Quick Facts About Anastasia
Full name: Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova)
Born: June 18, 1901
Thought to be date of death: July 17, 1918
Age at (thought to be) time of death: 17, 21 days
Parents: Tsar Nicholas || of Russia
Alexandra Fyodorovna
Siblings: Grand Duchess Olga
Grand Duchess Tatiana
Grand Duchess Maria
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
Born: June 18, 1901
Thought to be date of death: July 17, 1918
Age at (thought to be) time of death: 17, 21 days
Parents: Tsar Nicholas || of Russia
Alexandra Fyodorovna
Siblings: Grand Duchess Olga
Grand Duchess Tatiana
Grand Duchess Maria
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
Anastasia was a Romanov, youngest daughter to the Tsar or Russia, Nicholas ||.
She is said to have been a happy, adventurous child, who loved to spend time with her family and is supposed to have loved roller skating.
As a child, Anastasia was rather short and slightly chubby (something that disappeared as she grew older).
Anastasia had big blue eyes, with strawberry-blonde hair.
A misheif maker, the Grand Duchess was witty, a good actress and a bit of a trouble maker.
Sadly, Anastasia was prone to bad health, having hallux valgus (bunions) on both of her big toes, as well as a weak muscle in her back, for which she was subscribed two massages a week (she hated massages, and is said to have hidden under her bed so that she could avoid them!).
In 1917, when her father abdicated the throne, Anastasia and her family were moved to a safe house, where the four Romanov girls started to sew their jewels into their dresses so that no one could steal them.
This later helped deflect some of the bullets that would have killed the sisters during their assassination.
Even during the last few months of her life, in the safe house, Anastasia staged plays and comedy shows for her family, as well as telling jokes to the soldiers that looked after her.
She is said to have been a happy, adventurous child, who loved to spend time with her family and is supposed to have loved roller skating.
As a child, Anastasia was rather short and slightly chubby (something that disappeared as she grew older).
Anastasia had big blue eyes, with strawberry-blonde hair.
A misheif maker, the Grand Duchess was witty, a good actress and a bit of a trouble maker.
Sadly, Anastasia was prone to bad health, having hallux valgus (bunions) on both of her big toes, as well as a weak muscle in her back, for which she was subscribed two massages a week (she hated massages, and is said to have hidden under her bed so that she could avoid them!).
In 1917, when her father abdicated the throne, Anastasia and her family were moved to a safe house, where the four Romanov girls started to sew their jewels into their dresses so that no one could steal them.
This later helped deflect some of the bullets that would have killed the sisters during their assassination.
Even during the last few months of her life, in the safe house, Anastasia staged plays and comedy shows for her family, as well as telling jokes to the soldiers that looked after her.
Assassination
In the early hours of July 17, 1918, the Romanov family were told that they were leaving the house, and were assembled in a room with two chairs and no windows.
It was in that very room that the family was shot by Bolshevik secret police, under the orders of Yavok Yurovsky.
It was in that very room that the family was shot by Bolshevik secret police, under the orders of Yavok Yurovsky.
Did Anastasia really die in that room?
Even though it is most likely that Anastasia died with her family in that room, there were some eye-witness accounts of Anastasia and her little brother walking around a nearby village after the day of the shootings.
Some say that the secret police finally caught up with them and killed them, before alerting Russia to the fact that the Romanov family were dead.
No matter how it happened, we can be certain now that Anastasia (along with her little brother, Alexei) most certainly died.
Some say that the secret police finally caught up with them and killed them, before alerting Russia to the fact that the Romanov family were dead.
No matter how it happened, we can be certain now that Anastasia (along with her little brother, Alexei) most certainly died.
