Russian Grand Duchess, youngest daughter of 
Nicholas II. During the Russian Revolution 
she was presumed shot with her parents by the 
Bolsheviks after the Revolution of 1917, but 
it has been alleged that Anastasia escaped. 
Those who claimed her identity included Anna 
Anderson (1902-1984). Alleged by some 
detractors to be a Pole, Franziska 
Schanzkowski, she was rescued from a Berlin 
canal 1920. The German Federal Supreme Court 
found no proof of her claim 1970.