Word: anastasia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nephew King Christian X of Denmark have employed agents to investigate the possibility that a woman with bullet scars upon her scalp and abdomen, who is being cared for in a Berlin sanitarium under the name "Frau von Tschaikovski" (TIME, Jan. 11), may actually be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, reputedly murdered with her father Tsar Nicholas II and the rest of the imperial family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg. (July...
...Anastasia. At Berlin the Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...
...year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Tsar and Tsarina, perish with her foully murdered parents and relations at Ekaterinburg? Has or has not the real Grand Duchess, now 24 years old been discovered in Berlin? These are questions that were being elucidated in the German metropolis, not without much excitement among the emigres...
Born. To William B. Leeds and Mrs. Leeds (Princess Xenia of Russia), a daughter (seven and one-half pounds); in Manhattan. He is the 'son of the late Princess Anastasia of Greece (who was the wife of William B. Leeds, tin-plate king, before she married Prince Christopher); she is the daughter of Grand Duke George, second cousin of the late Tsar...