Anastasia Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, c. 1914
Born	(1901-06-18)June 18, 1901 Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	July 17, 1918(1918-07-17) (aged 17) Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR
Burial	July 17, 1998 Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Full name Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
House	Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father	Nicholas II of Russia
Mother	Alexandra Feodorovna
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастасия Николаевна Романова [Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova]; June 18 [O.S. June 5] 1901 – July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

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

Persistent rumors of her possible escape circulated after her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. The mass grave near Yekaterinburg which held the remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three of their daughters was revealed in 1991, and the bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and the remaining daughter—either Anastasia or her older sister Maria—were discovered in 2007. Her possible survival has been conclusively disproved. Forensic analysis and DNA testing confirmed that the remains are those of the imperial family, showing that all four grand duchesses were killed in 1918. Several women falsely claimed to have been Anastasia; the best known impostor is Anna Anderson. Anderson's body was cremated upon her death in 1984, but DNA testing in 1994 on available pieces of Anderson's tissue and hair showed no relation to the DNA of the Romanov family.