Guide Note

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia. Recent evidence proves that she was executed along with the rest of her family by the Bolshevik Secret Police during the Russian Civil War that followed Nicholas' abdication.

Fast Facts

1. Born: June 18, 1901 in Peterhof, Russia
2. Father: Nicholas II of Russia
3. Mother: Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse
4. Died: July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg, Russia
5. Assassins burned the bodies so they would be difficult to identify
6. Anna Anderson spent her entire life claiming she was Duchess Anastasia

For years, various people surfaced and claimed to be Romanov survivors. In 1991, a grave was found containing bodies that were later proved to be the Romanovs, but the bodies of the only Romanov son and one of the daughters were missing. In late 2007, another grave was uncovered nearby that contained two bodies, which were later proved through DNA testing to belong to the missing Romanovs.