Anastasia

In Search Of... "Anastasia" (1978)

This episode of the series takes a look at the death of Anastasia and her family as well as the possibility that she actually lived. The episode tries to determine if the young woman who claimed to be Anastasia was really here or if there was something else going on. This here turned out to be another fascinating entry for the series as it offers up a pretty darn good mystery. It seems the majority of the people believe that Anastasia died early in life but the evidence presented here is rather striking to say the least. The interviews are quite good and watching the supposed real Anatasia was interesting as well.

Episode: A-

Now famous episode gives a detailed account of Anna Anderson, an eccentric old woman who maintained for years that she was in fact the only surviving member of Czar Nicholas II's family, the grand duchess Anastasia, who was reported executed along with the rest of her family during the Russian revolution following WWI(Famously portrayed in the 1956 film with Ingrid Bergman) Found destitute and amnesiac, she became the center of a fierce court battle over her potential inheritance. Anna herself(at the time of recording) seems almost indifferent to the truth, pushed on instead by her husband. She would die a few years later, and DNA evidence would later disprove her claim. Unusual but most interesting account.