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Following the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in Ekaterinburg on the night of 16/17 July 1918, a woman in Berlin claimed to be the tsar’s youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. This article is not an attempt to prove or disprove the claims of the woman, who was later known as Anna Anderson and died in the United States in 1984. The aim of this article is to draw together...