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Feb 5, 2020 · Patti Wigington. Updated on February 05, 2020. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (June 18, 1901—July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra. Along with her parents and young siblings, Anastasia was captured and executed during the Bolshevik Revolution.
- Patti Wigington
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
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастасия Николаевна Романова, romanized: Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova; 18 June [O.S. 5 June] 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Mar 21, 2018 · USA TODAY. 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...
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The Unsolved Mystery of the Missing Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov. What’s real—and what isn’t—about Russia’s most storied royal family. By Marco Sumayao | Jul 31, 2017. IMAGE PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. However thoroughly debunked, the myths that surround the Romanov family continue to endure.
Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana and Grand Duchess Maria, and was an elder sister of Alexei Nikolaievitch, Tsarevitch of Russia. She was murdered with her family on July 17, 1918, during the Russian Civil War by forces of the Bolshevik secret police.
Apr 2, 2014 · Mystery. In the years following the Romanovs' murders, speculation arose as to whether Anastasia and her brother might have survived the execution. Rumors circulated that they were shielded...
