What is the story behind Anastasia Romanova's death?

Question

What is the story behind Anastasia Romanova's death?

Answer 1

She died during a revolution in Russia.

Answer 2

She was killed along with the rest of her family in 1918,but her remains and the remains of another sibling were not identified right away.

Many women claimed to have memories of the Russian royal family's life,memories that only some one very close to the family would had. One woman, Anna Anderson,was convinced that she was Anastasia.Survivors of the royals said that she was not.

About a year or so, ago,partial remains were discovered not to be parts of the other remains.Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,a descendant of the Russian royal family,submitted his DNA for comparison. All of the remains were linked to  the royals.Soon,we'll know exactly whose remains are there. Here's the Associated Press newsreport:

"DNA Tests May Solve Mystery of Anastasia

By STEPHANIE REITZ – Apr 3, 2008

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Answers to the mystery of what befell the heirs of the last czar of Russia nearly a century ago may rest behind locked laboratory doors in Moscow and New England.

DNA test results to be announced within months on bone fragments found in Russia last year could prove that none of Czar Nicholas II's family escaped execution in the Bolshevik Revolution — not even Anastasia, the teenage princess whose identity various women have claimed over the decades.

Evgeny Rogaev, who heads a genetic research team working in Moscow and at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, is not immune to the effect his work could have on how his fellow Russian citizens view that turbulent chapter in their history.

He keeps pictures of the royal family carefully tucked inside a folder near charts of DNA sequences, but does not display them. Likewise, he shields any sight of the remains from everyone except the other researchers, out of respect for whomever the remains represent.

"Murders occurred. Children were murdered," he said this week, choosing his words carefully. "I will not make a show of it. That is my ethics."

For Rogaev, a professor at UMass and Moscow State University, ensuring the accuracy of the DNA tests is paramount.

"In an expert work, it cannot be about emotions. It must be about collection of scientific evidences, and that is why this DNA is so powerful to study," he said.

Rogaev is reviewing the genetic material at the request of the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office as part of its reopened investigation of the deaths of the royal family.

Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, the prince's four older sisters and their four attendants were taken prisoner in 1917. Even though the czar already had abdicated his throne, their captors fatally shot all the prisoners on July 17, 1918, in a basement room of a house in the city of Yekaterinburg.

DNA testing determined skeletal remains unearthed from shallow graves in a nearby mining pit in 1991 were most likely those of the couple and three of their four daughters.

The daughters were believed to be 22-year-old Olga, 21-year-old Tatiana and 17-year-old Anastasia, although some people speculate the last set of remains belonged to the similarly sized 19-year-old Maria.

Researchers suspect the bone shards discovered last summer, burned and doused with acid, are those of Alexei and Maria. They were found in the area where one of the professed killers said their bodies had been destroyed.

The remains found in 1991 were reburied with honors in 1998 in the imperial-era capital of St. Petersburg. It was shadowed by doubts at the time, including from the Russian Orthodox Church and some Romanov relatives, over the authenticity of the genetic results.

Nevertheless, the church canonized the royal family in 2000.

Rogaev, who was called to help verify the remains' authenticity in 1997 and 1998, said he knows many people with opinions on both sides. He compares it to the emotions that Americans have about their legendary public figures and families, such as the Kennedys, and says the DNA tests are the best way to be certain about the Romanovs' fate.

"In science, what you conclude to be true comes from the results you find. When I see the results, I accept the results as the fact," he said.

No clear explanation exists about why the suspected remains of the prince and one of his sisters were destroyed with more violence than those of the czar, empress and three of their daughters.

Some researchers think that after shooting the family, the killers tried to destroy as much of their remains as possible, but ran out of time after starting to destroy two of the smallest bodies with fire and sulfuric acid. Some have said the killers thought monarchists might try to memorialize the burial place as a shrine if the bodies' locations were known.

The bone fragments were so badly damaged that Rogaev and other researchers first had to determine whether enough uncontaminated genetic material still existed for testing.

The delicate work proved that, indeed, useful DNA could be extracted from a very small amount of the material — a critical fact, since they wanted to preserve as much of the bone fragments as possible out of respect for the victims.

The researchers are comparing DNA from the recently discovered remains with those of Empress Alexandra, who was a granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria and a distant relative of Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. The prince, whose DNA might offer important points of reference for comparison, has not provided DNA so far, but researchers are reviewing published information related to the family, Evgeny said.

Renowned forensic scientist Henry Lee endorsed Rogaev's approach and called the case a prime example of science settling questions about the past.

"It's an interesting project, and DNA is opening up a lot of new frontiers in solving crime and answering questions of history," said Lee, a former Connecticut public safety commissioner and founder of the forensic science program at the University of New Haven.

A representative of the Romanovs urged caution after the remains were found last summer. They have tried without success for years to persuade Russian authorities to declare Nicholas and his family victims of political repression.

"I will be deeply happy if the remains of (Alexei) and Maria have really been found," Nikolai Romanov, identified by Channel One as the head of the family, told the station by telephone from Switzerland. "But it is always necessary to treat such epochal events with caution." "

Answer 3

Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia was presumed to have been murdered with her family on July 17, 1918, by forces of the Bolshevik secret police. However, rumors have persisted of her possible escape since 1918, fueled by reports that two sets of remains, identified as Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and either Anastasia or her elder sister Maria, were missing from a mass grave found near Ekaterinburg and later identified through DNA testing as the Romanovs.

The missing Grand Duchess Anastasia mystery may be solved using DNA tests results, which is scheduled to be announced within months on bone fragments found in Russia last year. The tension is building up since this could prove that none of the Czar Nicholas II's family escaped execution in the Bolshevik Revolution — not even Anastasia, the teenage princess whose identity various women have claimed over the decades.

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DNA testing determined skeletal remains unearthed from shallow graves in a nearby mining pit in 1991 were most likely those of the couple and three of their four daughters.

The daughters were believed to be 22-year-old Olga, 21-year-old Tatiana and 17-year-old Anastasia, although some people speculate the last set of remains belonged to the similarly sized 19-year-old Maria.

Researchers suspect the bone shards discovered last summer, burned and doused with acid, are those of Alexei and Maria. They were found in the area where one of the professed killers said their bodies had been destroyed.

Answer 4

DNA proved that the imposter was not who she claimed to be.   Prince philip supplied the "matter".

Answer 5

She and her family were in their castle, there was a tragic fire killing everyone in her family...her body was never found, thus her death was never able to be proven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_R...

Answer 6

She was murdered with the rest of her immediate family and a couple of loyal servants by the Communists.

Answer 7

The story is that the immediate royal family (czar, czarina, prince & princesses) stayed in Russia with the imminent Bolshevik revolution.  Many royal relatives escaped before the revolution.

The family was collected, kept captive for some time, and ultimately executed.  It is believed that some of the ladies did not die immediately because they had sewn their jewels into their clothing and this protected them from the full force of the bullets.

Their remains were tossed into a shallow grave, but appear to have been moved more than once, and this led to speculation that one or more of the royal children could have survived the execution because all the remains had not been found when the royal family had a full funeral and were cannonized as saints in the 1990s.

Since then, remains have been found and are undergoing tests to determine if they are the remains of the missing Romanov family.

Some people have claimed to be Anastasia, so far no one has been proven to be her.

Answer 8

she was killed along with everyone else in her family, but because they could never prove the bones were hers, it was a rumor that she had escaped. Years later, some dumb brawd claimed to be her, but DNA proved she was a liar. Anastasia was killed in the revolution, end of story.

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