Anna Anderson Assassination

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She did not see it coming. None of them did. The last thing she saw was a gun barrel aimed straight at her. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova was one of five children to the Russian Czar Nicholas II who ruled over Russia. She lived with her mother, the Czarina Alexandra, younger brother: crown prince Alexei, and three older sisters: Olga, Tatiana, and Maria. They lived comfortably until World War I lead to a revolution and their untimely execution. After Anastasia was executed with her family, rumors circulated saying that she escaped and people were quick to claim her identity, but DNA testing insists that she perished that fateful night. The Bolshevik overthrow of the Romanov family line in Imperial Russia during World War I is …show more content…

She first surfaced when a police officer pulled a young woman out of a Berlin canal after a suicide attempt. She was later sent to a mental institution where she would later claim to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia (Cohen 85-86). The woman, later known as Anna Anderson, would begin a long journey of true or false identity. Of the many Romanov relatives and acquaintances that would come to see this could-be Anastasia, a handful would confirm her claim. Gleb Botkin, son of the executed Romanov family physician that, was certain that Anderson was "the Grand Duchess Anastasia with whom he had played as a child" (“February 06, 1928"). Furthermore, when Gleb Botkin was coming to meet Anderson, she had asked if he would bring his "funny animals." This was because Botkin would draw animals for the children when they were younger: a small fact only Anastasia would know (McGuire 48). A Romanow relative that believed Anderson’s claims was a cousin of Anastasia that was convinced of her identity when she answered set of questions only the real Anastasia would know (Great Mysteries 93). Anderson, also, went through an examination of a few of her characteristics compared to Anastasia’s. Dr. Minna Becker, verifier of Anne Frank’s Diary, compared Anderson and Anastasia’s writing and concluded …show more content…

The lack of bodies after the execution caused many people to question whether or not they died. Consequently people even started to claim to be a surviving member of the family, but the most justifiable of these people was Anna Anderson who claimed to be the lost Anastasia. The more credible theory, that she died at the hands of the Bolsheviks, was concluded through meticulous genetic testing. Based off of scientific evidence it can be seen the more credible theory is that the entire imperial family including Anastasia was silenced forever by the Bolsheviks. While the truth about Anastasia’s fate has been wrapped up, people still love watching the movies that depict romanticized versions of her life if she had survived that fateful

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