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What happened to the Romanov's?
from a bridge into a canal in Berlin. Luckily, the police rescued her and brought her to a hospital. After gaining consciousness the woman claimed that she was Anastasia. Her physical appearance was similar to Anastasia’s but she could not speak a single word of Russian. Some thought she lost the Russian Language due to some mental illness. She asserted that she did not get shot in the basement, instead she was rescued by a guard and had traveled to Berlin to find relatives. This sounds ambiguous and media has done much to make us believe it was her. She knew many details about the Romanovs private life and was therefore believed. Even people who knew the Romanov family believed it was Anastasia. This girl has created much controversy and when she in died 1984, it seemed her identity would always be a mystery. However in 1991, archaeologists opened a burial pit in Yekaterinburg. Two of the royal children were found missing. One of them was Alexis and the other one was Anastasia. Russian forensic scientists spent a long time to reveal whether the bones of the missing children were there or not. In December 1994, they came out officially with the report. Anastasia was in the grave, and this could be concluded by analyzing small pieces of bone. Another peace of evidence came after Anna Anderson’s death in 1984, when her body had been cremated. A piece of intestine had been kept in a hospital where she once had an operation. Scientists took tests, trying to link her blood with that of the Romanovs, but they concluded it was not Anastasia. The DNA tests taken proved that Anna Anderson was really only a Polish peasant girl. Yet, back in the mine shaft they were not able to find the remains of Alexis and Maria. Of course people tried to imitate Alexis also, but as we know he suffered from hemophilia which should make it impossible for him to survive the gunshots. It was also reported that they had identified Nicholas, Alexandra, and the rest of the daughters.
Therefore, it can be concluded that no one survived the terrible deed ordered by Lenin. Nicholas II brought this fate upon himself when failing to satisfy the masses. The issue that was most frustrating was that the tsar could not stay away from World War I. The tsar’s abdication was totally spontaneous and it was hard to predict the Romanovs future in a problematic time like this was. However, they ended up in Urals (enemy land) and this served a prelude of what was going to happen. However, it is hard to believe that anyone of the Romanovs survived the basement. There is, basically too much evidence against it. The most famous example is, as stated before, the survival of Anastasia. The fact that she [next page]