Her name was Eugenia Drabrek Smetisko, commonly known as Eugenia Smith, but if you had asked her, she would have preferred to be identified as Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

So.had the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Gradually a number of miscellaneous retainers of the Tsaral family visited the young woman, some affirming and others denying that she is Anastasia.

The film was loosely based on the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the book The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (18 June 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra ...

The Broadway musical, based on the 1997 animated film, adapts the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who was rumored to have escaped and survived the execution of the ...