Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna.

Anastasia was a younger sister of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria, and was an elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. She died in an extrajudicial killing by forces of the Bolshevik secret police, Cheka, with her family on July 17, 1918.

Persistent rumors of her possible escape have circulated since her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. The mass grave near Ekaterinburg which held the remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three daughters was revealed in 1991, but the bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and one of his sisters—either Anastasia or her older sister Maria—were not discovered there.

The 1997 film Anastasiais an animated musical adaptation of the story of Anastasia’s fictional escape from Russia and her subsequent quest for recognition.