The REAL Anastasia Romanov

In 1918 the last Tsar of Russia and his whole family were killed in secret, and nobody could find the bodies. Two years later a young woman was pulled out of a canal in Berlin, and for sixty years she said she was Grand Duchess Anastasia, the Tsar's youngest daughter. Relatives argued over her face, a detective named her, a German court spent 32 years on her case, and Hollywood made her famous. Then the graves were found, and DNA gave the answer. Did Anastasia escape? Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:48 The Prankster 2:48 The Locked House 5:07 Miss Unknown 7:31 The Detective 9:57 The Grave 12:19 The Lab Where sources disagree we say so: the canal rescue is dated 17 or 27 February 1920; and the DNA cannot tell whether the sister found with Alexei in 2007 is Maria or Anastasia (Russian experts say Maria). The grenade accident is the detective's account. Sources: Coble et al., "Mystery Solved: The Identification of the Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis", PLOS ONE (2009): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... Stoneking et al., "Establishing the identity of Anna Anderson Manahan", Nature Genetics (1995): https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/... Science Museum Group, "The forensic investigation into the Romanov mystery" (Peter Gill): https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/the... British Library, "Victims and pretenders: the murder of the Romanovs": https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts... Smithsonian Magazine, the Romanovs' private photographs: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... Legal Tribune Online, on the 1970 "Anastasia" ruling (German): https://www.lto.de/recht/feuilleton/f... Wikipedia: Anna Anderson, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, Murder of the Romanov family, Ipatiev House, Gleb Botkin, Pierre Gilliard, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, Alexander Avdonin Our video on Rasputin tells the story of the man who came before all this. #anastasia #romanov #history