- Speculation was rife that Anastasia escaped the revolution with her grandmother and supposedly resurfaced in Paris in the 1960s. Although unfounded, this theory provided the inspiration for Danielle Steel's Zoya (1995).
- Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (1868 - 1918) and Tsarina Alexandra (1872 - 1918).
- Younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga (1895 - 1918), Grand Duchess Tatiana (1897 - 1918), Grand Duchess Maria (1899 - 1918) and older sister of Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (1904- 1918).
- Her remains and that of her family and servants were found in 1991. In 2007 the remains of her brother Tsarevitch Alexei and sister Grand Duchess Maria were found 20 miles away.
- Throughout her life was the favorite of her grandmother, Marie Feodorovna.
- Young Anastasia was a vivacious and energetic child, described as short and inclined to be chubby, with blue eyes and strawberry-blonde hair. Margaretta Eagar, a governess to the four grand duchesses, said one person commented that the toddler Anastasia had the greatest personal charm of any child she had ever seen.
- However, even in the last months of her life, she found ways to enjoy herself. She and other members of the household performed plays for the enjoyment of their parents and others in the spring of 1918. Anastasia's performance made everyone howl with laughter, according to her tutor Sydney Gibbes.
- Other lesser known claimants were Nadezhda Ivanovna Vasilyeva and Eugenia Smith. Two young women claiming to be Anastasia and her sister Maria were taken in by a priest in the Ural Mountains in 1919 where they lived as nuns until their deaths in 1964. They were buried under the names Anastasia and Maria Nikolaevna.
- Throughout her life was the favorite of her grandmother, Marie Feodorovna.
- Granddaughter of Czar Aleksandr III (1845 - 1894), the Dowager Empress Czarina Maria Fyodorovna (1847-1928), Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837-1892) and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843 - 1878).
- Niece of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869-1870), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1899), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875-1960), Grand Duke Michael (1878 - 1918), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882-1960), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950 ), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864-1918), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866-1953), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868-1937), Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870-1873) and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874-1878).
- Great-granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II (1818 - 1881), Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) (1824 - 1880), Prince Albert (1819-1861) and Queen Victoria (1819-1901).
- 1st Cousin of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895 - 1970), Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia ( (1897 - 1981), Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia (1898 - 1968)(, Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia ((1900 - 1974), Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (1901 - 1980), Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (1902 - 1978), Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (1907 - 1989), George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov, Tikhon Nikolaevich (1917-1993), Guri Nikolaevich (1919-1984), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885 - 1969), Louise Mountbatten (1889 - 1965, )George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven ((1892 - 1938), Louis Mountbatten (1900 - 1979), Prince Waldemar Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich Viktor Heinrich of Prussia ((1889-1945), Prince Wilhelm Viktor Karl August Heinrich Sigismund of Prussia (1896-1978), Prince Heinrich Viktor Ludwig Friedrich of Prussia (1900-1904), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895-1903), stillborn, (1900-1900), Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906-1937) and Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908-1968).
- Second cousin of Irina Yusupova (1915 -1983), Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia ( 1919 - 2000), Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia 1920 - 2008), Prince Andrew Romanov (b. 1923), Olga Romanoff (b. 1950), Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia (1924 - 2008), Princess Irene Feodorovna ( (b. 1934), Prince Nikita Romanov (1923 - 2007), Prince Alexander Romanov ( (1929 - 2002), Princess Nadejda Dmitrievna (1933 - 2002), Prince Rostislav Romanov (1938-1999), Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich ((1945 - 2000), Princess Marina Vasilievna (b. 1940), Olga Kulikovsky (b. 1964), Xenia Kulikovsky (b. 1941), Leonid Kulikovsky (1943-2015), Alexander Kulikovsky (b. 1948), Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905 - 1981), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906-1969), Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911 - 1937), Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914 - 2001), Prince Philip (b. 1921), stillborn (1925-1925), Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten (1917 - 1988), David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919 - 1970), Patricia Mountbatten (1924 - 2017), Pamela Hicks (b. 1929), Princess Barbara of Prussia (1920 - 1994) and Prince Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad of Prussia (1924 - 2013).
- Third cousin of Countess Xenia Nikolaevna Sheremeteva (b. 1942), Prince Alexis Andreevich Romanov (b. 1953), Prince Peter Andreevich Romanov (b. 1961), Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanov (b. 1963), Nicholas Mathew (b. 1976), Francis Mathew (b. 1979), Alexandra Mathew (b. 1981), Thomas Mathew (1987 - 1989), Prince Michael Mihailovich (1959 - 2001), Joelle Soulas (b. 1966), Alain Pelle (b. 1956), Prince Fedor Nikitich Romanoff (1974-2007), Théodore Nikitich de Russie (1974-2007,), Penelope Allen (b. 1953), Marina Allen (b. 1955), Alexandra Allen (b. 1958 ), Princess Stephena Rostislavovna Romanov (b. 1963), Princess Alexandra Rostislavovna Romanov (b. 1983), Prince Rostislav Romanov (b. 1985), Prince Nikita Rostislavovich Romanov (b. 1987), Nicolas Romanov (b. 1968), Daniel Romanov (b. 1972), Heather Romanov (b. 1976), Tatiana Beadleston (b. 1968) Alexandra Beadleston (b. 1970) Nicholas Beadleston (b. 1971) Natalie Beadleston (b. 1976), Peter Cordeiro (b. 1994), Paul Kulikovsky (b.1960), Vivian Larsen ( b. 1962), Peter Larsen (b. 1966), Vibeke Nielsen (b. 1981), Stillborn (1933-1933), Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1935 - 2004), Princess Beatrix Alice Marie Melita Margarete of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1936 - 1997), Prince Georg Andreas Heinrich of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1938), Prince Rupprecht Sigismund Philipp Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1944 - 1978), Prince Albrecht Wolfgang Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1944 - 1992), Princess Margarita of Baden (1932 - 2013), Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (b. 1933), Prince Ludwig Wilhelm Georg Ernst Christoph of Baden (b. 1937), Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine (1931 - 1937), Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1933-1937), Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine (1936 - 1939), Stillborn (1937-1937), Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (1933 - 2011), Princess Dorothea of Hesse (b. 1934), Prince Karl of Hesse (b. 1937), Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (b. 1939), Princess Clarissa Alice of Hesse (b. 1944), Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover (b. 1947 - 1981), Prince Georg of Hanover (b. 1949), Princess Friederike of Hanover ((b. 1954), King Charles III (b. 1948), Princess Anne (b. 1950), Prince Andrew (b. 1960) and Prince Edward (b. 1964).
- 4th cousin of Tatiana Sfiris (b. 1968), Princess Natasha Catherine Romanov (b. 1993), Thomas (b. 2004) Lucy (b. 2006) Isabella Florence (b. 2011), Tatiana Alexandra (b. 1986), Prince Rostislav Romanov (born 1985), Princess Cécile Marita Dorothea of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1967), Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1970), Princess Xenia Margarita Anne of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 8 July 1972), Prince Michael Galitzine (b. 1993), Princess Victoria Galitzine (b. 1984)., Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia (b. 1959), Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (b. 1958), Prince William of Wales (b. 1982), Prince Harry (b. 1984), Peter Phillips (b. 1977), Zara Tindall (b. 1981), Princess Beatrice (b.1988), Princess Eugenie (b. 1990), Lady Louise Windsor (b.2003) and James, Viscount Severn (b. 2007).
- Fifth Cousin Victoria Marie Esmé Margarita de Silva (b. 1991), Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, b. 1993), Prince George of Wales (b. 2013), Princess Charlotte of Wales (b. 2015), Prince Louis of Cambridge (b. 2018 ), Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (b. 2019), Savannah Anne Kathleen Phillips (b. 2010), Isla Elizabeth Phillips (b. 2012), Mia Grace Tindall (b. 2014) and Lena Elizabeth Tindall (b. 2018).
- Had some German ancestry.
- Second cousin, once removed of Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia, Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia and Prince George of Greece.
- Had two dogs: Shvybzik, a Pomeranian (-1915) and Jimmy, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, originally belonged to Tatiana, (-1918).
- 6th Cousin Louis Ivan Welf Otto Hooper (b. 2007), Konstantin Georg Erik Falk (b. 2007), Leopold Welf Christian Falk, (b. 2009).
- While often described as gifted and bright, she was never interested in the restrictions of the school room, according to her tutors Pierre Gilliard and Sydney Gibbes. Gibbes, Gilliard, and ladies-in-waiting Lili Dehn and Anna Vyrubova described Anastasia as lively, mischievous, and a gifted actress. Her sharp, witty remarks sometimes hit sensitive spots.
- The purported survival of Anastasia has been the subject of cinema, made-for-television films, and a Broadway musical. The earliest, made in 1928, was called Clothes Make the Woman. The story followed a woman who turns up to play the part of a rescued Anastasia for a Hollywood film, and ends up being recognized by the Russian soldier who originally rescued her from her would-be assassins.
- Other lesser known claimants were Nadezhda Ivanovna Vasilyeva and Eugenia Smith.[61] Two young women claiming to be Anastasia and her sister Maria were taken in by a priest in the Ural Mountains in 1919 where they lived as nuns until their deaths in 1964. They were buried under the names Anastasia and Maria Nikolaevna.
- However, even in the last months of her life, she found ways to enjoy herself. She and other members of the household performed plays for the enjoyment of their parents and others in the spring of 1918. Anastasia's performance made everyone howl with laughter, according to her tutor Sydney Gibbes.[.
- Young Anastasia was a vivacious and energetic child, described as short and inclined to be chubby, with blue eyes[11] and blonde hair.[12] Margaretta Eagar, a governess to the four grand duchesses, said one person commented that the toddler Anastasia had the greatest personal charm of any child she had ever seen.[6].
- Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden told of her sad last glimpse of Anastasia: "Once, standing on some steps at the door of a house close by, I saw a hand and a pink-sleeved arm opening the topmost pane. According to the blouse the hand must have belonged either to the Grand Duchess Marie or Anastasia. They could not see me through their windows, and this was to be the last glimpse that I was to have of any of them!"
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