Word: anastasias
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...COMRADE NICHOLAS Romanov was nasty and brutish. In 1918 the last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...
...most notorious of these claimants was "Anna Anderson" (subject of a 1956 film starring Ingrid Bergman), who persuaded a few surviving Romanovs, including the ex-Czar's first cousin Grand Duke Andrew, that she was Nicholas' youngest daughter Anastasia. A majority of the family were not convinced: their skepticism was vindicated last year when Anderson, who died in 1984, was exposed as an imposter by DNA testing...
Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family will be reburied next February in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg. The family was slain by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg in 1918, and their remains (minus those of son Alexei and daughter Anastasia) were exhumed in 1992; DNA tests later confirmed the imperial identities...
Former heavyweight champ and ex-convict Mike Tyson made a successful return as Peter McNeeley's corner called it quits after 1 min. 29 sec. of the first round. -By Kathleen Adams, Nick Catoggio, Lina Lofaro, Jeffery C. Rubin, Anastasia Toufexis and Sidney Urquhart
...fans were found dead at the campground, possibly from drug-related causes. And a concert near Indianapolis was canceled after a crowd of unruly fans without tickets had to be quelled by riot police. --By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Nick Catoggio, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Alain L. Sanders, Anastasia Toufexis and Sidney Urquhart