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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастасия Николаевна Романова, romanized: Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova; 18 June [O.S. 5 June] 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Anna Anderson (born Franziska Schanzkowska; 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984) was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. [1] 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 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but the location of ...
King George V, who was her first cousin, allowed her to settle in Frogmore Cottage, a grace and favour house, in Home Park, Windsor, [34] for which she was grateful. [34] Later she had to deal with the fraudulent claims of Anna Anderson to be her niece, the murdered Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. [35]
Princess Xenia in 1915. Xenia and her older sister Princess Nina Georgievna, who was born in 1901, left Russia in 1914 to spend the war years in England with their mother. In 1919, her father, his brother Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, and their cousins Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich, were executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in St. Petersburg.
Anatoly Ionov claims to be Anastasia's son. Suzanna Catharina de Graaff was a Dutch woman who claimed to be the fifth daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra, born in 1903 when Alexandra was reported to have had a "hysterical pregnancy". [13] There are no official or private records of Alexandra giving birth to any child at this time.
Grand Duchess Maria and Anastasia pose with wounded soldiers while visiting the hospital located into the Feodorovsky Gorodok village, 1915. All the four OTMA sisters served there daily during the war. During the war, Maria and Anastasia also paid a visit to a nurses' school and helped to tend to the children.
The family fortunes soared when Roman's daughter, Anastasia Zakharyina, married Ivan IV ("the Terrible") on 3 (13) February 1547. [7] Since her husband had assumed the title of Tsar of all Russia, which derives from the title "Caesar", on 16 January 1547, she was crowned as the first tsaritsa of Russia. Her mysterious death in 1560 changed Ivan ...
Alexandra Anastasia Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn known as 'Sacha' and was god-daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten (27 February 1946 – 9 December 2018) Nicholas Harold Phillips (23 August 1947 – 1 March 1991) Fiona Mercedes Burnett (born 30 March 1951), mother of Alexander Burnett; Marita Georgina Crawley (born 28 May 1954)