Frances Welch
An extraordinary story of tenacity and intrigue, and the deep human urge to salvage hope from tragedy.,Did the seventeen-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the massacre of the Russian imperial family in 1918? Over the years, the possibility that the youngest of the tsarâ€™s four daughters might have escaped the killings has provided rich spawning ground for claimants. By far the best known of these was Anna Anderson, a mysterious young woman who appeared in Berlin in 1920. Anna attracted a bizarre coterie of supportersâ€”some of whom had known the grand duchess as a childâ€”who risked life and limb, and often all their savings, in a desperate attempt to prove that Anastasia had, after all, survived. But who was Anna Andersonâ€”and just how did she manage to convince so many people that she was the real Anastasia? Frances Welchâ€™s ,A Romanov Fantasy, is a tragic comedy in the best Russian traditionâ€”a compelling, eerie, and frequently hilarious study of discipleship, snobbery, and life after death.
Biography,History,Nonfiction,Cultural,Russia,Russian History,Romanovs
A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson