Anastasia: The Legend of Anna Anderson



On the night of Feb. 17, 1920, a woman jumped off a bridge in Berlin. She was rescued and taken to a hospital. She wouldn't tell the people who she was. So, she was sent to a mental asylum. At the mental asylum, somebody there reconized her as Grand Duchess Tatiana. She didn't say she wasn't her, but soon said,"I never said I was her." She was given a list of the czar's daughter's names. She croosed off all of them except for Anastasia's name. From then on, some people believed her, and others didn't believe that she was Anastasia. This woman, in the 1920s, started to call herself Anna Anderson. Anna has answered many question correctly about "her" childhood. She has went to court to prove to other people that she was Anastasia Romanov. The judge ruled - not that she wasn't Anastasia - but that she hadn't proven that she was. Anna Anderson died on February 4, 1984. Recent DNA testings on Anna Anderson's hair have confirmed that she was not the czarina Anastasia Romanov. In fact, they have identified her as Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish woman. Some people still argue that the hair sample was not that of Anna Anderson, but of someone else.

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