![]() The bodies had in fact been found in secret in 1979 but it was not until after the fall of the Soviet Union that the political climate allowed their burial place to be revealed.īut two of the children were missing from that grave - Alexey and Maria. ![]() The fondness for conspiracy theories that this fed into and an insistence by claimants persisted (there have been several false Anastasias as well as Alexeys in particular), even after the remains of most of the family and their four servants were excavated from a shallow grave in 1991. ![]() People became so fascinated by a woman who was later proved conclusively to be a fraud that they lost sight of the real Romanovs. Her longstanding campaign for recognition, which sparked a whole written and filmed mythology, was fought in the European courts for decades, ensuring that the Romanov story regularly resurfaced in the press, though for all the wrong reasons. As the first claimant to be Anastasia, she said she had miraculously escaped the bloodbath at the Ipatiev House. ![]() It began with the emergence of Anna Anderson in Berlin in 1920. ![]()
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