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Sep 27, 2021 · Updated February 27, 2024. It would be nearly a century following her execution that the mystery surrounding Anastasia Romanov would be finally allowed to rest. On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks.
- Bernadette Deron
Jul 3, 2018 · July 3, 2018, 9:08am. Snap. July 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the murder of Anastasia Romanov. She was the youngest Grand Duchess of Russia, but—fittingly for someone whose name means ...
- Lissa Townsend Rodgers
Apr 5, 2020 · Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova (1901-1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar. While many of us know how Nicholas II and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks, so ending the Romanov Dynasty, many of us know less about Nicholas’ children.
Jul 18, 2023 · Born on June 18, 1901, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova was the fourth and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. While the birth of a healthy baby is usually a cause for celebration, Anastasia's birth was a disappointment to the Russian monarchy.
It took modern DNA testing to confirm as recently as 2007 that Anastasia had died with her family in the hellish chaos of that basement room in the summer of 1918. Before that, one fake Anastasia in particular had captured public attention for almost the entire 20th century.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. After she was murdered in the Russian Revolution, she was canonized as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Olga. 15 November 1895 - 17 July 1918 (aged 22) Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna. As the eldest daughter, the onus was often on Olga to set an example to her younger siblings. The most sensitive of ...
