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# Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
An official portrait of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, ca. August 1916.
Born | June 18, 1901 Peterhof, Russia
Died | July 17, 1918 Yekaterinburg, Russia

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. She was born on June 18, 1901. The Tsar was unhappy when she was born because he wanted a son so that his son could become the next tsar of Russia, but everyone soon found that Anastatia could cheer everyone up. Her friends said Anastasia liked to tell jokes and was very funny.

Her family was murdered by Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918 during the Russian Revolution. Some people think Anastasia was saved. People said that Russian soldiers looked for Anastasia after the rest of her family was murdered. The family's grave was found in 1991 in Siberia. Two bodies are missing from the family's grave. The missing bodies are her brother Tsarevich Alexei of Russia and Anastasia or her sister Maria. Scientists think that her other sisters, Olga and Tatiana, were in the grave. They think the bodies of the three young women in the grave were too tall and too old to belong to Anastasia. Anastasia was shorter than her three sisters. She was seventeen when the family was murdered.

Several women later said they were Anastasia. More people believed Anna Anderson was Anastasia than any of the other women who said they were the grand duchess. Some people said Anna Anderson looked like Anastasia and acted like her. DNA tests later proved she was not the grand duchess. Movies have been made and books have been written about the story of Anastasia.

The Tsar, the Tsarina, and three of their daughters were buried at St. Petersburg,Russia on July 17, 1998. Anastasia and her family were made passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.

## [edit] External links

- Anastasia: Myth or reality? The story of Anastasia
- www.livadia.org/ana Livadia.org
- The Murder of Russia's Imperial Family Nicolay Sokolov. Investigation of the murder of the Romanov Imperial Family in 1918, in Russian.
- FrozenTears.org A media presentation of the last Imperial family
- Anastasia Information A web site dealing with the controversy surrouding Anastasia's death.
- Could Anna Anderson be Anastasia? A web site with articles about Anastasia and her famous claimant, "Anna Anderson."
- The Glorification of the Royal Family
- Hemophilia A (Factor VIII Deficiency)
- The Search Foundation, an organization dedicated to searching for the remains of the two missing Romanov children.

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