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Anna Anderson

Anastasia Manahan (her official name in later life), usually known as Anna Anderson (circa 1900 - February 4, 1984) was the best known of several women who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra. She likely believed the claim herself. Anastasia was born on June 18, 1901 and was presumed executed with her family on July 17, 1918. Others have identified Anna as Franziska Schanzkowska (born December 16, 1896- disappeared 1920). Both identifications are controversial. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Jump to: navigation, search February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search This page is about the year 1984. ... Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (1901-1918) Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, in Russian: Великая Княжна Анастасия Николаевна ) (June 18, 1901 – July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia Nicholas II of Russia ( 18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last crowned Emperor of Russia. ... Princess Alix of Hesse, as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (1872-1918) Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice, 6 June 1872 - 17 July 1918), was the consort of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Tsar of Russia. ... Jump to: navigation, search June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...

Appearance

She was first discovered after having attempted suicide in the Spree River in Berlin in 1920, and was a patient in a mental hospital under the name Fräulein Unbekannt (Miss Unknown) for two years before claiming to be the Grand Duchess after several patients and staff at the hospital noted a resemblance. Some people, including a few relatives and close acquaintances of the Imperial family, were convinced that she was indeed Anastasia. River Spree in Berlin at the eastern harbour (Osthafen) with the Badeschiff bath The Spree (Slavic Špreva) is a river in Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... In German, Fräulein (literally, little woman or little Mrs. ...

Miss Unknown, who called herself Anna Tschaikovsky (Tchaikovski?), claimed to have been rescued from the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg where the Imperial family was murdered, by a Russian Polish soldier named Alexander Tschaikovsky, whom she had later married and moved with to Bucharest, where he was killed in a street brawl. There is no evidence for the existence of this Tschaikovsky. Anderson also claimed that she had a child with Tschaikovsky but gave him to an orphanage. It was in the Ipatiev House that former tsar Nicholas II, his wife Aleksandra, their four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, Tsarevich Alexei, and their faithful Doctor, lady-in-waiting, cook and footman were executed. ... Photograph of snow-covered Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburgs Church on the Blood built on the spot where the Tsar and his family were executed. ... The Dâmboviţa River in central Bucharest Along a small tributary of Dâmboviţa, named Colentina, several lakes stretch across the city, the most important being Lake Floreasca, Lake Tei and Lake Colentina. ...

Disputed identification

In 1925, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, Anastasia's aunt, who had survived the Revolution and settled in Denmark, came to Berlin to meet Tschaikovsky, who was now going by the name Anna Anderson. Olga declared that Anna Anderson was not her niece, Grand Duchess Anastasia, saying that she was "not who she believes she is." Other people, like Anastasia's childhood nurse Alexandra Gillard or Empress Alexandra's close friend Lili Dehn, identified her as Anastasia. Jump to: navigation, search 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, Ольга Александровна Романова ) (June 13, 1882 - November 24, 1960) was a Grand Duchess of Russia and the younger sister of Russian Tsar Nikolai II. Born on June 13, 1882 in Alexandria Palace, Peterhof, Russia, she was the youngest daughter of Tsar... Jump to: navigation, search Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ...

At around the same time, Anastasia's uncle, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (Alexandra's brother) hired private investigators to discover her real identity. They suggested that she was in fact Franziska Schanzkowska, an ethnic Polish Pomeranian factory worker in Berlin, who had disappeared at around the same time that Fräulein Unbekannt was discovered. Schanzkowska had multiple scars due to an explosion accident in a hand grenade factory during World War I, which was consistent with Anderson's scars on her body. But Anderson claimed that they were from the execution that she barely escaped. Jump to: navigation, search Ernst Ludwig v. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of...

In 1938, Anderson initiated a suit in German courts to claim an inheritance and prove that she was Anastasia. The case dragged out until 1970, when the court determined that she had not proved herself to be the Grand Duchess. Jump to: navigation, search 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Her critics pointed out that she was unable to speak Russian, although she was able to understand the writings. She defended this by saying that she was unwilling to use the language spoken by the people who murdered her family.

Marriage and death

After moving to the United States, Anderson lived for several years at Long Island with Princess Xenia, a daughter of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Princess Maria Georgievna of Greece. In 1968, Anderson married wealthy American supporter John Manahan. He was 49 and she was around 70. They lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she died of pneumonia in 1984. Her body was cremated in accordance to her wishes. They had no children. Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Grand Duke Yurij Mikhailovich of Russia. ... Maria Georgievna, Princess of Greece and Denmark (March 3, 1876-December 14), 1940), was the fifth child and second daughter of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia and thus a family member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Founded Incorporated 1762   County Independent City Mayor David Brown Area  - Total  - Water 177. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pneumonia fills the lungs alveoli with fluid, keeping oxygen from reaching the bloodstream. ... Jump to: navigation, search This page is about the year 1984. ...

DNA tests

In 1991, the bodies of the royal family were exhumed, and it was discovered that Alexei and one of the daughters was missing. DNA testing was done to make sure that the remains were actually those of the imperial family, but also to compare Anderson's DNA and see if it matched. The mitochondrial DNA of the bodies presumed to be those of Alexandra and three of her daughters were compared to those of the Duke of Edinburgh, whose maternal grandmother Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine was a sister of Alexandra. This proved to be a match. Jump to: navigation, search 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tsarevich Alexei (1904-1918) Tsesarevich (Tsarevich) Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia (In Russian Царевич Алексей Николаевич) (August 12, 1904 - July 17, 1918), of the House of Romanov, was a Tsarevich of Russia and was the youngest child of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse. ... Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA, or less popularly, mDNA) is DNA which is not located in the nucleus of the cell but in the mitochondria. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Duke of Edinburgh The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO, PC, (Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark) (born 10 June 1921) is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ... HGDH Princess Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (5 April 1863-24 September 1950) was the daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892) and his wife Alice, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland (1843-1878). ...

Anderson's DNA, however, did not match either that of the Romanov remains or of the Duke of Edinburgh, making it practically impossible that she was, in fact, Anastasia. Another DNA test, comparing her DNA to that of Carl Maucher, a great nephew of the missing Franziska Schanzkowska, was a match, making the identification originally made in the 1920s a likely one. Jump to: navigation, search Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ...

Anna's DNA was taken from tissue obtained during a 1979 operation Anna had undergone at the Martha Jefferson Hospital of Charlottesville for intestinal blockage. About one foot of her intestines had been removed, and about five inches of it, preserved in formalin, remained in the hospital's pathology department from that time. It was obtained by the testers following a long and complicated court battle. Jump to: navigation, search This page refers to the year 1979. ... Categories: Hospitals in the United States | Stub ... Charlottesville is an independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the state of Virginia. ...

Later, some hair samples were found in an envelope marked "Anna Anderson" amongst some books that had belonged to her. These hairs were likewise subjected to DNA tests and found to be identical to that of the tissue sample. DNA tests tell us nothing about "Franziska Schanzkowska.”

Anderson biographer Peter Kurth has countered the DNA findings with: 'They don't explain how she spoke "more English than German" already in the early 1920s [28], or how she arrived in America in 1928 speaking fluent English, having had only the most rudimentary "lessons" in the form of Mother Goose rhymes. [29] They don't explain her intimate acquaintance with the history, customs and lore of the Romanov family and every royal house of Europe; how she could deal with hotel staff in French [30]; play the piano with or without sheet music; walk, sit, stand or offer her hand in exactly the home-trained manner [31]; how she recognized members of the Romanov family just by the sound of their voices [32]; "walked through the garden calling the flowers by their quaint Russian names," etc. [33].'

Supporters continue to dispute all of these findings, and many still believe that she was, in fact, the Grand Duchess. According to their arguments Schanzkowska's relatives were paid to say she was Franziska Schanzkowska. They also claim that Schankowska went missing in March, 1920 while Anderson was already in the hospital in February. Some of them also argue that mitochondria DNA that was used was not from Anderson's maternal relative, because they believed that she was a half-sister of her brothers. Jump to: navigation, search March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

References

• Anastasia: The Life of Anna Anderson, Peter Kurth, Pimlico, 1995. [ISBN 0712659544]
• Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson, Peter Kurth, Back Bay Books, 1997? [ISBN 0316507172]
• Anastasia: The Lost Princess, James Blair Lovell, Robson Books, 1998. [ISBN 0860518078]
• The Quest for Anastasia: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Romanovs, John Klier and Helen Mingay, Citadel Press, 1999. [ISBN 0806520647]

External links

• Article by Peter Kurth - Anna Anderson's biographer takes a closer look at the 1994 DNA results.
• Article by Rey Barry - Supporting article by journalist Rey Barry - friend of Anna Anderson and Jack Manahan.
• Anastasia: Duchess in Disguise - Comparative photographs from HIH Grand Duchess Anastasia Historical Society.
• Article by John Godl - Explaining how Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, was identified as being Franziska Schanzkowska.