Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian:
Анастасия Николаевна Романова, romanized: Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova; 18
June [O.S. 5 June] 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar
Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina
Alexandra Feodorovna.
Anastasia was the younger sister of Grand Duchesses Olga,
Tatiana, and Maria, and was the elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich
of Russia. She was killed with her family by a group of Bolsheviks in
Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. Persistent rumors of her possible escape
circulated after her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial
was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. The abandoned mine serving as
a mass grave near Yekaterinburg which held the acidified remains of the Tsar,
his wife, and three of their daughters was revealed in 1991. These remains were
put to rest at Peter and Paul Fortress in 1998. The bodies of Alexei
Nikolaevich and the remaining daughter—either Anastasia or her older sister
Maria—were discovered in 2007. Her purported survival has been conclusively
disproven. Scientific analysis including DNA testing confirmed that the remains
are those of the imperial family, showing that all four grand duchesses were
killed in 1918.
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