Who was the grand duchess Anastasia?

Answer 1

The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia was the fourth daughter of Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra. She became famous after supposedly surviving the massacre of her family. Many people in the 1920's and 30's pretended to be her, and a few were even buried under her name. The most famous imposter was Anna Anderson, a German woman with a record of mental illness. Her story inspired many stories and movies, which made the name Anastasia even more famous. In the 1990's after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Romanov bodies were found in an unmarked mass grave, but her body was not in it. which lead many people to believe that Anderson had in fact been Anastasia. However, a few years later, her body was found a few miles away. She was laid to rest beside her family and eventually she was declared a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. Anastasia was considered to be one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th Century, and to this day, she tends to be the most famous member of her family, even more famous than her father, Tsar Nicholas, despite not appearing in most text books.