Unfortunately, a civil war could not be prevented. Anastasia and her family were then exiled to the Ural Mountains and placed under house arrest. In March of 1917 as soldiers launched a mutiny and began seizing royal property, Nicholas II agreed to abdicate the throne in hopes of preventing a Russian civil war. The tight-knit Romanov family lived peacefully at Tsarskoe Palace until Nicholas II generated increasing public hostility during World War I. Anastasia and Maria were looked after by a governess, while their older sisters were cared for by their mother's lady-in-waiting. As she grew older, Anastasia was assigned a Swiss tutor. In her younger years, Anastasia received her education from her mother, who taught the girl spelling and prayers.
Anastasia's parents married in late 1894, shortly after her grandfather, Tsar Alexander III, died of kidney disease and her father inherited the throne.Īnastasia had four siblings: three older sisters named Olga, Tatiana and Maria, and a younger brother named Alexei, who was heir to the throne. Her father, Nicholas II, was Russia's final tsar, and part of the Romanov dynasty that had ruled the country for three centuries. Anastasia's mother was Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, also known as Alexandra Feodorovna, who became known as Empress Alexandra after her marriage. Petersburg formerly called Peterhof - on June 18, 1901. Early LifeĪnastasia was born Anastasia Nikolaevna (or Anastasiya Nikolayevna) in Petrodvorets, Russia - a town near St. A 2007 DNA test of a second grave identified her and her brother's bodies. In 1991, a forensic study identified the bodies of her family members and servants, but not hers or Alexei's. Speculation arose as to whether she and her brother, Alexei Nikolaevich, might have survived.
On the night of July 16-17, 1918, Anastasia and her family were executed in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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