The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery

by Greg King, Penny Wilson

Overview

The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished materials and unexplored sources to probe the most enduring Romanov mystery of all: the fate of the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose remains were not buried with those of her family, and her identification with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the missing Grand Duchess.

• Penetrates the intriguing mysteries surrounding the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the true fate of his daughter, Anastasia
• Reveals previously unknown details of Anderson's life as Franziska Schanzkowska
• Explains how Anderson acquired her knowledge, why people believed her claim, and how it transformed Anastasia into a cultural phenomenon
• Draws on unpublished materials including Schanzkowska family memoirs, legal papers, and exclusive access to private documents of the British and Hessian Royal Families
• Includes 75 photographs, dozens published here for the first time
• Written by the authors of The Fate of the Romanovs

Refuting long-accepted evidence in the Anderson case, The Resurrection of the Romanovs finally explodes the greatest royal mystery of the twentieth-century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470444986
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	269,038
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

GREG KING is the author of The Court of the Last Tsar; Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria during Her Diamond Jubilee Year; and A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York.

PENNY WILSON is a Russian historian and Romanov scholar. She coauthored The Fate of the Romanovs with Greg King.

Table of Contents

Authors' Note ix

Acknowledgments xi

Cast of Principal Characters xvii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Anastasia

1 "My God, What a Disappointment!" 15

2 The Imp 28

3 Into the Abyss 40

4 "How Little I Suspected That I Was Never to See Them Again" 57

Part 2 Anna Anderson

5 Resurrection 77

6 Fraulein Unbekannt 90

7 A Story of Escape 100

8 A Ghost from the Past? 109

9 Encounter in Berlin 124

10 "If the Imperial House of Russia Wants to Let One of Its Own Die in the Gutter ..." 141

11 "A Sort of Weird Charm" 152

12 The Making of a Myth 162

13 "A Gruesome Impression" 177

14 A Tale of Two Books 191

15 Émigrés at War 208

16 The Trials 220

17 "How Shall I Tell You Who I Am?" 239

Part 3 Franziska

18 The Fairy Tale Crumbles 259

19 A Girl from the Provinces 267

20 The Polish Factory Worker 278

21 The Myth Unravels 290

22 Into the Pages of History 305

Epilogue 319

Notes 335

Bibliography 379

Index 383