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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 ...
- Fräulein Unbekannt, Anna Tschaikovsky, Anastasia Tschaikovsky, Anastasia Manahan
- Impostor of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
- 12 February 1984 (aged 87), Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
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Mar 15, 2018 · In 1920, a woman claimed she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Did the Romanov princess really escape death or was it the ramblings of a madwoman named Anna Anderson?
The most famous claimant was Anna Anderson, whose case remained in the German courts for more than 30 years until a 1970 ruling declared no conclusive evidence proving Anderson was or was not Anastasia. Anderson’s enigmatic story inspired the French play on which the 1956 film and 1997 animated film of the same name were based.
Feb 9, 2010 · The woman who became known as Anna Anderson continued her fight for recognition, losing several court cases as the decades passed. A French play about her story, Anastasia, debuted in 1954, and...
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Feb 12, 2014 · Time magazine dubbed Anderson one of history’s greatest imposters. One popular theory, which the DNA evidence appears to confirm, is that she was Franziska Schanzkowska, a mentally troubled ...
No. Numerous women—most famously Anna Anderson—claimed to be Anastasia and thus heir to the Romanov fortune. Each said she had survived the execution and escaped. However, DNA tests on Anastasia’s remains conducted after the collapse of the Soviet Union confirmed that she had died with the rest of her family.
