I believe she was an imposter.
a polish factory worker named Franziska Schanzkowska who used the name anna anderson when she claimed to be Anastasia Romanov.
Anna Anderson is best known as being an imposter who claimed that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. There were others that professed to be the Grand Duchess as well but Anna Anderson was the best known imposter.
The remains of Anastasia Romanov were discovered in a mass grave in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 1991. She, along with her family, was originally buried in a forest near Yekaterinburg after being executed in 1918. However, their remains were later exhumed and reburied in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1998.
She claimed she was Anastasia, but DNA samples indicated that she was not.
No one really knows. People who knew Anastasia thought that Anna Anderson was Anastasia because she knew little things about Anastasia's life that someone who was not Anastasia would not know. However in one book it has been theorized that Gleb Blotkin (the son of the Romanov's doctor who was killed with them, childhood playmate of the real Anastasia and chapion of Anna Anderson) fed her information that she needed to fool people.
Franziska Schanzkowska: 12/16/1896-around 1984 Anastasia Romanov: 1901-1918
Anna Anderson was not Anastasia
Her body was never positively identified. the living Anastasia ( or Anna Anderson) had traces of Stab wounds from bayonet- equipped NKVD men. These were in the legs.
No the reall Anastasia didn.t she was killed during the revolution when she was 17 Her most famous claimant, Anna Anderson, by pretending to be their dead relative. hurt Anastasia's memory and wronged the family
4 years after the Romanov's executions, Anna Anderson claimed she was the missing Grand Duchess, Anastasia. it was after she attempted to commit suicide by jumping of a bridge these claims surfaced.
Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, was rumored to have escaped the assassination of her family in 1918, though there is no definitive evidence to support this claim. After the Bolsheviks executed the Romanov family, various individuals claimed to be Anastasia, leading to speculation about her survival. The most famous of these claimants was Anna Anderson, who spent decades maintaining that she was the lost princess. In 2007, DNA testing confirmed that the remains of the Romanov family, including Anastasia, had been found, effectively debunking the escape theory.
Mystery Hunters - 2002 Princess Anastasia Anna Anderson was released on: USA: 16 October 2005