By RYAN GORMAN Stunning images of the Russian imperial family have emerged nearly 100 years to the date they were taken. The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before ...

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 ...

The slaughter of the Romanov family ... standing together almost as if they were posing for a family portrait ... And after 1918 more than 100 imposters claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia.

Perhaps the most famous figure associated with the Romanovs and their dramatic downfall wasn't a member of the royal family himself. Debauched and devoted, openly despised yet politically powerful ...

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.

Instead, Smith is considered to be one of several Romanov impersonators who claimed to be Anastasia in the decades following the royal family’s execution, capitalizing on rampant speculation at ...

According to history, the Russian Imperial Romanov family, who had living relations with the late Prince Philip were all shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries on the night of ...

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 ...