Word: frau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some months the Dowager Tsarina Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, and her 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...
Last week "Frau von Tschaikovski," who has been suffering from a well nigh complete nervous breakdown, was reported to be nearing convalescence. She declared that she lost consciousness after the volley which killed her family and wounded her, and awoke to find herself jolting along in the peasant cart of one Tschaikovski, a Red guard, who later told her that he was a member of the firing squad but had subsequently covered her with a pile of rags, while the corpses of the murdered Romanoffs were dragged away to be destroyed by acid...
Anastasia and Tschaikovski then - runs the story - fled to Bucharest, Roumanian capital, where she bore him a son. Tschaikovski was later shot by Bolshevist agents; and "Frau von Tschaikovski" declares that she placed the child in an orphan asylum near Bucharest when she was brought to Berlin by her brother...
...Dowager Tsarina Dagmar's agents are rumored to have traced the child. The Grand Duchess Anastasia's nurse Sascha, said recently after minutely examining the body of "Frau von Tchaikovski:" "This is the body of Anastasia. I know her body as well as I do my own. Anastasia had a brown mole on her back - her birthmark. That mark is there. Anastasia had flat feet. This girl's feet are flat. They are the same shape as Anastasia...
...Frau von Tchaikovski" as their former mistress on the basis of certain birthmarks. Dr. Rudness, sometime physician to Nicholas II, now a refugee at Berlin, admitted to correspondents that he had examined the mysterious "Frau," but refused to affirm or deny that she is the Grand Duchess...