Born on the 18th of June, 1901. The Grand Duchess Anastasia was the fourth daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. She had three older sisters and one younger brother, Anastasia was a well known trickster and troublemaker and she stood out amongst her family her kind nature and wild heart showed during World War I helping out the injured soldiers by keeping them company, through reading and games. Her personality is why she was believed to have been the survivor of the Romanov family line.
The Romanovs were the rulers of the Russian Empire from 1613 until the end of Nicholas II’s reign, in July, 1918. Russia was unstable and the 304 years of the Romanov Dynasty ended in the grips of a civil war, The conflict between the revolutionary Bolshevik government and the Anti-Bolshevik forces became their undoing. In August 1917 the new Russian Government feared
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Coble set out to put names to two missing bodies found in a forest off the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg called Koptyaki forest. This place was found after state files of the Romanov execution that became available after 70 years of hiding. Falsetti and his team of scientist the information they needed. In graves Similar fragments of pottery used to carry acid were found, matching fragments found in the original grave just a few metres from the second. Along with these fragments, three bullets had been found, identified to have been shot at the same time as bullets in the first grave, although these were shot from a different gun. They were able to identify the bones as Anastasia and Alexei connecting them to Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, the great-nephew of the last Tsarina, Yarovsky original plan was to burn the bodies two at a time but as dawn was breaking, in a panic they dug a new pit decapitated the remaining nine bodies, covering them with acid, planks and