Anna Anderson was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra, was murdered along with her parents and siblings on 17 July 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but the location of her body was unknown until 2007.
Anderson in 1922
Photographs taken of Anna Anderson at Dalldorf Asylum after her suicide attempt in 1920.
A comparison on the side profiles of Anastasia Nikolaevna and Anna Anderson, created by Pierre Gilliard
Franziska Schanzkowska, c. 1913
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Photo, c. 1914
Grand Duchess Anastasia in 1904
Grand Duchess Anastasia in a formal portrait taken in 1906
From left to right: Maria, Anastasia, Alexei, Olga and Tatiana at the Gulf of Finland, 1908