Was Anastasia a hoax or is it possible she was the lost Crown Princess of Russia?

Question

I just watched the 1956 version of Anastasia with Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner. Apparently it was based off a true story. The movie didn't quite make it clear but I'm interested in if historically this woman might really have been the daughter of the Royal Family.

Answer 1

During the 1920's serveral women came forward claiming to be the Last Grand Duchess. A woman named Anna Anderson acually succeeded in convincing many people that she was indeed Anastasia Nicholaievna Romanov. Anna Anderson died in the 1960's, before DNA testing could prove or disprove her claim. Books and movies about Anastasia's survival keet the myth alive.

Answer 2

The bones of most of the Romanov family have been found, and they have said that they have more than likely found the remains of Anastasia with all the rest of the family as one of the skeletons was found to have the same sized growth plates as Anastasia would have had. There was two people missing though, and they have said that it is almost certainly their haemophilliac son Alexie and their OLDER daughter Maria. The chances of him being shot then loaded into a truck and falling off somewhere and surviving is so increadibly unlikely considering his condition however, that it's almost non-existant. So far though, nobody believable has come forward claiming to be Maria.

Answer 3

You live in a dream world buddy.

                 IT'S A HOAX

Answer 4

It was actually real,its in many history books but im not too sure that the lady who came back and claimed to be her was actually her but they also didnt find her body after the incident happen with her family.

Answer 5

I really don't know. Maybe you should look it up on google or sometrhing.

Answer 6

I wrote an undergraduate history paper on her subject. In that paper , I was very fortune to have come accross the internet by correspondence with an Russian history professor, who gave me his findings and DNA reports of Tzarists Anastasia that she was really killed by the Bolsheviks back than during the Russian Revolution. The late Anastasia was a hoax. Even so til that day she is claiming it to be Anastasia. Heck I would too with all these billion's of rubels. LOL. Hope this answers your question

A good history book to read would be following

http://www.amazon.com/Anastasia-Grand-Du...

Answer 7

The DNA tests proved it could not have been. However everything else including her story fit perfectly.

Answer 8

Anastasia (Anastasia Nikolayevna)  (ănstā´sh nyÄ­klī´fnă) , 1901—18, youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, last of the Russian czars. She was killed with the rest of her immediate family after the Russian Revolution, but several women later claimed to be her.

hope this would help you..

thanks!

Answer 9

It was proved by DNA testing a few years ago, that it was a hoax. Anna Anderson had a history of mental problems.

Edit - Yes, she died before DNA testing, but they had samples of her hair to work with.

Answer 10

Anna Anderson was just one of many women who over the last 90 days since the murder of the Romanov Imperial Family, has claimed to be any one of the children

As others have state, Anna Anderson has been proven not to be Anastasia based on DNA.  Others who have claimed to be Anastasia have refused to take a DNA test to verify if they are.  Anna Anderson is by far for the most part the best known name of an imposter, partially because possibly of that movie you watched and then the Fox cartoon movie Anastasia

I live in a fairy tale world too where I honestly believe that two children escaped, the young boy and one of the girls.  Until the missing bodies of the two children are found no one ever know what really happened to them and if one of them possibly survived

FYI, last week marked the 89th anniversary since they were assassinated at the hand of the Bolsheiviks

Suzanne

Answer 11

She wasn' the daughter of the last Tsar of Russia. They done DNA testing and her blood didn't match the rest of the family they found buried. Maybe Anastasia family was in service to the Imperial family and was able to make up these stories. This so called Anastasia Anderson was a pure fake.

Answer 12

She wasn't the real Anastasia.  They did DNA testing a few years ago and it prove she wasn't.  The real Anastasia was a Grand Duchess not a crown princess.