Was Anastasia's body ever found?

Answer 1

Because no one was sure what had happened to the Tsar's children, folks began to speculate whether some of the family members had survived. Most notably, a young woman named Anna Anderson surfaced in Germany in 1920, after surviving a suicide attempt.

Although she did not speak Russian, the young woman seemed to know a great deal about Russian protocol and she looked like the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia. Many people thought she was Anastasia.

Anna Anderson died an old woman, in 1984. She was cremated, which initially made DNA testing virtually impossible. She always claimed she was Anastasia, although recent tests say she was not.

Answer 2

They announced a couple of months ago that the last two missing bodies have been found. The charred bone fragments of Alexei and Marie were discovered not far from where the others were buried. They also confirmed that Anastasia was the girl in the mass grave with the others. There was some doubt as to whether it was Marie or Anastasia in there, but they have definitely identified all the bodies now. Anna Anderson was proved to be Polish, not Russian, and unrelated to the Romanovs.

Answer 3

The Romanov grave has been found. All but two bodies were there. The forensic reports say the body of Alexei was definitely not there and one of the girls was missing, but whether it was Anastasia or her sister, they aren't sure.

According to the guards on the execution and burial detail, they burned two of the dead--the boy and one of the girls--on top of the grave to keep it from being found. There's no evidence yet to show two bodies were burned. There could have been ONE body burned, TWO bodies burned, or NO bodies burned. Chances are two were burned, but who knows?

Anastasia would be very elderly now if she still lives. I think it is safe to say she is dead.

Answer 4

Anastasia was killed with the other members of her immediate family in a cellar where they had been confined by the Bolsheviks following the October Revolution. But after the executions several women outside Russia claimed her identity, making her the subject of periodic popular conjecture and publicity. Each claimed to have survived the execution and managed to escape from Russia, and some claimed to be heir to the Romanov fortune held in Swiss banks. Perhaps the most famous of these claimants was a woman who called herself Anna Anderson (and whom critics alleged to be one Franziska Schanzkowska, a Pole), who married an American history professor, J.E. Manahan, in 1968 and lived her final years in Virginia, U.S., dying in 1984. In the years up to 1970 she sought to be established as the legal heir to the Romanov fortune; but, in that year, West German courts finally rejected her suit and awarded a remaining portion of the imperial fortune to the duchess of Mecklenberg. In the 1990s, genetic tests undertaken on tissues from Anderson and on the exhumed remains of the royal family established no connection between her and the Romanovs and instead supported her identification with Schanzkowska.

The story of a surviving Anastasia provided the germ of a French play, Anastasia, written by Marcelle-Maurette (1909-72) and first produced in 1954. An American film version appeared in 1956, with Ingrid Bergman winning an Academy Award for her title role.

Answer 5

Hope u are talking about the Grand Duchhess...

No. no one from Czar Nicholas' clan was found agan. she is believd to be murdered by the Bolshevik forces in 1918. Women who claimed to be Anastasia all turned out to be fake.

The most famous was Anna Anderson. many beleived her to be the true Grand Duchhess but in 1994 a DNA test confirmed that she had no relation to the Royal family. her identity remains controversial. she died in 1984.

Answer 6

From reading some sources, people have said that it was her older sister Maria who was the one that was missing.

Either way, they probably still haven't found her.

Answer 7

I don't think so, which is why many women born around 1900 cliamed to be her.

Answer 8

yes..in Russia buried in a pit with the rest of her family

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia
http://www.rong-chang.com/namesdict/firsta/Anastasia.htm
http://thedent.com/anastasia.html