What can you tell me about princess Anastasia? The whole mystery behind it. I never quite understood it.?

Question

What can you tell me about princess Anastasia? The whole mystery behind it. I never quite understood it.?

Answer 1

The people who killed her family claimed that they killed her too.

Several women have claimed to have been Anastasia, the most famous of whom was Anna Anderson. Anderson's body was cremated upon her death in 1984. Despite support for her claim from several people who knew Anastasia and denial by many who knew the real Anastasia, DNA testing in 1994 on pieces of Anderson's tissue and hair showed no relation to DNA of the Grand Duchess.

Answer 2

The last Russian Czar and his family, including his daughter Anastasia, were shot to death in a cellar in Eastern Russia in 1918 and buried nearby in a mass grave.  Almost immediately, rumors began that at least one of the four daughters had survived, and several young women turned up professing to be Anastasia.  The play Anastasia (filmed in 1956 with Ingrid Bergman) is based on that fact.  However, in recent years the bodies of all the Czar's family have been found and more or less identified through DNA testing.  (I say more or less because the tests may not be able to show which daughter is which--only that all four are members of the Czar's family.)  This site will tell you  much more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duche...

Answer 3

Anastasia was a Romanov (daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra). The Romanovs were executed by the Bolsheviks. Anastasia's body was not found with the others, so various theories arose. Her body was found very recently, so the theories were proven wrong.

A woman named Anna Anderson also claimed to be her. This was disproven using DNA evidence.

Answer 4

I'll tell you one version, that princess Anastasia and her brother (tsarevich Aleksey) were saved in Bulgaria.

There were also reports from Bulgaria of the survival of Anastasia and her younger brother Tsarevich Alexei. In 1953, Peter Zamiatkin, who was reportedly a member of the guard of the Russian Imperial Family, told a 16-year-old fellow hospital patient that he had taken Anastasia and Alexei to his birth village near Odessa at the request of the Tsar. After the assassination of the rest of the royal family, Zamiatkin reportedly escaped with the children via ship, sailing from Odessa to Alexandria. The alleged survivors, "Anastasia" and "Alexei," reportedly lived out their lives under assumed names in the Bulgarian town of Gabarevo near Kazanlak. The Bulgarian Anastasia claimant called herself Eleonora Albertovna Kruger and died in 1954.[57]