While anyone who has stayed awake in history class knows that Anastasia, Rasputin, and Tsar Nicholas II were real people, fewer realize that Don Bluth’s Anastasia was only half based on them.

One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments has proven that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with ...

The execution of Nicholas II and his family gave rise to one of the most mysterious questions in Russian history Did Princess Anastasia manage to escape Anna Anderson spent her life trying to ...

and tells a layered story about Grand Duchess Anastasia, child of Czar Nicholas II, who possibly escaped before her royal family was executed. In an effort to get money from the Dowager Empress ...