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.
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
The House of Romanov was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after Anastasia Romanovna married Ivan the Terrible, the first crowned tsar of all Russia. Nicholas II and his immediate family were executed in 1918, but there are still living descendants.
A 16th-century residence of the Yuryev-Zakharyin boyars in Zaryadye, near the Kremlin
A crowd at the Ipatiev Monastery imploring Mikhail Romanov's mother to let him go to Moscow and become their tsar (Illumination from a book dated 1673).
Peter the Great (1672–1725)