Anna Andres is a popular model and Miss Universe 2014. She was born on November 17 (according to the horoscope Scorpio) 1993 in Lviv (Ukraine). Her height is about 176 centimeters, and her weight reaches 56 kilograms.

Anna was born and raised in a fairly ordinary family in the beautiful city of Lviv. From an early age, the girl had a very attractive appearance and was quite a beautiful child. Anna did not immediately begin to dream of a career as a model, since there were many teenage stages through which she went through, however, like every child who, on the way to growing up, cannot decide for a long time on the type of her activity. Thus, after a certain period of time, Anna comes to the conclusion that she wants to enter the Academy of Commerce, which she ultimately does.

Model career

After a while, her victory follows and she receives the title of vice-miss of the 2010 Lviv beauty contest. After this, she becomes part of many model houses, and also begins her collaboration with American and European agencies. Many consider her a real role model, because she is simply beautiful and talented not only as a model, but also as an actress.

In 2014, the girl received the title “Miss Ukraine-Universe”. Realizing the influence she has among her fans, she repeatedly tells them that the most important thing is to love yourself and remain yourself, despite all the harshness of this sometimes unfair, but still beautiful world. She is extremely grateful to everyone for their support and she is extremely pleased with the fact that for some she is an idol and inspirer, a person who always motivates others to achieve some higher goals.

Relationship

Anna Andres for some period dated Maxim Chernyavsky, the ex-husband of Anna Sedokova, as well as a fairly successful businessman and participant in the second season of the Russian show “The Bachelor”. As Anna Andres herself said, the relationship was a little difficult, since they had to be away from each other for a long time. Maxim lived in Los Angeles, and Anna lived in Kyiv, and it was for this reason that they eventually had to break up, since they understood that a long-distance relationship was not a relationship at all.

But, despite the breakup, they still remained friends and support each other to this day. Whether Anna has a life partner is still unknown. But one thing is clear: such a beauty never goes unnoticed.

In the chapel, which is located in the Bavarian castle of Seeon, there is a very strange grave on which two names are immortalized at once: Anna Anderson and Anastasia Romanova. Why are there two women listed on the gravestone? And what does the daughter of the Russian emperor have to do with Anna Anderson?

In 1920, a policeman managed to save a girl from suicide. She wanted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the waters of the Landwehr. The man took the poor woman to the police station, but it was never possible to find out her identity, the woman had no documents, and she did not answer questions.

Anastasia Romanova

Based on the results of a medical examination, the girl was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where she remained for 18 months. She did not provide any information about herself and was registered as “Fräulein Unbekant” (“unknown”).

What connects this strange girl with the Romanovs? A copy of the Berliner Illustrated newspaper was brought into the room where Unbekant lay, which contained an article about the fate of the family of Emperor Nicholas II. Looking at the photo, the roommate was surprised at Anastasia Romanova’s resemblance to the unknown woman.

The girl responded to her remark: “Be silent!” However, after leaving the hospital, Unbekant began to call herself the daughter of the Russian emperor. What caused this behavior? Maybe the girl realized that there was no point in hiding, or decided to use the resemblance to the princess for her own benefit?

The story of Anna-Anastasia

From the hospital she moved to the house of Maria von Kleist. The Baroness visited the girl in the hospital, it was she who convinced the doctors to prescribe Unbekant, assuring her that she would provide her with proper care. It was the Baroness who gave the name Anna to this girl.

The world was told the following story. It turns out that Anna-Anastasia managed to miraculously escape death, but from shock the poor thing lost consciousness and woke up in the house of a soldier who managed to secretly pull her out of the basement. Then they helped her move to Romania. In Berlin, she wanted to find her own aunt, the sister of Empress Alexandra. However, relatives did not recognize the girl as their niece and condemned her for having an illegitimate son. It was this fact that served as the reason for suicide.

This story became public knowledge, and crowds of emigrants flocked to the baroness’s house. Some recognized her as Romanova, while others assured her that she was a mentally ill woman. Even Maria Feodorovna (mother of Nicholas II) sent valet Volkov to Berlin, who served the royal family for many years. However, Anastasia did not recognize Alexei Andreevich and could not tell him the details of her past life.

Since 1938, Anna Anderson began legal battles to restore her legal name and recognize her as the heir to the Russian throne. The investigations went on for decades; in 1961, a Hamburg court ruled that Anna Anderson had nothing in common with Anastasia Romanova.

In 1968, Anna got married and left for America. Last years She spent her life in Virginia and died in 1984.

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Anna Anderson

Anna Anderson (Tchaikovskaya, Manahan, Shantskovskaya) is the most famous of the women who posed as Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Let's try to figure out whether Anna Anderson was Princess Anastasia Romanova or is she just another swindler, an impostor, or just a sick person.

Unknown Russian, or Anastasia Romanova

The rumor that this woman, Grand Duchess Anastasia, excited the world after the Berlin police report on February 17, 1920 recorded a girl rescued from a suicide attempt. She had no documents with her and refused to give her name. She had light brown hair and piercing gray eyes. She spoke with a pronounced Slavic accent, so in her personal file there was an entry “unknown Russian”.

Since the spring of 1922, dozens of articles and books have been written about her. Anastasia Tchaikovskaya, Anna Anderson, later Anna Manahan (after her husband’s last name). These are the names of the same woman. Last name, written on her gravestone “Anastasia Manahan”. She died on February 12, 1984, but even after death, her fate haunts neither her friends nor her enemies.

Family of Nicholas II

Why has there been a myth for a century about the salvation of Princess Anastasia and the only son of Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei? After all, it was only in 1991 that a common grave with the remains of the royal family was discovered, among which the bodies of the prince and Anastasia were missing. And only in August 2007, near Yekaterinburg, the remains were discovered, presumably belonging to Tsarevich Alexei and the Grand Duchess. However, foreign experts have not confirmed this fact.

Confirmation of the death of Anastasia Romanova

In addition, there are a number of reasons that do not allow Anastasia to be considered dead along with the entire Royal Family on the night of July 17, 1918:

• “1. There is an eyewitness account who saw the wounded but alive Anastasia in a house on Voskresensky Prospekt in Yekaterinburg (almost opposite Ipatiev’s house) in the early morning of July 17, 1918; it was Heinrich Kleinbetzetl, a tailor from Vienna, an Austrian prisoner of war, who in the summer of 1918 worked in Yekaterinburg as an apprentice to the tailor Baudin. He saw her in Baudin's house in the early morning of July 17, a few hours after the brutal massacre in the basement of Ipatiev's house. It was brought by one of the guards (probably still from the previous more liberal composition of the guard - Yurovsky did not replace all the previous guards) - one of those few young guys who had long sympathized with the girls, the tsar’s daughters;
• 2. There is great confusion in the testimonies, reports and stories of the participants in this bloody massacre - even in different versions of the stories of the same participants;
• 3. It is known that the “Reds” were looking for the missing Anastasia for several months after the murder of the Royal Family;
• 4. It is known that one (or two?) women's corsets were not found. None of the “white” investigations answers all the questions, including the investigation of the Kolchak commission investigator Nikolai Sokolov;
• 5. The archives of the Cheka-KGB-FSB about the murder of the Royal Family and what the security officers led by Yurovsky in 1919 (a year after the execution) and MGB officers (Beria’s department) in 1946 did in the Koptyakovsky forest have not yet been opened. All documents known so far about the execution of the Royal Family (including Yurovsky’s “Note”) were obtained from other state archives(not from the FSB archives).”

The story of Anastasia Romanova

And so back to the story of Anna Anderson. A woman rescued from a suicide attempt was placed in the Elisabeth Hospital on Lützowstrasse. She admitted that she tried to commit suicide, but refused to give a reason or make any comments. Upon examination, doctors discovered that she had given birth six months ago. For a girl “under the age of twenty,” this was an important circumstance. They saw numerous scars from lacerations on the patient’s chest and stomach. On the head behind the right ear there was a 3.5 cm long scar, deep enough for a finger to go into it, as well as a scar on the forehead at the very roots of the hair. On the foot of his right leg there was a characteristic scar from a perforating wound. It fully corresponded to the shape and size of the wounds inflicted by the bayonet of a Russian rifle. There are cracks in the upper jaw.

The next day after the examination, she admitted to the doctor that she was afraid for her life: “She makes it clear that she does not want to identify herself for fear of persecution. The impression of restraint born of fear. More fear than restraint." The medical history also records that the patient has a congenital orthopedic foot disease hallux valgus of the third degree.

“The disease discovered in the patient by the doctors of the clinic in Daldorf absolutely coincided with the congenital disease of Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova. As one orthopedist put it: “It’s easier to find two girls of the same age with the same fingerprints than with signs of congenital hallux valgus.” The girls we are talking about also had the same height, foot size, hair and eye color, and portrait resemblance. From the medical record data it is clear that the traces of injuries to Anna Anderson fully correspond to those that, according to the forensic investigator Tomashevsky, were inflicted on Anastasia in the basement of Ipatiev’s house. The scar on the forehead also matches. Anastasia Romanova had such a scar since childhood, so she is the only one of the daughters of Nicholas II who always wore her hair with bangs.

Anna Anderson

Anna calls herself Anastasia

Later, Anna declared herself the daughter of Nikolai Romanov, Anastasia, and said that she came to Berlin in the hope of finding her aunt, Princess Irene, the sister of Queen Alexandra, but in the palace they did not recognize her or even listen to her. According to ‘Anastasia’, she attempted suicide out of shame and humiliation.

It was never possible to establish the exact data, and even the name of the patient (she was named Anna Anderson) - the ‘princess’ answered questions at random, and although she understood the questions in Russian, she answered them in some other Slavic language. However, someone later claimed that the patient spoke excellent Russian.

Her manners, gait, and communication with other people are not without a certain nobility. In addition, in conversations, the girl made quite competent judgments about various areas of life. She had an excellent understanding of art and music, knew geography well, and could freely list all the reigning persons of European states. In her appearance, the breed, “blue blood”, was clearly visible, inherent only to persons of the reigning dynasties or noble gentlemen and ladies close to the throne.

The news that a woman had appeared posing as the Tsar's daughter reached Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (Anastasia's aunt) and her mother Empress Maria Feodorovna (Anastasia's grandmother). Following their instructions, people who knew the royal family and Anastasia well began to come to the patient. They looked closely at Anna, asked her questions about life in Russia, about her salvation, about the facts of Anastasia’s life, known only to those closest to the Tsar. The girl spoke confusedly and confusedly and amazed many with her knowledge. Despite the correct, but confusing answers and slight external resemblance, a verdict was made - this is not Anastasia.

Anna or Anastasia?

Interrogation of Anastasia Romanova

Another of the main arguments against Anderson being Anastasia was her categorical refusal to speak Russian. Many eyewitnesses also claimed that she generally understood very poorly when addressed in her native language. She herself, however, motivated her reluctance to speak Russian by the shock she experienced while under arrest, when the guards forbade members of the emperor’s family to communicate with each other in any other languages, since they could not understand them in this case. In addition, Anderson demonstrated almost complete ignorance of Orthodox customs and rituals.

Why did members of the House of Romanov in Europe and their relatives from the royal dynasties of Germany turn out to be opposed to it almost immediately, in the early 1920s? “Firstly, Anna Anderson spoke sharply about Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich (“he is a traitor”) - the same one who, immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II, took his Guards crew away from Tsarskoe Selo and allegedly put on a red bow.

Secondly, she unintentionally revealed a big state secret, which concerned her mother’s brother (Empress Alexandra Feodorovna), about the arrival of her uncle Ernie of Hesse to Russia in 1916. The visit was associated with intentions to persuade Nicholas II to a separate peace with Germany. In the early twenties it was still a state secret

Thirdly, Anna-Anastasia herself was in such a difficult physical and psychological condition (consequences of severe injuries received in the basement of Ipatiev’s house, and the very difficult previous two years of wandering) that communicating with her was not easy for anyone. There is an important fourth reason, but first things first.

The question of succession to the Russian throne

In 1922, in the Russian Diaspora, the question of who would lead the dynasty was being decided for the place of the “Emperor in Exile.” The main contender was Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov. He, like most Russian emigrants, could not even imagine that the Bolshevik rule would last for seven long decades. The appearance of Anastasia caused confusion and division of opinion in the ranks of the monarchists. The subsequent information about the physical and mental ill health of the princess, and the presence of an heir to the throne who was born in an unequal marriage (either from a soldier, or from a lieutenant of peasant origin), all this did not contribute to her immediate recognition, not to mention the consideration of her candidacy to replace the head of the dynasty.

“The Romanovs did not want to see God’s anointed peasant son, which was either in Romania or in Soviet Russia. By the time she met her relatives in 1925, Anastasia was seriously ill with tuberculosis. Her weight barely reached 33 kg. The people surrounding Anastasia believed that her days were numbered. And who besides the mother needed her “bastard”? But she survived, and after meetings with Aunt Olya and other close people, she dreamed of meeting her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. She was waiting for recognition from her family, but instead, in 1928, on the second day after the death of the Dowager Empress, several members of the Romanov dynasty publicly renounced her, declaring that she was an impostor. The insult led to a break in the relationship.”

Impostor or Princess Anastasia Romanova?

The fact that Anna Anderson was an impostor, and not Grand Duchess Anastasia, was immediately reported to Grand Duchess Olga. The Grand Duchess cannot calm down in any way, she is tormented by doubts, and in the fall of 1925, taking with her Alexandra Tegleva, the former nanny of Anastasia and Maria and several ladies who are well acquainted with the royal family, she herself goes to Berlin.

When they met, Anastasia’s nanny did not recognize Anna as her ward, but the color of her eyes completely matched. Those eyes suddenly filled with tears of joy. Anna approached Tyeglyova and, hugging her tightly, began to cry. Looking at this touching scene, the arriving ladies were dumbfounded, but not the Grand Duchess. Having last seen Anastasia in 1916, she determined at first glance that the girl standing in front of her had nothing in common with her niece.

Answering questions from the ladies present, Anna Anderson revealed a good knowledge of the customs and practices of the imperial house. She even mentioned the finger injury, showing the scar on it to the arriving ladies. She also indicated the time - 1915, when the footman, slamming the carriage door hard, pinched the Grand Duchess's finger.

The girl affectionately called Tyeglyova Shura and told about several funny incidents from her childhood. They really took place, and the former nanny hesitated. The woman was ready to recognize Anna Anderson as her pupil when she suddenly remembered the incident with the finger. It happened not to Anastasia, but to Maria - and not in a carriage, but in a train compartment. The charm woven by the stranger from dear memories dissipated. But there was still one more piece of evidence that needed to be verified.

Anastasia's big toes had a slight curvature. This doesn’t happen often with young girls, and Tegleva, overcoming her awkwardness, asked Anna Anderson to take off her shoes. She, not at all embarrassed, took off her shoes. The above toes did indeed look crooked, but the feet themselves did not match Anastasia's feet. The daughter of Nicholas II had them graceful and small, but here they are wide and much larger. And another verdict - an impostor.

Royal family

Life of Anastasia Romanova

The breakdown of relations with most of her relatives forced Anna to defend her rights in court. This is how forensic experts appeared in Anastasia’s life. The first graphological examination was made in 1927. It was performed by an employee of the Institute of Graphology in Prisna, Dr. Lucy Weizsäcker. Comparing the handwriting on the recently written samples with the handwriting on the samples written by Anastasia during the life of Nicholas II, Lucy Weizsäcker came to the conclusion that the samples belong to the same person.

In 1938, at the insistence of Anna, the trial began and ended only in 1977. It lasted 39 years and is one of the longest trials in modern history humanity. All this time, Anna lives either in America or in her own house in the Black Forest village, given to her by the Prince of Saxe-Coburg.

In 1968, at the age of 70, Anderson married large industrialist John Manahan from Virginia, who dreamed of getting a real Russian princess as his wife, and became Anna Manahan. It is interesting that while she was in the United States, Anna met with Mikhail Golenevsky, who pretended to be “the miraculously saved Tsarevich Alexei,” and publicly recognized him as her brother.

In 1977, the trial was finally put to rest. The court denied Anna Manahan the right to inherit the property of the royal family, as it considered the available evidence of her relationship with the Romanovs insufficient. Having failed to achieve her goal, the mysterious woman dies on February 12, 1984.

Expert opinions about whether Anderson was the emperor's real daughter or a simple impostor remained controversial. When in 1991 it was decided to exhume the remains of the royal family, research was also carried out on Anna’s relationship with the Romanov family. DNA tests did not show Anderson to be a member of the Russian royal family.

Now I will give the floor to the American author Peter Kurt, whose book “Anastasia. The Riddle of Anna Anderson" (in Russian translation "Anastasia. The Riddle Grand Duchess") is considered by many to be the best historiography of this mystery (and wonderfully written). Peter Kurth knew Anna Anderson personally. This is what he wrote in the afterword to the Russian edition of his book:

Stories about Anastasia Romanova

“Truth is a snare; you can't have it without getting caught. You can’t catch her, she catches a person.”
Søren Kirkegaard

“Fiction must remain within the boundaries of the possible. The truth is no.”
Mark Twain

These quotes were sent to me by a friend of mine in 1995, shortly after the Department forensic medicine The British Home Office announced that studies of the mitochondrial DNA of "Anna Anderson" have conclusively proven that she is not Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. According to the conclusion of a team of British geneticists in Aldermaston, led by Dr Peter Gill, Ms Anderson's DNA does not match either the DNA of female skeletons recovered from a grave near Yekaterinburg in 1991 and allegedly belonging to the queen and her three daughters, nor with the DNA of Anastasia's maternal relatives and paternal line, residing in England and elsewhere. At the same time, a blood test of Karl Mauger, the great-nephew of missing factory worker Franziska Schanckowska, revealed a mitochondrial match, leading to the conclusion that Franziska and Anna Anderson are the same person. Subsequent tests in other laboratories looking at the same DNA led to the same conclusion.

... I knew Anna Anderson for more than ten years and was familiar with almost everyone who was involved in her struggle for recognition over the past quarter century: friends, lawyers, neighbors, journalists, historians, representatives of the Russian royal family and royal families Europe, the Russian and European aristocracy - a wide range of competent witnesses who, without hesitation, recognized her as the royal daughter. My knowledge of her character, all the details of her case and, as it seems to me, probability and common sense - everything convinces me that she was a Russian Grand Duchess.

This belief of mine, although challenged (by DNA research), remains unshakable. Not being an expert, I cannot question Dr. Gill's results; if only these results had revealed that Ms. Anderson was not a member of the Romanov family, I might be able to accept them—if not easily now, then at least in time. However, no amount of scientific evidence or forensic evidence will convince me that Ms. Anderson and Franziska Schanckowska are the same person.

I categorically state that those who knew Anna Anderson, who lived with her for months and years, treated her and cared for her during her many illnesses, be it a doctor or a nurse, who observed her behavior, posture, demeanor, — they can’t believe that she was born in a village in East Prussia in 1896 and was the daughter and sister of beet farmers.”

So, in the case of Anastasia Romanova, we can state the following

• "1. Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova had a congenital deformity of both feet “Hallux Valgus” (bursitis of the big toe). This is visible not only in some photographs of the young Grand Duchess, but was confirmed after 1920 even by those people close to her (to Anastasia) who did not believe in the identity of Anna Anderson (for example, the Tsar’s younger sister, Olga Alexandrovna - and she knew the imperial children starting from their birth; this was also confirmed by Pierre Gilliard, the teacher of the royal children, who was at court since 1905). This was precisely a congenital case of the disease. The nanny (of little Anastasia), Alexandra (Shura) Tegleva, also confirmed congenital bunions of Anastasia’s big toes.
• 2. Anna Anderson also had a congenital deformity of both feet “Hallux Valgus” (bunions).
  In addition to the diagnosis of German doctors (in Daldorf in 1920), the diagnosis of congenital “Hallux Valgus” was made to Anna Anderson (Anna Tchaikovskaya) also by the Russian doctor Sergei Mikhailovich Rudnev at the clinic of St. Maria in the summer of 1925 (Anna Tchaikovskaya-Anderson was there in serious condition, with tuberculosis infections): “On her right leg I noticed a severe deformity, apparently congenital: the big toe bends to the right, forming a tumor.”
  Rudnev also noted that “Hallux Valgus” was on both of her legs. (See Peter Kurt. - Anastasia. The Mystery of the Grand Duchess. M., Zakharova Publishing House, p. 99). Dr. Sergei Rudnev cured and saved her life in 1925. Anna Anderson called him “my kind Russian professor who saved my life.”
• 3. On July 27, 1925, the Gilliard couple arrived in Berlin. Once again: Shura Gilliard-Tegleva was Anastasia’s nanny in Russia. They visited a very sick Anna Anderson in the clinic. Shura Tegleva asked to show her the patient’s legs (feet). The blanket was carefully turned away, Shura exclaimed: “With her [with Anastasia] it was the same as here: the right leg was worse than the left” (see the book by Peter Kurt, p. 121)
  Now, I will give once again the medical statistics of “Hallux Valgus” (bursitis of the big toe) for Russia:
  — “Hallux valgus” (HV) is present in 0.95% of the examined women;
  - 89% of them have the first degree of HV (= 0.85% of the women examined);
  - 1.6% of them have the third degree of HV (= 0.0152% of the women examined or 1: 6580);
  — the statistics of a congenital case of “hallux valgus” (in modern Russia) is 8:142,000,000, or approximately 1:17,750,000!

We can assume that the statistics of congenital cases of “hallux valgus” in former Russia did not differ too much (even several times, 1: 10,000,000, or 1: 5,000,000). Thus, the probability that Anna Anderson was not Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova ranges from 1:5 million to 1:17 million.

Evidence of Anna's relationship to the Romano dynasty

It is also known that the statistics of congenital cases of this orthopedic disease in the West in the first half of the 20th century were also calculated in single cases for the entire orthopedic medical practice.
Thus, the very rare congenital deformity of the legs “hallux valgus” of Grand Duchess Anastasia and Anna Anderson puts an end to the tough (and sometimes cruel) debate between supporters and opponents of Anna Anderson.

Vladimir Momot published his article (“Gone with the Wind”) in February 2007 in the American newspaper “Panorama” (Los-Angeles, newspaper “Panorama”). He did a great job to restore the truth about Anna Anderson and the royal daughter Anastasia. It’s amazing how, for more than 80 years, no one thought to find out the medical statistics of hallux valgus foot deformity! Truly this story is reminiscent of the fairy tale about the glass slipper!

Now we can be completely and irrevocably sure that Anna Anderson and Grand Duchess Anastasia are one and the same person.”

So who is Anna Anderson really, an impostor or Anastasia Romanova? If Anna Anderson and Grand Duchess Anastasia are one and the same person, then it remains to be seen whose remains were buried under the name of Grand Duchess Anastasia in St. Petersburg in July 1998 (however, there are doubts about other remains buried then), and whose the remains were found in the summer of 2007 in the Koptyakovsky forest.

Anastasia

And finally, an excerpt from S. Sadalsky’s story “The Riddle of the Princess”: Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova - June 5, 1901 - Peterhof - July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg. “In the early 80s, when, by the will of fate, I began to visit Germany quite often, I showed great interest in the old Russian emigrants who, like fragments of Russian culture, were still preserved there. I reached out to them, and they reached out to me. The Soviets at that time were afraid of them like hell.

My curiosity was rewarded by meeting Princess Anastasia, who, before her death, came to Hanover to say goodbye to her friends and youth.

I told her, naturally, in Russian (she answered in German), that I had seen the Ipatievs’ house in Sverdlovsk during my tour with the Sovremennik Theater, that the city’s residents extremely revered this place and brought flowers to it.

Then, by order of the first secretary of the regional party committee, Yeltsin, the house was demolished overnight, but the residents took everything home brick by brick and kept it as a shrine.

The princess listened and cried and asked me to bow to that place. She died in America in 1984."

P.S.: “Holy Princess Anastasia The youngest daughter, Anastasia, was born in 1901. At first she was a tomboy and the family jester. She was shorter than others; she had a straight nose and beautiful gray eyes. Later, she was distinguished by her good manners and subtlety of mind, had the talent of a comedian and loved to make everyone laugh. She was also extremely kind and loved animals. Anastasia had a small Japanese dog, the favorite of the whole family. Anastasia carried this dog in her arms when she went down to the Yekaterinburg basement on the fateful night of July 4/17, and the little dog was killed along with her.”

Based on materials from the article by Boris Romanov “The Crystal Slippers of Princess Anastasia”

Comments

Vitaliy Pavlovich Romanov

I am also convinced that Toska was very disturbing
Kirill and his pack to bask in the royal treasury, and
Olya dreamed of seizing the throne. The greed of it
family is palpable to me.

The Grand Duke himself is at your service.
Romanov Vitaly Pavlovich.

Romanov Vitaly Pavlovich

My last name is Romanov. I have never been interested in my origins. Now I have become an old man and
I really want to know who I am? Maybe also a charlatan like Anderson? And Anastasia lived for 17 years
in Russia, but did not know the language of my homeland. The conclusion suggests itself - your Anderson is
scammer. Romanov V.P. himself is at your service...

Victoria

You know, I was never interested in the Second World War or any revolution. I was always interested in the Romanovs, the Romanov family, where they were born, how 300 years of the throne were celebrated. But most of all I was interested in Anastasia. Did she survive, or was she saved? This question I’ve been interested in her for many years. I just can’t believe that she, like everyone else, was shot in the basement. She suffered for so many years, proving that she was the one, Anastasia Romanova. Do you know? I believe that “Anna Anderson” was that Anastasia to her. After all, while she was walking through the forest, or whatever it was, for 2 years, her toes became crooked. And before, as Tegleva said, she had soft, tender legs. I wish I could walk for 2 years! !!No, it was Anastasia!

Ural historians found the remains of the royal family back in 1976, but the excavations themselves were carried out only in 1991. Then, with the help of many examinations, scientists were able to prove that the found fragments of bodies belonged to Tsar Nicholas, Empress Alexandra, three daughters - Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia, as well as their servants. The fate of only the bodies of Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria, who were not found in the general burial, remained mysterious. http://ura.ru/content/svrd/16-09-2011/news/1052134206.html.

At the end of 2010 it was released in the USA A new book famous authors Gregory King Penny Wilson entitled “The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery.” In fact, the whole book is an attempt to prove that Anna Anderson was not Anastasia, but the Polish factory worker Franziska Schanckowska. Another blatant attempt to prove the impossible - and an attempt with unsuitable means, with extreme bias towards evidence in favor of the fact that Anna was Grand Duchess Anastasia (the youngest daughter of the Royal Family The authors' suppression of some facts and the juggling and "twisting" of others are all well-known old techniques of the "devil's advocate."
Until 1994, no one took this version seriously at all, and even its “creators” (from the entourage of “Uncle Ernie” \Ernst of Hesse, Anastasia’s uncle\ - for more details, see articles on this topic by V. Momot) did not present this version in the courts - too obvious to everyone AT THAT TIME (during Anna Anderson’s life, until 1984) was her falsity. However, in 1994, a comparative DNA examination of the samples remaining in one of the American hospitals was carried out in the West. internal organs Anna Manahan (Anderson) with the DNA of one of F. Shantskovskaya’s relatives (Karl Maucher, her great-nephew) - and this examination... gave a positive result. True, the likelihood of error in that examination was too great (by today's standards for DNA tests - I will talk about this below), and the origin of the samples of Anna Manahan's internal organs was questionable - the hospital where these samples were stored responded to the first request that they were not were preserved, but after a few months she allegedly found them. These suspicious circumstances were immediately pointed out by supporters of Anna-Anastasia, and on large English-language forums on the Royal Family on the Internet, since the early 2000s, real online battles between supporters and opponents of Anna-Anastasia have unfolded.
And so, in 2010, G. King and P. Wilson (previously known as supporters of Anna-Anastasia) released this book. It has not been published in Russian, but I have read many excerpts from it that Greg King published on the Penny Wilson forum (ColdHarbor). Daily active discussions with Greg King about their book on this forum (for over a month) allowed me to form a very complete (I think) impression. Overall very critical.
Of course, the authors did a lot of research in the archives - I give them credit for that great work, and I agreed with some of their particular conclusions on some topics. In particular, as Greg King told me in January 2011, in the original diagnosis of Dr. Rudnev (1925) about Anna Tchaikovskaya’s bunion, it was written not “congenital”, but “hereditary”, but, as far as I understand, if this changes the given V.Momot’s statistical figures for this form of the disease () are not thousands of times higher, and the statistics still remain very convincing (in favor of identifying Anna as Anastasia).
However, they decided not to take into account the fact that some of the archives (Hessian) were created and were under the control of ardent enemies of Anna Anderson (under the control of “Uncle Ernie” and his lawyers).

RESURRECTION... FRANCISKA SHANTSKOVSKA
Contrary to the title of the book (“The Resurrection of the Romanovs”), the authors actually resurrected F. Shantskrvskaya. .
King and Wilson, without good reason, rejected many of the evidence against Franziska Shantskovskaya, and, accordingly, for Anna-Anastasia. For example, they deny without any basis the recognition by the Berlin police of the murder of Franziska Schanckowska in 1920 by the serial killer-maniac butcher Grossman (he killed, according to various versions, from 20 to 100 of his “clients” \before he was caught in 1920\, mostly prostitutes , and made pies from human meat for sale) - The Berlin police reported the murder of Franziska to the Shantskovsky family, and until 1927, until, on the instructions of “Uncle Ernie,” his private detectives came up with this version full of absurdities and inconsistencies, the Shantskovsky family considered her murdered. Let us note that the police of the Weimar Republic worked very well, and even in the most difficult years, the police regularly received very high salaries (this is a well-known fact in Germany). On the other hand, King and Wilson, without sufficient grounds, attribute to the Berlin police the recognition of Anna Tchaikovskaya (AA) as F. Shantskovskaya (FS) in 1927 - all this, as G. King honestly admitted to me (on the above-mentioned web forum) is theirs conviction, faith (BELIEF) and their assumption (PRESUMPTION) - just that, it’s appropriate to say in this case!..
Here is another damning (for the authors of the book and all FS supporters) fact: FS (Franziska Schanckowska) was a patient in the hospital (psychiatric clinic) in Dalldorf for four months in 1917. And when she (FS -! according to this false version) was there again in 1920, no one recognized her and she was registered there as Froilein Unbekant! Nobody recognized her?! How is this possible? - If the authors of the book were objective researchers (or at least tried to be such), they could easily establish in the archives of the Daldorf clinic which of the clinic staff worked there in both 1917 and 1920 - and, without a doubt, they found There would be many such people among both doctors and nurses. But, as you might guess, there is not a word about this in the book...

EXTREME BIAS OF G. KING and P. WILSON.
Further, as I understand from communication on the forum, they interpret ABSOLUTELY all evidence, both previously known and newly found by them in the archives, EXCLUSIVELY against Anna Anderson’s self-identification as Anastasia, in favor of F. Shantskovskaya, and direct evidence in favor of Anna -Anastasia, as I noted above, is simply rejected under clearly far-fetched pretexts. For example, they simply reject (as meaningless “opinions”) the diagnoses (psychological aspects of medical reports) of her seven attending physicians from various psychiatric hospitals and sanatoriums (among whom four were renowned professional psychologists that (I quote) “Ms. Anna Tchaikovskaya (Anderson) could previously only have been brought up in an aristocratic family" and, most importantly, they all unanimously denied (I quote) "the possibility of fraud, or hypnosis, or psychopathy in her self-identification."
In particular, the famous German psychiatrist Bonhoeffer wrote in 1925:
“Her posture, facial expressions and grace in her manner of speaking indicate that she comes from an intelligent family... She probably grew up surrounded by the Grand Duchess, she was the daughter of an officer or some courtier of the Royal Family... She could not adopt it's all from books or other people's stories."
("Anastasia. The Mystery of the Grand Duchess" Peter Kurt, pp. 103, 104).
And it’s sad and funny that G. King and P. Wilson found additional evidence that the Shantskovsky family was extremely dysfunctional, dirty (even, as they believe, to the point of forced incest) and quarrelsome, and Franziska herself, in their opinion, perhaps she also “earned money” after 1916 through prostitution... - it is not surprising that G. King, in a discussion with me on a web forum, with arrogant stubbornness denied any significance to the reports (conclusions) of psychiatrists, calling them “meaningless opinions"!
In addition, I quote below the testimony of another psychiatrist, from the Stillehaus sanatorium in Obersdorf, where AA was in the fall and winter of 1927 ("Anastasia. The Mystery of the Grand Duchess" Peter Kurt, pp. 150-153). Dr. E. Saathof (head of the sanatorium) in the final diagnosis (together with the attending physician Eitel) wrote:
“It is completely impossible that Frau Tchaikovskaya is an impostor. In any circumstances, she always behaved completely differently than one would expect from an impostor.”
Dr. Saathof also wrote: “I find it impossible that this woman was from the lower classes of society... I find it absolutely impossible that this woman deliberately played the role of another. Moreover, observing her behavior in general does not in any way contradict her assertion that she is who she says she is.”
I asked G. King if he knew the contrary testimony of several psychiatrists, or psychoanalysts, or any of Anna Tchaikovskaya's attending physicians? Or at least one? – as you can easily guess, Greg King did not answer this question for me.
Meanwhile, the almost identical evidence of four independent psychiatrists looks especially convincing if we consider that, according to probabilistic and statistical studies of psychologists themselves in the 20th century, the diagnoses of psychiatrists of even one national school coincide in no more than 60-65% of cases (“Diagnostics in psychiatry" Morozov G.V., Shumsky N.G. http://www.solarys-info.ru/articles/article.aspx?id=6432).

Well, G. King and P. Wilson simply reject these facts. I will not give here numerous examples of other similar omissions and biased interpretations - there are many of them.
Those interested can read reviews of this book on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk (at English language) \link is long, for some reason it doesn’t work when publishing\
There are also several very sharp negative reviews, the authors of which show many errors in the book in the presentation of facts, and also accuse King & Wilson of withholding some facts (in favor of Anna-Anastasia), incompletely quoting documents (when this is disadvantageous to King & Wilson), distortion and obvious bias. In particular, reviewers accuse the book's authors of clearly favoring those witnesses (against Anna-Anastasia) who clearly lied and then refused to give their testimony under oath in German courts, and of favoring books about Anna Anderson by those authors (such as Pierre Gilliard ), whose lies were previously proven and undeniable. As one reviewer correctly noted, their book is aimed at those who have not read anything about this story before.
All critics of the new book by King & Wilson note that Peter Kurt’s book “Anastasia. The Riddle of the Grand Duchess” (Peter Kurth “Anastasia. The riddle of Anna Anderson”, 1983/84) remains unsurpassed in the convincingness of the facts and evidence collected in it. The enormous work in the archives carried out by G. King and P. Wilson turned into a soap bubble of another historical hoax in their new book - due to the extreme bias of the authors...

NEW DNA TESTS.
I’ll tell you here in a little more detail only about the new DNA testing of the same relative of F. Shantskovskaya, and, this time, a lock of hair from Anna Manahan (Anderson), which was kept by Greg King since 1990 (in his own words) - I don’t know when and how this curl got to him. This time, a comparative DNA analysis was carried out by the famous specialist Dr. Michael Koble (he also participated in the DNA tests of the so-called “Ekaterinburg remains” in 2007 from the official side). According to G. King (January 13, 2011 on the ColdHarbor forum) with reference to Dr. Coble's documents, “the DNA likelihood ratio is 4100 times more likely that AA was FS than that she was not” - i.e. The "likelihood ratio" of the DNA test showed that Anna Anderson (AA) was 4,100 times more likely to be Francisca Shantzkova than not to be her. Then, G. King also reported that, according to the calculations of Dr. M. Coble, the total “likelihood ratio” of the two DNA tests (1994 and 2010) is 16,500: 1.
Of course, to non-specialists in the field of comparative DNA tests, these numbers seem huge and very convincing.
However, let us turn to the modern judicial practice of using DNA tests in US courts. I quote (medinform.biz, “DNA in court”):
http://www.medinform.biz/stat1.php?id=24422
“DNA identification was used in the US court in the criminal case of US President Bill Clinton. Traces of semen on Monica Lewinsky's dress and President Clinton's blood were the source material for comparison. DNA isolated from these samples was compared at 7 loci (a term referring to the size of the population genetic analysis database). The analysis showed that the probability of a random coincidence is 1 in 43,000, that is, the probability of correct identification (likelihood ratio) is 43,000:1.”
NOW ATTENTION: “The court (commission of court experts on DNA tests) considered this figure (43,000:1) to be clearly insufficient (too small). An additional examination was ordered for 7 other loci (that is, the initial base of population genetic analysis was expanded). The resulting probability of a random coincidence was 1 in 7.87 trillion, which is three orders of magnitude higher than the population globe. This DNA likelihood ratio convinced the court that the sperm could have belonged specifically to Clinton and not to another man.”
In fact, the DNA identification accuracy recommended in the United States (DNA likelihood ratio) should be such that the corresponding genotype is unique in a population that is an order of magnitude larger than the world population. Only such accuracy (probability of identification) is considered in US courts to be a sufficient guarantee of accurate identification of a person using DNA tests.
Let us explain this in a little more detail using our example of the “A. Anderson-F. Shantskrvskaya” test: the DNA likelihood ratio = 4100: 1 What does this mean? This means that statistically, among every 4,100 people (randomly selected for DNA tests), there will be one person whose DNA matches the DNA of F. Shantskovskaya (and her relatives). This means that in almost every large skyscraper (where about 4,000 people live) there is one person whose DNA matches the DNA of F. Shantskovskaya. Or, in other words: also in every village with a population of about 4,000 people there lives one person whose DNA would match the DNA of F. Shantskovskaya.
This means it is likely that this DNA test was performed with too little of the original population genetics base. As far as I know, for DNA tests of the “Ekaterinburg remains” of Dr. Michael Coble used a much larger base of population genetics - although some DNA test experts (eg Dr. Zhivotovsky) believe that in this case (at least in the 1990s) the base of population genetics was also insufficient (http: //www.tzar-nikolai.orthodoxy.ru/ost/mnk/7.htm).
I absolutely do not question the high professionalism and scientific integrity of Dr. Michael Coble. This is not about this, but about the volume of the original database of population genetics, which he had when performing DNA tests by A. Anderson and F. Shantskovskaya (as well as the unclear origin and storage conditions of samples of internal organs and a lock of hair to AA before transferring them for DNA testing - more on that later).
One way or another, DNA likelihood ratio = 4100:1 (as well as 16500:1) is categorically insufficient (too small) not only for any American court, but, possibly, for a court in any other developed country world, and also simply in order to put this result above the likelihood ratio of a set of other (non-DNA) tests on the problem “Was Anna Anderson Franziska Shantskovskaya or was she Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova.”
Of course, there is still a hypothesis that the distant ancestors of the Shantskovsky family had origins from an aristocratic German family (or a prince of some German principality), and had common ancestors with the family of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (nee Princess Alice Victoria Elena Louise Beatrice of Hesse-Darmstadt) - but this is still just a weak hypothesis, still unconfirmed.

PROBABILITY-STATISTICS COUNTING OF OTHER TESTS VERSUS DNA TESTS
According to my rough calculations, all other studies on Anna Anderson available for probabilistic-statistical analysis (not only on bunions, but all others) give tens (if not hundreds) of billions of chances against one for the fact that Anna Anderson was the Grand Duchess Anastasia.
For example, a detailed probabilistic-statistical analysis of 18 questions from Prince Sigismund (a German relative of the Royal family who saw Anastasia in the royal hunting reserve Spale in the fall of 1912), which he asked her in 1932 and, according to him, most of which she answered correctly - this analysis shows that Anna Anderson's correct answers to even half of these questions give a Likelyhood ratio(lr1) of at least 16500-20000 chances that she was Anastasia (versus one chance that she was not). I will not give here and further technical calculations so as not to overload the article.
A probabilistic-statistical analysis of the reports of four German psychiatrists (which I spoke about above) gives Lr2 at least 800-900 chances against one that Anna Tchaikovskaya-Anderson was Anastasia. Well, let me remind you about Lr3 - at least 13,000 chances against one for severe bilateral bursitis (I’m not even talking about congenital or hereditary bursitis here). All this together shows a “likelihood ratio” (Likelihood Ratio, LR - the number that is considered in courts when deciding on DNA tests) of more than 150 billion (!) against one chance that Anna Anderson was Grand Duchess Anastasia!
LR=Lr1 x Lr2 x Lr3 = more than 150000000000: 1. Compare this with LR of DNA tests (AA=FS)= 16500:1...

AGAIN ABOUT DNA TESTS
But that's not all. Let's remember the origin of tissue samples (internal organs and a lock of Anna Anderson's hair). There is precedent for this issue in American judicial practice.
In the 2000s, a Los Angeles court tried the case of American football star OJ Simpson. He was accused of killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend. The victims' blood was found on his clothes, on socks found in his house, and on his car. A DNA examination was carried out, which established the correspondence of these blood samples and the blood of Simpson himself. Despite this, the court did not accept the results of the DNA examination as evidence of Simpson’s guilt, since errors were identified during the investigation and examination. When the officer who collected the samples testified, it was revealed that blood on the rear window of the car and socks in the house behind the sofa were discovered a month later. And therefore the court did not reject the version that this material evidence was falsified.
Thus, I think that no American court will accept Anna Andersen’s DNA tests from both 1994 (because tissue samples from AA’s organs in the hospital were first allegedly lost and allegedly found a few months later) and 2010 (because that hair samples from AA were not formally documented from the very beginning and were kept for a long time in unofficial conditions).
Of course, these are just my assumptions, but I think that everything said above as a whole does not give grounds to put the indicated DNA tests “at the forefront” of the problem of identifying Anna Anderson. Unfortunately, Gregory King and Penny Wilson did the opposite in their new book, and based on the results of these DNA tests (raising them to the dignity of “HOLY COW”), all other facts and evidence were considered precisely “in the light” of these DNA tests .

Greg King confessed to me on January 16, 2011 on the ColdHarbor forum:
“Well, I am IGNORING all computations as I am a complete dunce when it comes to math.” (large print - by H. King himself, translated: Well, I IGNORE all the calculations, since I am a complete idiot when it comes to mathematics."
I answered him then: This is your problem and this is your problem, Greg!
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Since many specialists and historians (familiar with this topic) often refer to the article by Dr. M. Coble (with co-authors) “Mystery Solved: The Identification of the Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis”: as allegedly closing the hypothesis of the possible salvation of V. To. Anastasia on the night of July 17, 1918, I provide here links to my objections on this issue. They were published by me (in English) as a note to the article itself, see:

The essence of the comment is that the conclusion of the article that “none of the members of the Royal Family escaped in the early morning of July 17, 1918” (in the “Discussion” section) is not related to DNA analysis (that is, it is not a conclusion from the results of DNA research , not a conclusion from the article, but simply the opinion of its authors), and at the same time, in this and in other sections of the article, the authors themselves write several times that DNA analysis is the so-called. “new Ekaterinburg remains” (found in 2007) allowed them to establish ONLY that the fragments of the bones of the boy from the 2007 burial belong to his son Alexei, and the fragments of the girl’s bones belong to ONE OF the daughters of the Royal Family (or Maria, or Anastasia, or possibly one of the other daughters ). So far (to this day, March 2, 2011) Dr.M.Coble has not responded to this remark of mine (see link above).

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Now I will give the floor to the American author Peter Kurt, whose book (in the Russian translation “Anastasia. The Mystery of the Grand Duchess”), according to many, is the best in the historiography of this problem. Peter Kurth knew Anna Anderson personally. This is what he wrote in the afterword to the Russian edition of his book (in 2005):

<<Истина – это западня; ею нельзя обладать, не попавшись.
You can't catch her, she catches a person.
Søren Kirkegaard
Fiction must remain within the boundaries of the possible.
The truth is no.
Mark Twain

These quotes were sent to me by a friend in 1995, shortly after the British Home Office's Department of Forensic Sciences announced that mitochondrial DNA testing of "Anna Anderson" had conclusively proven that she was not Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. According to the conclusion of a team of British geneticists in Aldermaston, led by Dr Peter Gill, Ms Anderson's DNA does not match either the DNA of female skeletons recovered from a grave near Yekaterinburg in 1991 and allegedly belonging to the queen and her three daughters, nor with the DNA of Anastasia's maternal relatives and paternal line, residing in England and elsewhere. At the same time, a blood test of Karl Mauger, the great-nephew of missing factory worker Franziska Schanckowska, revealed a mitochondrial match, leading to the conclusion that Franziska and Anna Anderson are the same person. Subsequent tests in other laboratories looking at the same DNA led to the same conclusion.
... I knew Anna Anderson for more than ten years and was familiar with almost everyone who was involved in her struggle for recognition over the past quarter century: friends, lawyers, neighbors, journalists, historians, representatives of the Russian royal family and the royal families of Europe, Russian and European aristocracy - a wide circle of competent witnesses who, without hesitation, recognized her as the tsar’s daughter. My knowledge of her character, all the details of her case and, as it seems to me, probability and common sense - everything convinces me that she was a Russian Grand Duchess.
This belief of mine, although challenged (by DNA research), remains unshakable. Not being an expert, I cannot question Dr. Gill's results; if only these results had revealed that Ms. Anderson was not a member of the Romanov family, I might be able to accept them—if not easily now, then at least in time. However, no amount of scientific evidence or forensic evidence will convince me that Ms. Anderson and Franziska Schanckowska are the same person.
I categorically state that those who knew Anna Anderson, who lived with her for months and years, treated her and cared for her during her many illnesses, be it a doctor or a nurse, who observed her behavior, posture, demeanor, - they can't believe that she was born in a village in East Prussia in 1896 and was the daughter and sister of beet farmers.

CRYSTAL SLIPS OF GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA.

For those who know the story of the mysterious Anna Anderson (1901-1984), who declared herself to be the surviving daughter of Emperor Nicholas II, Anastasia, I will say right away that congenital deformation of her feet (Hallux valgus), which was known from the childhood of the Grand Duchess and which Anna Anderson also had - this very rare congenital deformation of the feet puts an end to the fierce debate between supporters and opponents of Anna Anderson. In the fairy tale, the princess was recognized by her crystal slipper, but if in the fairy tale the Prince recognized Cinderella, then in Anna-Anastasia’s life everything happened the other way around, and to this day, almost 88 years after Anna-Anastasia’s appearance in Berlin, even a significant part (if not The majority) of members of the House of Romanov do not recognize that Anna Anderson was rescued on July 17, 1918 by Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova. Fierce debate about the mystery of Anna Anderson continues to this day...
The surprising thing is that everyone knew about the rarity of this orthopedic disease, but until recently it never occurred to anyone to contact orthopedic specialists and find out the exact medical statistics. Only this year (2007) a previously unknown engineer from Yekaterinburg (let’s call him “N”, more about him at the end of the article) did this. So:
“The first work on this disease (deviation of the big toe to the outside of the foot) was published by Dr. Laforest in 1778. Among the largest works devoted to the study of the causes of this disease, it is worth mentioning the monographs of D.E. Shklovsky (1937), the dissertations of E.I. Zaitseva (1959) and G.N. Kramarenko (1970). Working at the Central Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics of the USSR Ministry of Health, Galina Nikolaevna Kramarenko processed statistical material collected as a result of mass examinations of women on diseases of static foot deformation. As a result, she received the following data. Hallux valgus. As a rule, it appears in women aged 30-35 years. G. Kramarenko found that 0.95% of the examined women suffer from “isolated” hallux valgus. Moreover, the first degree of the disease was recorded in 89%, and the third only in 1.6% of women with this disease. Thus, one in six and a half thousand women over the age of 30 suffers from this disease (1:6500). As for cases of congenital disease, they are isolated and extremely rare. At the leading Russian institution on this problem, the Scientific Research Children's Orthopedic Institute named after G.I. Turner has recorded only eight cases of this disease over the past ten years. And this is for one hundred and fifty million [more precisely, 142 million – B.R.] residents of Russia.”

So, the statistics for a congenital case of hallux valgus is 8:142,000,000, or approximately 1:17,750,000! Thus, it is with this probability (99.9999947) that Anna Anderson really was Grand Duchess Anastasia! By the way, this same Scientific Research Children's Orthopedic Institute named after G.I. Turner is located in Tsarskoye Selo (now the city of Pushkin), where on June 5/18, 1901 at 6 o'clock. Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova was born this morning. It is very likely that the pediatrician Heinrich Ivanovich Turner (September 17/29, 1858 - July 20, 1941), after whom the institute is named, examined the royal children at the beginning of the 20th century in the Alexander Palace and diagnosed little Anastasia with hallux valgus...
The above statistics practically neutralize the negative results of DNA tests carried out with the remains of some of its tissue materials in 1994-1997, since in those years the reliability of DNA research did not exceed 1:6000 - three thousand times less reliable than the “crystal slipper” statistics Anna-Anastasia! At the same time, the statistics of congenital “hallux valgus” are actually statistics of artifacts (there is no doubt here), while DNA research is a complex procedure in which the possibility of accidental genetic contamination of the original tissue materials, or even their malicious substitution, cannot be ruled out.
Now, in order.
Fräulein Unbekant

I quote article “N” again:
"Fräulein Unbekant" ( Unbekannt– unknown) - this is how a girl saved from a suicide attempt was registered in the Berlin police report on February 17, 1920. She had no documents with her and refused to give her name. She had light brown hair and piercing gray eyes. She spoke with a pronounced Slavic accent, so in her personal file there was an entry “unknown Russian”. Since the spring of 1922, dozens of articles and books have been written about her. Anastasia (Anna) Tchaikovskaya, Anna Anderson, later Anna Manahan (after her husband's last name). These are the names of the same woman. The last name written on her gravestone is Anastasia Manahan. She died on February 12, 1984, but even after death, her fate haunts neither her friends nor her enemies. I did not set myself the task of writing another retelling of her biography with stories about her friends’ attempts to prove that she was the same Anastasia who escaped death in the basement of the Ipatiev House on the night of July 17, 1918. My task was to collect and analyze materials on this version, incredible at first glance. So, let's look again at the known facts and try to evaluate them from the standpoint of today.
That same evening, February 17, she was admitted to the Elisabeth Hospital on Lützowstrasse. At the end of March she was transferred to a neurological clinic in Daldorf with a diagnosis of “mental illness of a depressive nature,” where she lived for two years. In Dahldorf, when examined on March 30, she admitted that she had tried to commit suicide, but refused to give a reason or give any comments. During the examination, her weight was recorded - 50 kilograms, height - 158 centimeters. Upon examination, doctors discovered that she had given birth six months ago. For a girl “under the age of twenty,” this was an important circumstance. They saw numerous scars from lacerations on the patient’s chest and stomach. On the head behind the right ear there was a 3.5 cm long scar, deep enough for a finger to go into it, as well as a scar on the forehead at the very roots of the hair. On the foot of his right leg there was a characteristic scar from a perforating wound. It fully corresponded to the shape and size of the wounds inflicted by the bayonet of a Russian rifle. There are cracks in the upper jaw. The next day after the examination, she admitted to the doctor that she was afraid for her life: “She makes it clear that she does not want to identify herself for fear of persecution. The impression of restraint born of fear. More fear than restraint." The medical history also records that the patient has a congenital orthopedic foot disease hallux valgus of the third degree.
“On this matter, I sought advice from orthopedic doctors and it was not in vain.”

Here I interrupt the retelling of article “N” and return to the beginning of our note. Did engineer “N” himself fully appreciate the discovery he made?! However, let's continue the story.

“The disease discovered in the patient by the doctors of the clinic in Daldorf absolutely coincided with the congenital disease of Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova. As one of the orthopedists who consulted me put it: “It’s easier to find two girls of the same age with the same fingerprints than with signs of congenital hallux valgus.” The girls we are talking about also had the same height, foot size, hair and eye color, and portrait resemblance. From the medical record data it is clear that the traces of injuries to “Fräulein Unbekant” fully correspond to those that, according to the forensic investigator Tomashevsky, were inflicted on Anastasia in the basement of Ipatiev’s house. The scar on the forehead also matches. Anastasia Romanova had such a scar since childhood, so she is the only one of the daughters of Nicholas II who always wore her hair with bangs.
Opponents of Anastasia Tchaikovskaya, starting in March 1927, have been making attempts to pass her off as Franziska Shantskovskaya, a native of a peasant family (from East Prussia). From a medical point of view, this looks more than ridiculous. Franziska was five years older than Anastasia, taller, wore shoes four sizes larger, never gave birth to children and had no orthopedic foot diseases. In addition, Franziska Schanzkowska disappeared from home at a time when “Fräulein Unbekant” was already in the Elisabeth Hospital on Lützowstrasse.”

ANNA ANDERSON

Why did some members of the House of Romanov in Europe and their relatives from the royal dynasties of Germany turn out to be opposed to it almost immediately, in the early 1920s? I think there are three main reasons. Firstly, Anna Anderson spoke harshly about Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich (“he is a traitor”) - the same one who, soon after the abdication of Nicholas II, took his Guards crew away from Tsarskoye Selo and allegedly put on a red bow. Secondly, she unintentionally revealed a big state secret that concerned her mother’s brother (Empress Alexandra Feodorovna), her German uncle Ernie of Hesse (Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke Hesse-Darmstadt). Thirdly, Anna-Anastasia herself was in such a difficult physical and psychological condition (consequences of severe injuries received in the basement of Ipatiev’s house, and the very difficult previous two years of wandering) that communicating with her was not easy for anyone. There is an important fourth reason, but first things first.
In 1922, in the Russian Diaspora, the question of who would lead the dynasty was being decided for the place of the “Emperor in Exile.” The main contender was Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov. He, like most Russian emigrants, could not even imagine that the Bolshevik rule would last for seven long decades. Anastasia's appearance in Berlin in the summer of 1922 caused confusion and division of opinion among the monarchists. The subsequent information about the physical and mental ill health of the princess, and the presence of an heir to the throne who was born in an unequal marriage (either from a soldier, or from a lieutenant of peasant origin), all this did not contribute to her immediate recognition, not to mention the consideration of her candidacy to replace the head of the dynasty. Again I retell the article by engineer “N” (with some abbreviations):
“The Romanovs did not want to see God’s anointed peasant son, who was either in Romania or in Soviet Russia. By the time she met her relatives in 1925, Anastasia was seriously ill with tuberculosis. Her weight barely reached 33 kg. The people surrounding Anastasia believed that her days were numbered. And who besides the mother needed her “bastard”? [and she herself was not deceived about this - B.R.] But she survived and after meetings with Aunt Olya and other close people, she dreamed of meeting her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna. She was waiting for recognition from her family, but instead, in 1928, on the second day after the death of the Dowager Empress, several members of the Romanov dynasty publicly renounced her, declaring that she was an impostor. The insult led to a break in the relationship. Relations with my mother's relatives were also damaged. The reason turned out to be Anastasia’s naive story about the arrival of her uncle Ernie of Hesse to Russia in 1916. The visit was connected with the intentions of persuading Nicholas II to a separate peace with Germany [this failed, and upon leaving the Alexander Palace, Ernie even told his sister, Empress Alexandra: “There is no more Princess Sunshine” - that’s what all German relatives called Alix in her childhood - B.R.]. In the early twenties, this was still a state secret, and Ernie Hesse had no choice but to accuse Anastasia of slander.
The breakdown of relations with most of her relatives forced her to defend her rights in court. This is how forensic experts appeared in Anastasia’s life. The first graphological examination was made at the request of the Gessenskys in 1927. It was performed by an employee of the Institute of Graphology in Prisna, Dr. Lucy Weizsäcker. Comparing the handwriting on the recently written samples with the handwriting on the samples written by Anastasia during the life of Nicholas II, Lucy Weizsäcker came to the conclusion that the samples belong to the same person. In 1960, by decision of the Hamburg Court, graphologist Dr. Minna Becker was appointed as a graphological expert. Four years later, reporting on her work before the Supreme Court of Appeal in the Senate, the gray-haired Dr. Becker said: “I have never seen so many identical features in two texts written by different people" Another important note from the doctor is worth mentioning here. Handwriting samples in the form of texts written in German and Russian were provided for examination. In her report, speaking about the Russian texts, Ms. Anderson, Dr. Becker noted: “It seems as if she had again found herself in a familiar environment.” Due to the inability to compare fingerprints, anthropologists were brought in to the investigation. Their opinion was considered by the court as “probability close to certainty.” Research carried out in 1958 at the University of Mainz by Doctors Eickstedt and Klenke, and in 1965 by the founder of the German Anthropological Society, Professor Otto Rehe, led to the same result, namely:
1. Mrs. Anderson is not the Polish factory worker Franziska Schanckowska.
2. Mrs. Anderson is Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanova.
Their opponents pointed out the discrepancy between the shape of Anderson’s right ear and Anastasia Romanova’s ear, citing an examination done back in the twenties.
The last doubts of anthropologists were resolved by one of the most famous forensic experts in Germany, Dr. Moritz Furthmeier. In 1976, Dr. Furthmeyer discovered that, by an absurd accident, experts used a photograph of Dahldorf's patient, taken from an inverted negative, to compare the ears. That is, the right ear of Anastasia Romanova was compared with the left ear of “Fräulein Unbekant” and naturally received a negative result for identity. When comparing the same photograph of Anastasia with a photograph of Anderson (Tchaikovsky)'s right ear, Moritz Furthmeier obtained a match in seventeen anatomical positions. To recognize the identification in a West German court, the coincidence of five positions out of twelve was quite sufficient. Having corrected this error, he put an end to the debate among scientists about the identification of Anastasia. You and I, dear reader, can only guess what her fate would have been like had it not been for that fatal mistake. Even in the sixties, this error formed the basis of the decision of the Hamburg court, and then of the highest court of appeal in the Senate.”

Now I will give the floor to the American historian and writer Peter Kurt, whose book “Anastasia. The Riddle of Anna Anderson" (in Russian translation "Anastasia. The Riddle of the Grand Duchess"), according to many, is the best in the historiography of this riddle (and is wonderfully written). Peter Kurth knew Anna Anderson personally. This is what he wrote in the afterword to the Russian edition of his book:

“Truth is a snare; you can't have it without getting caught.
You can't catch her, she catches a person.
Søren Kirkegaard
Fiction must remain within the boundaries of the possible.
The truth is no.
Mark Twain

These quotes were sent to me by a friend in 1995, shortly after the British Home Office's Department of Forensic Sciences announced that mitochondrial DNA testing of "Anna Anderson" had conclusively proven that she was not Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. According to the conclusion of a team of British geneticists in Aldermaston, led by Dr Peter Gill, Ms Anderson's DNA does not match either the DNA of female skeletons recovered from a grave near Yekaterinburg in 1991 and allegedly belonging to the queen and her three daughters, nor with the DNA of Anastasia's maternal relatives and paternal line, residing in England and elsewhere. At the same time, a blood test of Karl Mauger, the great-nephew of missing factory worker Franziska Schanckowska, revealed a mitochondrial match, leading to the conclusion that Franziska and Anna Anderson are the same person. Subsequent tests in other laboratories looking at the same DNA led to the same conclusion.
... I knew Anna Anderson for more than ten years and was familiar with almost everyone who was involved in her struggle for recognition over the past quarter century: friends, lawyers, neighbors, journalists, historians, representatives of the Russian royal family and the royal families of Europe, Russian and European aristocracy - a wide circle of competent witnesses who, without hesitation, recognized her as the tsar’s daughter. My knowledge of her character, all the details of her case and, as it seems to me, probability and common sense - everything convinces me that she was a Russian Grand Duchess.
This belief of mine, although challenged (by DNA research), remains unshakable. Not being an expert, I cannot question Dr. Gill's results; if only these results had revealed that Ms. Anderson was not a member of the Romanov family, I might be able to accept them—if not easily now, then at least in time. However, no amount of scientific evidence or forensic evidence will convince me that Ms. Anderson and Franziska Schanckowska are the same person.
I categorically state that those who knew Anna Anderson, who lived with her for months and years, treated her and cared for her during her many illnesses, be it a doctor or a nurse, who observed her behavior, posture, demeanor, “They can’t believe that she was born in a village in East Prussia in 1896 and was the daughter and sister of beet farmers.”

RESCUING ANASTASIA

I will not tell here in detail the story of the rescue of the wounded but alive Anastasia on July 17, 1918 and the life story of Anna Anderson. There is evidence about the story of Anastasia’s rescue, given under oath in a German court, and the life story of Anna Anderson is described in detail in hundreds of publications and in dozens of books, of which the best, according to many, is the book by Peter Kurt. I will give here only a short list of reasons that do not allow Anastasia to be considered dead along with the entire Royal Family on the night of July 17, 1918:
- There is an eyewitness account who saw the wounded but alive Anastasia in a house on Voskresensky Prospekt in Yekaterinburg (almost opposite Ipatiev’s house) in the early morning of July 17, 1918; it was Heinrich Kleinbetzetl, a tailor from Vienna, an Austrian prisoner of war, who in the summer of 1918 worked in Yekaterinburg as an apprentice to the tailor Baudin. He saw her in Baudin's house in the early morning of July 17, a few hours after the brutal massacre in the basement of Ipatiev's house. It was brought by one of the guards (probably still from the previous more liberal guard composition - Yurovsky did not replace all the previous guards), - one of those few young guys who had long sympathized with girls, the Tsar's daughters;
- There is great confusion in the testimonies, reports and stories of the participants in this bloody massacre - even in different versions of the stories of the same participants;
- It is known that the “Reds” were looking for the missing Anastasia for several months after the murder of the Royal Family;
- It is known that one (or two?) women's corsets were not found. None of the “white” investigations answers all the questions, including the investigation of the Kolchak commission investigator Nikolai Sokolov;
- the archives of the Cheka-KGB-FSB about the murder of the Royal Family and what the security officers led by Yurovsky in 1919 (a year after the execution) and MGB officers (Beria’s department) did in the Koptyakovsky forest in 1946 have not yet been opened. All documents known so far about the execution of the Royal Family (including Yurovsky’s “Note”) were obtained from other state archives (not from the FSB archives).
Thus, summing up all of the above about the “death” of Anastasia, if all members of the Royal Family were killed, then why do we still not have answers to all these questions?

CONCLUSION

So, we can state the following:
1. Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova had congenital deformity of both feet “Hallux Valgus” (bursitis of the big toe). This can be seen very clearly not only in some photographs of the young Grand Duchess, but was confirmed after 1920 even by those people close to her (to Anastasia) who did not believe in the identity of Anna Anderson (for example, the Tsar’s younger sister, Olga Alexandrovna - and she is well knew the imperial children from their birth; this was also confirmed by Pierre Gilliard, the teacher of the royal children, who had been at court since 1905). This was precisely a congenital case of the disease. The nanny (of little Anastasia), Alexandra (Shura) Tegleva, also confirmed congenital bunions of Anastasia’s big toes.
2. Anna Anderson also had congenital deformity of both feet “Hallux Valgus” (bursitis of the big toe).
In addition to the diagnosis of German doctors (in Daldorf in 1920), the diagnosis of congenital “Hallux Valgus” was made to Anna Anderson (Anna Tchaikovskaya) also by the Russian doctor Sergei Mikhailovich Rudnev at the St. Mary's clinic in the summer of 1925 (Anna Tchaikovskaya-Anderson was there in serious condition , with tuberculosis infections): “I noticed a severe deformity on her right leg, obviously congenital: The thumb bends to the right, forming a swelling.” Rudnev also noted that “Hallux Valgus” was on both of her legs. (See Peter Kurt. - Anastasia. The Mystery of the Grand Duchess. M., Zakharova Publishing House, p. 99). Dr. Sergei Rudnev cured and saved her life in 1925. Anna Anderson called him “my kind Russian professor who saved my life.”
3. On July 27, 1925, the Gilliard couple arrived in Berlin. Once again: Shura Gilliard-Tegleva was Anastasia’s nanny in Russia. They visited a very sick Anna Anderson in the clinic. Shura Tegleva asked to show her the patient’s legs (feet). The blanket was carefully turned away, Shura exclaimed: “With her [with Anastasia] it was the same as here: the right leg was worse than the left” (see the book by Peter Kurt, p. 121)
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Now, I will give once again the medical statistics of “Hallux Valgus” (bursitis of the big toe) for Russia:
- “Hallux valgus” (HV) is present in 0.95% of the women examined;
- 89% of them have the first degree of HV (= 0.85% of the women examined);
- 1.6% of them have the third degree of HV (= 0.0152% of the examined women or 1: 6580);
- statistics congenital cases of “hallux valgus” (in modern Russia) is 8:142,000,000, or approximately 1:17,750,000!
We can assume that the statistics of congenital cases of “hallux valgus” in former Russia did not differ too much (even several times, 1: 10,000,000, or 1: 5,000,000). Thus, the probability that Anna Anderson was not Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova ranges from 1:5 million to 1:17 million.
It is also known that the statistics of congenital cases of this orthopedic disease in the West in the first half of the 20th century were also calculated in single cases for the entire orthopedic medical practice.
Thus, the very rare congenital deformity of the legs “hallux valgus” of Grand Duchess Anastasia and Anna Anderson puts an end to the tough (and sometimes cruel) debate between supporters and opponents of Anna Anderson.
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Engineer “N” (Vladimir Momot) published his article (“Gone with the Wind”) in February 2007 in the American newspaper “Panorama” (Los-Angeles, newspaper “Panorama”). He did a great job to restore the truth about Anna Anderson and the royal daughter Anastasia. It’s amazing how, for more than 80 years, no one thought to find out the medical statistics of hallux valgus foot deformity! Truly this story is reminiscent of the fairy tale about the glass slipper! It is probably no coincidence that it was Vladimir Momot who found it.
Now we can be completely and irrevocably sure that Anna Anderson and Grand Duchess Anastasia are one and the same person.

P.S. It remains to be found out whose remains were buried under the name of Grand Duchess Anastasia in St. Petersburg in July 1998 (however, there are doubts about other remains buried then), and whose remains were found in the summer of 2007 in the Koptyakovsky forest.
P.P.S. It is known that Anastasia gave birth to a son in the fall of 1919, somewhere on the border with Romania (at that time she was hiding from the Reds under the name Tchaikovskaya, after the name of the man who saved her and took her to Romania). What is the fate of this son? The story of Grand Duchess Anastasia is not over.