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*A man named [[Anatoly Ionov (Romanov claimant)|Anatoly Ionov]] claims to be Anastasia's son. |
*A man named [[Anatoly Ionov (Romanov claimant)|Anatoly Ionov]] claims to be Anastasia's son. |
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Several men who claimed to be [[Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia]]. |
Several men who claimed to be [[Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia]]. |
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* [[Heino Temmet]] died in 1977 in Toronto, Canada. |
* [[Heino Temmet]] died in 1977 in Toronto, Canada. |
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Revision as of 16:22, 11 July 2007
A number of people have claimed to be members of the Imperial Russian family that was, by most accounts, killed by Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg, Russia on July 17, 1918.
Remains were found in the forest outside Ekaterinburg in 1991 that have been identified through DNA testing as the Romanovs and their servants. The Romanovs were later buried in St. Petersburg in 1998 and have been declared passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church. However, two sets of remains were missing from the mass grave. Scientists identified the missing family members as Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, who was a few weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday at the time of the mass killing, and either Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia or Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, who were seventeen and nineteen respectively at the time of the killings. The report of two missing bodies continues to fuel speculation that one or more members of the family could have survived. Anastasia's survival stories had always been the most famous, inspiring dozens of books and films.[1]
Anastasia claimants
Some of the people who have claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia are:
- Anna Anderson, by far the most famous claimant, appeared in 1920 in Berlin, Germany and died in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1984;
- Eugenia Smith, appeared in Chicago in 1963 and died there in 1997.
- Eleonora Kruger, died in a Bulgarian village;
- Natalya Petrovna Bilikhodze, appeared in 1995 and went to Russia in 2002 to "claim the Romanov fortune."
- Nadezhda Vasilyeva, appeared in the 1930's in Russia and died there in a Kazan mental ward in 1971.[2]
- A man named Anatoly Ionov claims to be Anastasia's son.
Alexei claimants
Several men who claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia.
- Heino Temmet died in 1977 in Toronto, Canada.
- Michael Goleniewski, a CIA agent who in 1959 claimed to be the Tsarevich.
- Others were Alexei Poutziato, Joseph Veres, and Vassili Felatov. Author Michael Gray claimed in his book Blood Relative that the Tsarevich escaped with the Dowager Empress aboard the warship HMS Marlborough in 1919 and later assumed the name Nikolai Chebotarev. In the book, Gray claims he is the illegitimate son of the Tsarevich and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.[3]
Olga, Tatiana and Maria claimants
- Marga Boodts claimed to be the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia.
- Others have claimed that Larissa Tudor might have been Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.[4]
- It has been claimed that a woman named Granny Alena might have been Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia.
- A man named Alexis Brimeyer claimed to be Maria's grandson.[5]