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One of the Stock Unsolved Mysteries of the twentieth century, until it was solved in 2007 with a definite "no". Following the events of Red October, the abdicated Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family were exiled to the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg. On July 17, 1918, with the anti-communist White Army closing in on the city, the former Tsar, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children — Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei — were all executed by Bolshevik soldiers. Or were they? For many years, some people insisted that the Tsar's youngest daughter, then-seventeen-year-old Anastasia, survived and escaped. (Spoiler alert: Yes, they were killed. Yes, that included Anastasia - whose body is either one of the three women buried with the former Tsar, or the woman found buried with Alexei, much later.) Why the focus on Anastasia and not another of the Tsar's five children? In the Soviet Union, in fact, the daughter believed to have survived was generally either Tatiana or Maria rather than Anastasia; there were also some lesser-known rumors that Tsarevich Alexei might have also survived - after all, his body had never been found at this point - but these never gained much traction due to the fact that Alexei had a severe form of hemophilia that made it exceptionally unlikely that he could have survived being woundednote You're probably thinking "I bet he was related to Queen Victoria" after seeing the word hemophilia and you'd be right, Alexei was her great-grandson, on top of which Alexei was unable to walk at the time of the shooting (due to a previous injury that was exacerbated by his hemophilia) and therefore would have had no way to even try to take cover. However, in 1920, two years after the execution of the Romanovs, a mysterious Slavic-accented woman turned up in Berlin. Suicidal and apparently amnesiac, she was admitted to a local mental hospital. History generally refers to this woman by the adopted name of Anna Anderson. Within a couple years, she would claim to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Anderson gained much publicity through a lengthy legal battle in which she sought to establish her identity as Anastasia in order to claim a share of the remaining Romanov fortune. Public opinion sided overwhelmingly with Anderson due to the inherent romance of a Rags to Royalty story. The case was finally ended in 1970, with the inconclusive ruling that there was no proof either way, but nevertheless denying Anderson the Romanov riches. When Anderson died in 1984, still claiming that she was the lost Grand Duchess, there was still no way to be certain what the truth was. After all, DNA testing wasn't a thing at the time, so the argument for both sides ultimately rested on hearsay. And besides, the site of the Romanovs' murder was located deep behind the Iron Curtain, hidden from the world by the Soviet Union's secretive government, so who could say for sure what had happened there? Then came the end of the Cold War, and the Romanov burial site was revealed to the world. At first, it seemed there was hope for the legend, since the bodies of Tsarevich Alexei and one of his sisters were missing from the grave. Meanwhile, however, science marched on with advent of DNA testing, which finally proved that Anna Anderson not only had absolutely no relation to the Imperial family, but also was, in fact, not even Russian. It is widely believed that Anderson was actually a Polish woman named Franziska Schanzkowska, a missing factory worker with a history of mental illness. She eventually married an American man and spent most of the rest of her life in and out of facilities, suggesting the impersonation could have been a Napoleon Delusion of some kind. In 1998, a team of scientists were able to extract some mitochondrial DNA from intestinal tissue she’d had removed to test it against both the Romanovs' closest living maternal relative, the Duke of Edinburgh and Schanzkowska‘s great-nephew, with the latter being a match. Later testing would more closely match her DNA to the great nephew’s. In 2007, another grave was discovered in Yekaterinburg, this one containing the remains of Alexei and his remaining sister, so at long last, all the Romanov children were accounted for. The last Romanov bodies were confirmed through DNA testing in 2009, establishing once and for all that the entire Romanov family, including Grand Duchess Anastasia, was killed in Yekaterinburg by Bolshevik guns on July 17, 1918. Case closed. During the 89 years it took to get there, however, the premise that Anastasia had survived became a perennial fixture of Western popular culture. This trope is technically an example of Dated History, but it shows every sign of continuing, at least in works which are either exploring her survival as a deliberate counterfactual or taking significant liberties with historical fact anyway. For a historical mystery that hasn't yet been solved by science or new information, see The Fate of the Princes in the Tower. Coincidentally, the name Anastasia means "resurrection". This will often be mentioned in works employing this trope. Also, the proper Russian pronunciation of her name is, "ah-nah-stah-SEE-yah," but many works will use the modern Anglo pronunciation of, "an-nah-STAY-zhah." Subtrope of Lost Orphaned Royalty, which covers the general case of the last remaining member of a royal line being hidden away in secret. Any examples not specifically connected to the 20th-century Romanovs should go there. Examples |
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The DS game The Hardy Boys: Treasure on the Tracks has the final twist of the story involve this. Borrowing from the 1997 animated film, Anastasia had survived and traveled to France, where she married and had a daughter. That daughter later became a grandmother to one of the passengers on the Royal Express: Isabelle. What's more, the game depicts Anastasia still alive and meeting her great-grandchild at the end of the game. | |
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In The Shadow Strikes, Anastasia has survived and is on a campaign of revenge. | |
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The Death of Russia: Referenced in what became of the town of Shaitanka, which during the collapse of Siberia into anarchy during the Second Russian Civil War turned into a microstate called the "Kingdom of Russia" led by an old woman who claimed to be Anastasia, despite not being nearly old enough, and had somehow convinced the starving town to go along with the delusion. On another note, with what has become of Russia by the end of the war, there is little if any hope for the remains of Nicolas II and his family to be found like they were in our world, likely giving this trope more of a shelf life. |
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In Dance in the Vampire Bund, Rasputin the Mad Monk was a vampire who rescued Anastasia from being killed by the soldiers, but then turned her into a vampire and made her his slave. She eventually escaped him and took on the alias Natasha. Eventually, she resurfaces and helps the heroes kill him. | |
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Addressed in Lupin III: From Siberia With Love; she managed to escape execution and fled to America. It becomes relevant to the story when its revealed Judy is her granddaughter and wants the gold Lupin and Rasputon stole to rebuild Russia. | |
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The 1996 HBO Made-for-TV Movie Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, references this theory in its epilogue, which shows the Romanov family's execution, but ends just before Anastasia and Alexei are shot, leaving them to an Uncertain Doom. | |
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The subject of an In Search of... episode, naturally. It included an interview with Anna Anderson, who was still living at the time. | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, there is no doubt about it for people who can join the dots: (Olga) Anastacia Romanoff is alive and well and lives in Ankh-Morpork. She is in direct line of descent to the last acknowledged Tsar of Rodinia, a state which crumbled into lots of smaller regions and nations amidst much acrimony. Catching magic at the age of twelve and covertly educated as a Witch by the local Baba Yaga, she ran away to Lancre to pursue a different destiny, much to her noble father's anger. Today, she is in her thirties and commands the Ankh-Morpork City Air Watch. This is all she ever wanted to do and all the Empire she needs. Anyone wanting her to become Little Mother to a New Rodinia will get very short shrift and she prefers to go her own way and make her own destiny. | |
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Anastasia, a 2016 Broadway musical, this one based on the Don Bluth film (so just to be clear, this is a play based on a movie which was a remake of another movie which was itself based on a play). It removes the supernatural elements, with a Chekist officer taking Rasputin's place as the antagonist, so Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection doesn't apply here for once. | |
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The fourth Hearts of Iron game is a clear aversion - while a woman calling herself Anastasia Romanov will show up to claim the Throne of Poland should one reject all other candidates twicenote in-universe, Poland can pursue an elective monarchy; said candidates include a one of the Habsburgs, Friedrich Christian (who was the preferred candidate of the Central Powers), King Michael I of Romania, and a Georgian Prince; if one rejects Anastasia, they'll start over the game makes it very clear that it's actually the aforementioned Anna Anderson, with many text prompts even having her status doubted in universe. Since it's very possible for Poland to actually defeat the Soviet Union, the true fate of Anastasia can be discovered if the player has met certain conditionsnote namely, having Wojtek the Bear as a commander - doing so allows for either Wojtek to be crowned king of Poland, or the player can bury the evidence. | |
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The third part of Assassin's Creed: Chronicles is set in Russia after the October Revolution, and not only does Anastasia survive, she becomes a Player Character, gets Historical Badass Upgrade and fights and kills her way to freedom taking on the identity of Anna Anderson as a Historical In-Joke. Notable for being the first 21st Century work to revive this trope well after the facts had corrected it finally. Given that the series deals heavily with the Ancient Conspiracy of the Templar Order having rewritten history to suit their needs and hide the truth, it makes sense that the series would explore the urban legend as yet another coverup. | |
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In the Pathfinder adventure Rasputin Must Die (part of the Reign of Winter adventure path) Anastasia is the daughter of Rasputin, and thus the granddaughter of the ancient witch Baba Yaga. She was indeed shot dead, but was resurrected by Rasputin's magic. She can potentially leave Earth for Golarion in the company of the PCs, and at the end of the adventure path she can claim the throne of Irrisen. Second Edition makes this option canon. | |
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Chicken Police: It's speculated throughout that Natasha Catzenko may in fact be the in-universe equivalent of Princess Anastasia, the sole survivor of a famously massacred foreign royal family who escaped to Clawville under a new identity. This would then explain where she came from prior to meeting Madame Zaiwass. | |
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In the Canadian sketch show The Red Green Show, one of Hap Shaughnessy's many outrageous claims was that Anastasia not only survived, but was in fact his own mother, who, after fleeing Russia, immigrated to Canada. He even spun a survival story out of whole cloth shortly after proclaiming it. | |
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The Frozen (2013) AU fic "Grains of Sand in the Passage of Time" depicts an AU that reinvents Anna as Anastasia, who escaped from captivity and hid on the farm owned by Elsa and her grandmother. | |
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The 1956 film Anastasia, starring Ingrid Bergman in her comeback from six years of exile from U.S. cinema and Yul Brynner, is a straight adaptation of the Marcelle Maurette play (see the "Theatre" section for more information). | |
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In the Werewolf: The Apocalypse sourcebook Rage Across Russia, Anastasia is said to have escaped with the help of her werewolf relatives. | |
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In Semper Ad Meliora, it turns out that Anastasia did survive, and ended up emigrating to Britannia, where she joined the military forces. And as many people guessed, Anastasia is now known as Amastasia li Brittania, and is Cornelia and Euphemia's mother. | |
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At the end of one Case Closed movie, The Last Wizard of the Century, the protagonists find her as the solution of this film's mystery (Actually not Anastasia, but Maria). | |
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This was the subject on the episode of Mystery Hunters. Araya goes to Virginia to investigate about Anna Anderson, while Christina goes to Russia to find out if she did survive. | |
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Fate/Grand Order's depiction of Anastasia averts the trope. She was gunned down with the rest of her family, and the only mention of the survival theories is almost a footnote in the story, where Sherlock Holmes mentions the rumours about her survival but DNA testing has made those theories disappear. However, she was recorded in the Throne of Heroes as a Heroic Spirit, meaning that she can be summoned as a Caster-class Servant, due to the Romanov family being mages in Nasuverse and the last thing she did before dying was make a contract with an elemental called Viy. However, she's the only one of her immediate family recorded in the Throne, which causes her a bit of angst since there's no hope of her meeting any of them again as Servants. | |
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Discussed in Anastasia Krupnik, as the titular character learns that she was named after the historical Anastasia from her parents and promptly declares that she must be the missing Romanov. Her dreams are quickly dashed when her parents point out that as a 10-year-old in 1979, she is far too young to be that Anastasia. | |
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American Horror Story: Apocalypse plays with the legend in "Fire and Reign", positing that Anastasia was actually a witch who tried (and failed) to use her magic to save her family from their demise. | |
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In the Doctor Who spin-off audio "Last of the Romanovs", the Doctor and his companions meet the Tsar and Anastasia the day before their execution, and the Doctor's granddaughter Susan attempts to teach Anastasia a meditative technique that may allow her to escape by feigning death at a crucial moment. | |
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Alluded to in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, where the Soviet Premier is Alexander Romanov. And to put any guesses that his surname is a coincidence aside, when President Dugan is confronting him over Soviet aggression against the continental United States, Romanov states that he's no mere puppet leader appointed by Dugan, stating that "We Romanovs have a legacy to consider." In this timeline where Adolf Hitler was removed and Germany was a part of the western Allies united against the Soviet war machine, it's possible that Anastasia survived Red October and one of her descendants became a Bolshevik. | |
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In the film Anastasia: Once Upon a Time, Anastasia initially escapes her family's capture when Rasputin opens a portal to 1988, but after a brainwashed Rasputin nearly captures her, Anastasia is able to go back and save her family, the film concluding with Anastasia reuniting with her 1980s friend Megan after growing old and becoming a grandmother. | |
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Suzanne Weyn's young adult novel The Diamond Secret from the Once Upon a Time collection (a series of YA retellings of popular fairy tales and legends, no relation to the TV series) retells the standard Marcelle Maurette-inspired plotline of two conmen trying to pass off an amnesiac girl as Anastasia, only to find that she just might be a Genuine Imposter. | |
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Anastasia is a playable party member in Shadow Hearts: Covenant, which takes place in a very fictionalized alternate World War One. After the main cast defeat the demon-possessed Rasputin, Anastasia joins them to help protect Russia and the rest of the world. The mystery isn't directly referenced, but in the good ending playable characters are scattered to different parts of the timeline, unable to return back to their time, meaning that from the perspective of her contemporaries Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov disappeared mysteriously, and would be unaccounted for in whatever happens to the rest of her family. An ending still shows her alongside Kurando, alive and happy, but in an unspecified location and time period. | |
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Bad News Ballet #5, Blubberina, has the gang introduced to—and later obsessed with—Miss Delacorte's "magical" Amber Stone of Anastasia, which Miss Delacorte says saved Anastasia from dying because when the Bolsheviks broke into the royal palace and murdered the Romanovs, the bullet meant for her heart glanced off the amber stone and she was the only one who lived. | |
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The New Order Last Days Of Europe offers an interesting variation with Tsarevich Alexei (Anastasia's brother). Sergey Taboritsky, possible leader of the Komi Republic, fervently believes that Alexei survived, but will only return when Russia is sufficiently purified. If Taboritsky unifies West Russia, he initiates a reign of terror that rivals or even exceeds what the victorious Nazis have done in Europe. In reality, Alexei is very dead, making this an aversion. Eventually, if he is not defeated by another unifier, Taboritsky realizes that Alexei is never coming back and all his killing was for nothing. This epiphany kills him, and his Holy Russian Empire collapses. A further subversion comes from the "After Midnight" update. After Taboritsky dies and the Holy Russian Empire collapses, one of the factions that emerges is led by a man who claims to be Alexei returned. In reality, he's Michał Goleniewski, a Polish-born NKVD agent using the Alexei persona to try and restore some kind of sanity to Russia. |
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In Fire Ice a spinoff of Dirk Pitt Adventures the story shows that while the Romanov men were executed, the deaths of the women were faked due to loyalists smuggling them to an escape ship (as detailed in the prologue). When the communists chased down and destroyed that ship, Anastasia herself is killed, but one of her sisters is saved by the dying captain. | |
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History of the World Part II, being ran on Rule of Funny, spares an Anastasia who is basically a digital influencer a century too early. | |
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The Royal Diaries: The epilogue of Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess mentions the legend, as the book was released before the last two bodies were found. However, it also notes in the author's notes that whether or not Anastasia would've turned out differently from her parents is a mystery for the ages because of how suddenly her life ended, leaning definitively towards the answer of "No". | |
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