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A 9 page paper on the woman who claimed she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and thus the only survivor of the Russian Imperial Family to survive the Russian Revolution. The writer compares different stories about Anastasia and attempts to reconcile fact from fiction in an effort to determine whether or not Anna Anderson was truly the Grand Duchess. Forensic / D.N.A.-related evidence is presented and the writer ultimately describes how science unraveled the mystery years later and discovered that Anderson was not who she claimed to be. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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rescue the imperial family, but it was too late: in the basement they found copious amounts of blood, smashed jewelry, and even an occasional body part. There were no identifiable
bodies, but it was clear that a terrible massacre had taken place, and it seemed obvious that Czar Nicholas and his entire family had died at the hands of the
Bolsheviks.1 But had they? All of them? Nineteen months after the massacre, a young woman attempted to commit suicide in Berlin by jumping into a canal. When she was
rescued, she refused to identify herself and was eventually transferred to a public mental asylum. There, she was called Miss Unknown (Fra?lein Unbekannt). Her accent was clearly Russian. After some
two years in the asylum, one of the other inmates, Clara Peuthert, came out with a startling pronouncement: Miss Unknown was none other than the Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia;
she had recognized her from a photo in a magazine. Such announcements being quite frequent in mental asylums, no one paid much attention to it. 2 When Clara was released,
however, she spread the story among Russian emigr?s in Germany, and some of those emigr?s came to the asylum to see for themselves. Their favorable impressions led to Anastasias aunt,
the Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, being invited to see the patient. The Grand Duchess pulled the bedsheet off the patient and said there was no way this was _____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Transcript
of NOVA (PBS). Anastasia: Dead or Alive?, written by Michael Barnes; pp.1 2. Kurth, Peter. Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson, Boston: Little, Brown, 1983; pp. 78 _____________________________________________________________________________ Tatiana;
she was too short. This would seem to have put an end to the matter 3. But shortly thereafter, the patient herself finally spoke out. No, she wasnt
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