The legend of the “lost princess” from Russia haunted Europe and America for most of the 20th century. So, when a woman known as Anna Anderson emerged from a Berlin asylum in 1920 claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov—the “lost princess” or the youngest daughter of Russia’s last tsar—her story seemed too miraculous to ignore.
According to Anderson, who eventually made her way to America, she had survived the massacre that killed her family in 1918 and wandered through Europe in secret before reappearing to reclaim her identity.
