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    On August 13, Anastacia announced that she would join Belgian singer Natalia Druyts for a joint tour, Natalia Meets Anastacia, for six arena shows performed at the Sportpaleis, Belgium. On August 17, Natalia and Anastacia recorded a collaborative single, " Burning Star ", which was released on September 17, 2010, to promote the concert series ...

  2. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастасия Николаевна Романова, romanized: Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova; 18 June [O.S. 5 June] 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

  3. After Nicholas II abdicated the throne on March 15, 1917, he and his family—his wife, Alexandra; son, Alexis; and four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia—were taken captive and eventually moved to a house in the Ural Mountains. In the cellar they and four of their servants were executed by a Bolshevik firing squad on July 17, 1918.

  4. Anastasia, grand duchess of Russia and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, last emperor of Russia. She was killed with the other members of her immediate family in 1918 following the October Revolution, but numerous women claimed to be the still-living Anastasia in the following years.

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    • Decades of Mystery
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    Anastasia, born on June 18, 1901, was the fourth and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Along with her older sisters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Maria, and Tatiana, as well as her younger brother Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, Anastasia was raised under fairly frugal conditions. Despite her family’s status, the children slept on simple ...

    Grigori Rasputinwas a Russian mystic who claimed to have healing powers, and Tsarina Alexandra often called upon him to pray for Alexei during his more debilitating periods. Although he held no formal role within the Russian Orthodox Church, Rasputin nevertheless had a good deal of influence with the tsarina, who credited his miraculous faith-heali...

    During World War I, the Tsarina and her two older daughters volunteered as Red Cross nurses. Anastasia and Maria were too young to join the ranks, so instead they visited wounded soldiers in the hospital new St. Petersburg. In February 1917, the Russian Revolution took place, with mobs protesting the food rationing that had been in place since the ...

    As revolutionaries approached the royal palace, the provisional government removed the Romanovs and sent them to Tobolsk, Siberia. In August 1917, the Romanovs arrived in Tobolsk by train, and along with their servants, were ensconced in the former Governor’s house. By all accounts, the family was not mistreated during their time in Tobolsk. The ch...

    In October 1917, Russia collapsed into full-scale civil war. The Romanovs’ Bolshevik captors—known as the Reds—had been negotiating for their exchange with the anti-Bolshevik side, the Whites, but talks had stalled. When the Whites reached Yekaterinburg, the royal family had vanished, and the rumor was that they had already been assassinated. Yakov...

    In the years following the execution of the Romanov family, conspiracy theories began to emerge. Beginning in 1920, numerous women came forward and claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. One of them, Eugenia Smith, wrote her “memoirs” as Anastasia, which included a lengthy description of how she had escaped her captors. Another, Nadezhda Vasily...

    "Case Closed: Famous Royals Suffered From Hemophilia."Science Magazine,American Association for the Advancement of Science, 8 Oct. 2009.
    Fowler, Rebecca J. "Anastasia: the Mystery Resolved." The Washington Post, 6 Oct. 1994.
    Katz, Brigit. "DNA Analysis Confirms Authenticity of Romanovs' Remains." Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2018.
    "Nicholas II and Family Canonized for 'Passion'." The New York Times, 15 Aug. 2000.
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  5. Apr 2, 2014 · (1901-1918) Who Was Anastasia Romanov? On the night of July 16-17, 1918, Anastasia and her family were executed in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Speculation arose as to whether she and her brother,...

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  7. Apr 5, 2020 · Who was Anastasia? What is the story behind those ghost-like characters who danced along to the iconic “Once Upon a December”? Anastasia was born Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, the youngest daughter and fourth child of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, on June 18, 1901.