I remember seeing an "Unsolved Mysteries" show back in the late 80's or early 90"s. I was always fascinated by this case. When the graves of the family were finally found there was only a brief mention in the news media. Such a sad end. I think everybody wanted to have at least one person survive that massacre.
I think that's a large part of the myth of a Grand Duchess who survived. Why the most "popular" pretender was Anastasia is a mystery in itself, but yes, people desperately wanted to believe that SOMEONE survived that horror.
I remember when I was in high school in the early 70’s, we were studying the Bolshevik Revolution in 1:10:58 world history when our teacher told us that there was a lady living in Charlottesville who claimed to be Anatasia. For us it was even more fascinating because we were only an hour away from Charlottesville.
Canadian retired psychiatric nurse here. Anna Anderson is fascinating. Whatever her diagnosis, it is apparent she lived a very difficult life before she wound up in a Berlin river and was rescued. The later hoarding seems very natural for someone who suffered so many losses in her life. She never could feel secure.
From descriptions of her behavior, she sounds pretty borderline. And I've been diagnosed with BPD myself, so I mean no disrespect. Anderson clearly had a very troubled life, including speculation that her relationship with her father was, um, complicated.
I’d like to recommend John Boyne’s 2009 novel “The House of Special Purpose.” Don’t want to give any spoilers, but it offers a fascinating look at the last days of the Romanovs, especially Anastasia.
They left out the part about how the family lived lavishly and ate well, while the Russian people were starving and suffering. Also the people knew rasputin was a wolf in sheep's clothing, and the queen was so brainwashed by the creep, along with alexander, and the people suffered. Alexander was a poor ruler, and made so many bad decisions. The people were angry with them, and the bolsheviks were even more incensed. I was always interested in Anastasia, and thought that no matter how bad her father ran the country, they didn't deserve the execution they received. IT is amazing that in 1918, people still believed you had to kill off any heir, or worry about the heir reclaiming the throne. This is still interesting, and people will always wonder, did anyone live. G-d bless.
I should have added that more lives in the millions were lost to starvation, and execution by lennon and stalin. The death's in the gulag by stalin were in the number of 20+ million death's. Unfortunately putin is of the same crazy mindset.
There's a 1986 miniseries w/Amy Irving as Anna Anderson that's very good- has a great cast w/Omar Sharif, Claire Bloom, Olivia deHavilland, Rex Harrison and a very young Christian Bale as Alexi , in one of his first roles.
I remember seeing an "Unsolved Mysteries" show back in the late 80's or early 90"s. I was always fascinated by this case. When the graves of the family were finally found there was only a brief mention in the news media. Such a sad end. I think everybody wanted to have at least one person survive that massacre.
I think that's a large part of the myth of a Grand Duchess who survived. Why the most "popular" pretender was Anastasia is a mystery in itself, but yes, people desperately wanted to believe that SOMEONE survived that horror.
I remember when I was in high school in the early 70’s, we were studying the Bolshevik Revolution in 1:10:58 world history when our teacher told us that there was a lady living in Charlottesville who claimed to be Anatasia. For us it was even more fascinating because we were only an hour away from Charlottesville.
Canadian retired psychiatric nurse here. Anna Anderson is fascinating. Whatever her diagnosis, it is apparent she lived a very difficult life before she wound up in a Berlin river and was rescued. The later hoarding seems very natural for someone who suffered so many losses in her life. She never could feel secure.
From descriptions of her behavior, she sounds pretty borderline. And I've been diagnosed with BPD myself, so I mean no disrespect. Anderson clearly had a very troubled life, including speculation that her relationship with her father was, um, complicated.
I’d like to recommend John Boyne’s 2009 novel “The House of Special Purpose.” Don’t want to give any spoilers, but it offers a fascinating look at the last days of the Romanovs, especially Anastasia.
They left out the part about how the family lived lavishly and ate well, while the Russian people were starving and suffering. Also the people knew rasputin was a wolf in sheep's clothing, and the queen was so brainwashed by the creep, along with alexander, and the people suffered. Alexander was a poor ruler, and made so many bad decisions. The people were angry with them, and the bolsheviks were even more incensed. I was always interested in Anastasia, and thought that no matter how bad her father ran the country, they didn't deserve the execution they received. IT is amazing that in 1918, people still believed you had to kill off any heir, or worry about the heir reclaiming the throne. This is still interesting, and people will always wonder, did anyone live. G-d bless.
I should have added that more lives in the millions were lost to starvation, and execution by lennon and stalin. The death's in the gulag by stalin were in the number of 20+ million death's. Unfortunately putin is of the same crazy mindset.
There's a 1986 miniseries w/Amy Irving as Anna Anderson that's very good- has a great cast w/Omar Sharif, Claire Bloom, Olivia deHavilland, Rex Harrison and a very young Christian Bale as Alexi , in one of his first roles.
Don't forget, the Czar also received bad advice from his either incompetent, or corrupt, advisors in his government.
As “expert” as you appear to be-though anonymous-Alexandra was the wife and Nicholas was the Tsar.
Nicholas wasn't a bad guy. What happened to him and his family is an abomination.
Your giving a warning about the 17 year-old Anastasia, but not the 12 year-old Alexei who was sick with hemophilia. Yep, I got it.
Great story. Great work once again. 👍✌️
Very interesting, but Grigori Rasputin was not a monk.
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Royalty is disgusting.
The idea that by accident of birth someone is better than another.
You would have made a fine Bolshevik.
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Both the Russians and French solved their royalty problems.