
Time of Troubles started, her mother and her brother, Feodor, were killed by order of
False Dmitriy I. where Xenia's name is inscribed on the leftmost plaque as "the Nun Olga Borisovna". She was spared, but False Dmitriy
raped her and kept her in his palace as a
concubine lasting five months. Before the arrival of his bride
Marina Mniszech, Xenia was sent to the
Voskresensky Monastery in
Beloozero and forced to take monastic vows, whereupon she was given the name "Olga". Subsequently, she was transferred to the
Assumption Princess Monastery in
Vladimir. According to one account, she was pregnant and bore a son of False Dmitry in the monastery. In 1606 she sojourned to the
Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius to attend the reburial of her father; vestments she sewed as a nun are on display at that Lavra. From 1608 to 1610, the monastery was besieged by the Polish-Lithuanian alliance, but a Russian army ultimately cleared the siege. Her name is inscribed as "Nun Olga Borisovna" at the crypt of the Godunovs near the entrance of the Assumption Cathedral at Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra where she is buried with her parents and brother. ==In the arts==