The Vanishing of Anastasia Romanov

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Anastasia Romanov did not vanish or assume a new identity; her remains were discovered in 1991.

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Whether it's Elvis Presley, Tupac Shakur, or Andy Kaufman, people love to speculate that a famous star who died - especially at a young age - may still be alive someplace. It's implausible that the world's most famous individuals would suddenly decide to live anonymously and then successfully pull it off for decades - yet for believers, believing in such a notion is simpler than accepting that their favorite star has died. Princess Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Russia's murdered Czar Nicholas II, was one of the first subjects of these hypotheses.

In Anastasia's case, the circumstances surrounding her death and its aftermath aided in the propagation of these stories. When the Bolshevik Revolution overthrew the czarist regime on March 15, 1917, the Romanovs (including Anastasia) were kidnapped, taken to a secluded site in the Ural Mountains, and killed. The executioners provided contradictory and muddled versions of what occurred in that mansion, but more significantly, the Romanovs' bodies were lost for decades. The lack of concrete evidence of their demise allowed stories to spread. Several others claimed to be long-lost heirs to the Romanov estate in the years thereafter, and one lady claimed to be Anastasia herself, lending credibility to these ideas. In 1920, a Polish German lady called Franziska Schanzkowska informed the German press that she was the ill-fated princess, and she campaigned for years for formal recognition. Schanzkowska later relocated to the United States, where she became known as Anna Anderson. She insisted on becoming Anastasia till her death in 1984.

However, because of DNA, that is one idea that can be scientifically tested. The bones of the Romanovs were unearthed in 1979, and they were eventually examined after the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. The examinations established that the five bodies belonged to Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and three of their daughters, Anastasia, Olga, and Tatiana. For good measure, experts examined Anderson's DNA in 1994 and determined she was not a Romanov.

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SOURCE: Ranker

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