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Anastasia Anastasia Black and white portrait of the Russian royal family in 1914. Seated left to right: Marie, Queen Alexandra, Czar Nicholas II, Anastasia, and Alexei. Standing behind are Olga and Tatiana. Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia
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Anastasia Anastasia, c. 1908–10.

Anastasia

Russian grand duchess
Also known as: Anastasiya Nikolayevna
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Anastasia (born June 18 [June 5, Old Style], 1901, Peterhof, near St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg) was the grand duchess of Russia and the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia. 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. (Although there is some uncertainty over whether the family was killed on...

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