Anastasia nikolaevna biography
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Anastasia Romanov
(1901-1918)
Who Was Anastasia Romanov?
On the night of July 16-17, 1918, Anastasia and her family were executed in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Speculation arose as to whether she and her brother, Alexei Nikolaevich, might have survived.
Anastasia nikolaevna biography
In 1991, a forensic study identified the bodies of her family members and servants, but not hers or Alexei's. A 2007 DNA test of a second grave identified her and her brother's bodies.
Early Life
Anastasia was born Anastasia Nikolaevna (or Anastasiya Nikolayevna) in Petrodvorets, Russia — a town near St.
Petersburg formerly called Peterhof — on June 18, 1901. Anastasia's mother was Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, also known as Alexandra Feodorovna, who became known as Empress Alexandra after her marriage. Her father, Nicholas II, was Russia's final tsar, and part of the Romanov dynasty that had ruled the country for three centuries.
Anastasia's parents married in late 1894, shortly after her grandfather, Tsar Alexander III, di