Russian: Великая Княжна Анастасия Николаевна ) (June 18, 1901 - July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra. She carried the name of the Tsaritsa Anastasia that married Tsar Ivan the Terrible. She was said to have been sometimes cruelly good at impersonations and to possess a sharp sarcastic wit. She also suffered from the medical condition hallux valgus, which affected the joints of her two big toes.
She was assassinated along with the rest of her family in the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. Although rumors of her survival had persisted for several decades, DNA testing in 1994 on the bodies executed in Ekaterinburg have established that they were indeed the Romanovs, although two bodies _ those of Alexei and one of the daughters (variously said to be Anastasia, Tatiana or Maria) _ were missing, likely because they had been cremated.
She has been impersonated on several occasions. The two most famous instances were an American woman named Eugenia Smith and a woman calling herself "Anna Anderson."
The possible survival of Anastasia has also been the subject of several films. Although the earliest such film was made in 1928 and the most recent a fictionalized 1997animated musical version, the most famous is probably the 1956Anastasia starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes.
Anastasia's diary describes the family's ornate palaces, expensive jewels, and life of great privilege juxtaposed against the increasing discontent among the Russian people as "Bloody Nicholas" and "the German woman" (Anastasia's parents) rule a land drawn into a war where Russian casualties are great and hunger and deprivation engulf the country.
Twelve-year-old AnastasiaRomanov, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexander of Russia, lives in a palace of over one hundred rooms, surrounded by servants, rich food, jewels, and an endless number of elegant dresses.
Anastasia and her sister and brother were Russian born and probably used only the Julian calendar, but Mama was from Germany, which had switched over to the Gregorian calendar, and she adopted the habit of using both dates in her diary.
AnastasiaRomanov, daughter of Nicholas II (last czar of Russia), was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 along with the rest of her family.
During the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Czar Nicholas Romanov II was overthrown and exiled to the town of Ekaterinburg.
To prove relationship with the Romanov family, the DNA extracted and amplified by polymerase chain reaction, was compared to a blood sample provided by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elisabeth the second of England, and a grand nephew of the tsarina.
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