EP 62: Anna Anderson, the Anastasia Imposter

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Anna Anderson, probably the most well-known Grand Duchess Anastasia impostor. After the Romanov family was executed by firing squad in 1918, it was widely believed that two of the bodies (more specifically, the body of the Romanov’s only son, Alexei, and the body of the youngest daughter, Anastasia) had not been located which led many to believe that they had survived the massacre. In the following years, dozens of people came forward claiming to be surviving Romanov family members. The most famous of which was a woman named Anna Anderson who, in 1920, was institutionalized in a Berlin mental hospital following a suicide attempt. She was known around the hospital as “Miss Unknown'' because no one could determine her identity. But in March of 1922, she came forward with claims that she was indeed the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

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