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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
was the youngest daughter of
Tsar Nicholas II
, the last sovereign of
Imperial Russia
, and his wife,
Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna
. At age 17, she was executed with her family in an
extrajudicial killing
by members of the
Cheka
– the
Bolshevik
secret police
– on July 17, 1918. Rumors have abounded that she survived, and multiple women have claimed to be her. However, this possibility has been conclusively disproven.
Photograph: Boissonnas and Eggler; restoration:
Chris Woodrich
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