I followed the story of Anna Anderson for years. They was a youtube video about her. They found some of her dna from a surgery before he died and compared it to a Polish relative, and they matched. She was a missing Polish factory worker who turned up in Berlin.
Anna's story is compelling, too, but I never was quite convinced. Glad the whole matter can be laid to rest, and especially fitting that the family finally received a proper burial and are all together in death as they were so close in life.
Maybe Nicholas was inept (re another comment), but he loved his country and seemed like such a good husband and father to the very end.
Nope, not true. Anna Anderson or whatever she went by claimed to be Anastasia, but that was shown to be false — a posthumous DNA test verified that she was, as suspected, a mental mary from Austria or whatever, no connection whatsover to the Romanovs. It was an interesting story though. :’)
I've read several books about the family and read some on the internet after I got on in about 1997 but hadn't seen anything further for years now.
I think the last I had was a recording of the tv special Rasputin I either made or was made for me on VHS. I must have watched your movie at some point, but don't remember now.
I've been interested in Russia and Russian history and literature for some time now, made a lame attempt to learn the language from tapes, but it was difficult and having no one to practice with, gave it up, best I can do now is sound out words like a first-grader from what I remember from memorizing the alphabet.
No, DNA proved she wasn't Anastasia. National Geographic Channel had a special recently, "Finding Anastasia" and they found the remains of one of the daughters and Alexei (the bodies had been dismembered, sulphuric acid was poured on them to disfigure them, and the remains burned before burial). The DNA was tested using the remaining bones.
Every member of the family is now accounted for.