The Mystery of Anna Anderson
17th July 2005 (which just went past us) marked the anniversary when all of the Russian Royal family members were assassinated (or attempted to be assassinated). In the year 1918, Tzar Nicholas II and his nearest family members (wife, 3 daughters and son) were assassinated (or attempted to be assassinated) in the basement of Ipatiev house in Yekaterinburg.
A woman surfaced in Germany within a few years after the execution, claiming to be Anastasia Romanov, one of the 3 daughters of the Tzar. She was named as Anna Anderson The next 65 years were spent by her (and her supporters) trying to prove that she was Anastasia and the (remanant) royal family trying to prove otherwise. She knew too much about the royal family, so she ought to have been the Grand Duchess but the final DNA evidence proved otherwise. Here are some details on that evidence.
If she really was a the Grand Duchess it was a fairy tale all gone bad. She escaped the execution, got married to a palace guard who was killed in a few years and spent years in German court trying to prove her identity. She came so close to proving her identity but then WW2 broke all chances. Germany was divided and papers related to court cases went missing. She got married to a certain Manahan, settled in VA and died in the 1980s. If she wasn't the Grand Duchess, then yes it served her right. But how does anyone know???
There are people who question the DNA evidence and there are people who accept it. Just like .. earlier there were people who analyzed what she knew about the Romanov family and took the two different sides. So what really is the truth.
Unfortunately, it seems there isn't any way of finding the truth in this world. What is the nature of truth? It is the state of affairs as they actually are. Now how does anyone find what the truth is? By observation. However, all observations are imperfect since the very process of observing requires belief on what you are observing. The 5 senses may be giving bad input to you. You may be in a matrix being fed data by computers ...
Anyway, the Romanov family was finally laid to rest
A woman surfaced in Germany within a few years after the execution, claiming to be Anastasia Romanov, one of the 3 daughters of the Tzar. She was named as Anna Anderson The next 65 years were spent by her (and her supporters) trying to prove that she was Anastasia and the (remanant) royal family trying to prove otherwise. She knew too much about the royal family, so she ought to have been the Grand Duchess but the final DNA evidence proved otherwise. Here are some details on that evidence.
If she really was a the Grand Duchess it was a fairy tale all gone bad. She escaped the execution, got married to a palace guard who was killed in a few years and spent years in German court trying to prove her identity. She came so close to proving her identity but then WW2 broke all chances. Germany was divided and papers related to court cases went missing. She got married to a certain Manahan, settled in VA and died in the 1980s. If she wasn't the Grand Duchess, then yes it served her right. But how does anyone know???
There are people who question the DNA evidence and there are people who accept it. Just like .. earlier there were people who analyzed what she knew about the Romanov family and took the two different sides. So what really is the truth.
Unfortunately, it seems there isn't any way of finding the truth in this world. What is the nature of truth? It is the state of affairs as they actually are. Now how does anyone find what the truth is? By observation. However, all observations are imperfect since the very process of observing requires belief on what you are observing. The 5 senses may be giving bad input to you. You may be in a matrix being fed data by computers ...
Anyway, the Romanov family was finally laid to rest
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