Anastasia Arrives in the United States - February 6, 1928
Anastasia was the only survivor when her family was murdered. She was the daughter of Nicholas II, and the family was all assassinated by Bolshevik soldiers in 1918. She is believed to have narrowly escaped being killed, but she claims her jaw was broken during the escape and she had come to New York City to have her jaw reset.
Many women had come forward, claiming to be Anastasia, because there was money reserved for her left by her father. Anastasia Tschaikovsky as she called herself, was the youngest daughter of Nicholas II. She was found in a canal in Berlin in 1920, and refused to tell who she was, as she thought her life was still in danger. Two years later she identified herself as Anastasia, the daughter of Nicholas II. She was committed to a mental institution for a period of time.
She did come over here to New York, and was welcomed by Gleb Botkin, who was the son of the Romanov's family doctor. He claimed to remember playing with Anastasia as a child.
But the story gets more complicated. After different types of investigations and testings, it appears that Anastasia may not have been our Anastasia that we are looking for, the missing daughter of Nicholas II of Russia. Is this the Anastasia we are looking for, or could it be someone else? For the full article on this go to: www.history.com/this-day-in-history/anastasia-arrives-in-the-united-states
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