Eugenia Smetisko, who lived in Newport from 1971 to her death in 1997, claimed to be the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, seen in the portrait at right. Little has been recorded about ...

I’ve been fascinated by the Romanovs for decades hoping that perhaps, just perhaps … Anastasia had somehow escaped. Unfortunately, new research published in PLoS ONE finally provides grim evidence of ...

Anastasia and her family were shot on the morning of July 17, 1918. ... Natalya Belikhodze, a Georgian woman who “revealed” herself to be Anastasia Romanov in 1995.

When the Russian Royal Family was assassinated in 1918, rumors swirled that a daughter, Anastasia, had secretly escaped. We are still obsessing over her story a century later.

The Romanov family was executed by the Bolsheviks late in the night on July 16, 1918. The family was ordered to dress quickly and go down to the cellar of the house in which they were staying ...

The mystery and myth surrounding the life (and death) of Anastasia Romanov sounds straight out of a movie, but, even still, the 1997 animated film decided to take creative liberties with her story.

Rumours that Anastasia had managed to escape her family’s execution were prevalent in the 20th century after the remains of the Romanov family concluded that Nicholas, Alexandra and three of ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia ...

Did you watch the 1997 classic “Anastasia” as a kid? We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares.