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Anna Anderson (born Franziska Schanzkowska; 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984) was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra , was murdered along with her parents and siblings on 17 July 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries ...
Though the last Tsar of Imperial Russia, Nicholas II, and his family were executed in July 1918, rumors spread that Nicholas's youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia, somehow escaped and survived.
In 1920s Berlin, suicidal asylum patient Anna Anderson (Amy Irving) claims to be Anastasia Romanov, the supposedly dead daughter of the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, who was dethroned and murdered by the Communists along with his entire immediate family during the Russian Revolution.
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- 1986-12-07
- Biography, Drama, Mystery
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Sep 27, 2021 · 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. Though the Bolsheviks claimed to have murdered the entire family, their bodies had been so marred and later buried in unmarked graves that many speculated the ...
- Bernadette Deron
Mar 21, 2018 · Ariel Lawhon breathes new life into one of the 20th century’s most intriguing mysteries — what became of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia — in the novel I Was Anastasia...
- Mary Cadden
- Books Reporter/Booklist Editor
Both books examined the case of Anna Anderson (1896-1984), who claimed to be Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, Grand Duchess of Russia but was later identified as Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish factory worker with a history of mental illness.
The movie is based upon the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. The youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Anastasia was brutally murdered along with her parents and siblings by the Bolsheviks, in an attempt to prevent them from reclaiming
