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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Berlin

The Berlin Asylum Patient Who Claimed to Be Grand Duchess Anastasia for Sixty-Three Years and Was Disproved by DNA Eleven Years After Her Death

Anna Anderson was pulled from a Berlin canal in February 1920 and claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, surviving daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. She maintained the claim through forty-five years of litigation and three biographies. DNA analysis in 1994 — three years after her 1984 cremation — identified her as the Polish factory worker Franziska Schanzkowska.

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The Coroner’s Report June 27, 2026 · Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg

The Russian Imperial Family of Seven Shot and Bayoneted in the Cellar of a Yekaterinburg Merchant's House at 1:30 a.m. on 17 July 1918

Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, their five children, the family doctor, and three servants were shot and bayoneted in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg at approximately 1:30 a.m. on 17 July 1918. The execution was ordered by the local Ural Soviet against the approaching Czechoslovak Legion. The bodies were not recovered for 73 years. The five identified Romanov bodies were reburied at the Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, in July 1998.

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