Anastasia Romanov: Finding The Lost Princess

Yay thy thanks for the Spotify

Yes, definitely would listen to the podcasts!

Anna Anderson was princess she l knew all family secrets all palace

I love him

I don't like it when people read other people's questions 4 viewers questions during a podcast. I like the format you have words the script and they're very in-depth. I have almost no patience to sit and listen other people's questions.

Once upon a December...

Considering some of the movie's dark tones, I suppose the depressing nature of the story was hinted at. I love dark and tragic stories though, which is probably why the animated movie was so mesmerising to me, to begin with.

Then theres the musical Anastasia...

@@TrafalgarD.Shambles lord I hated that

Hi Ami!!

Mitchell Johnson don’t feel bad man Anastasia wasn’t one of the missing bodies in 2007 two of the missing bone fragments are found one is comfermed to be the prince and the other one is neither Anastasia or Maria but i likely belive that bone came from Maria because i still believe Anastasia survived

@@edwarddon9711 She's more than likely long dead of old age, even if that body wasn't hers. Either way you look at it, the Fairy Tale is over.

@@edwarddon9711 I think you misunderstood the evidence. While they could not be sure which sister it was in the 2007 discovery they did know that all the bodies discovered where the Romanov's including the original find. The question thus is not if any of them was alive but if Anastasia was in the original grave or in the 2007 one.

Edward Don No, they confirmed its Anastasia.... they were able to get enough DNA out of the born fragments and tested it..... the Grand Duchess either died in the cellar, the truck, or the woods

@@Hyde_Hill it was maria and alexei. Anastasia was in the grave with their parents.

Yes being bayonetted to death must be agonising beyond belief.

Prussian Potato nah not really they were bastards deserved it

12 12 even the kids?

@@user-by4nm3jf2k If you think the the Romanovs deserved to be killed you're either a Communist or a really stupid person one

Imagine struggling to get anything to eat and there are some idiots in command of you that eat caviar for breakfast and wear jewels all the time. All that while sending you into a certain death.

Yeah I wish I could go back in time and save them

@@Jio_W I hate to burst your bubble, but there will be disastrous repercussions if you tamper with the fabrics of time.

@@flopsyrailwayproductions1434 lol

@@flopsyrailwayproductions1434 well itll be for the better

@@colbycraig1623 I'm confused, is it what I or @Jiovanny Williams said about what being for the better?

I always learned they had a 300 year dynasty

I mean. There was a time in 1762 when the direct line of the Romanovs died out with Tsarina Elizaveta. So the next successor was Tsar Peter III, who was a minor German Prince. Thus began the reign of the House of Holstein-Gotterp-Romanov, which would mean that the specific line ruled for 155ish years. But the entire line is still considered the House of Romanov. But thought that was interesting to point out.

The "Russian" rulers after Empress Catherine the Great were all Germans. So basically the real Russians lasted on the throne for 100 years.

@@SvrWxArchive1807 Peter III was the son of Ana Petrovna, Peter the Greats daughter. That makes him also a legit Romanov

@@chickenjoelnuggito7316 all the Russian Tsars that succeed Catherine (up to Nicholas II) were decedent's od Catherine's son Paul I. Paul who succeeded Catherine was half German and half Russian. That doesn't make him German

@@esteban20969564
Dude, you can't blame an entire race for something that happened 100s of years ago by a minority party. That's gay. Remember, many Russians wanted her to live.

That's bc the Russians were all drunk

@@frogglen6350 100s?

Outrage for events that you know little about is pretty silly but seems like all it takes is some kind of "well it was on tv!" to get outraged these days. Because of course the internet and tv never lie. Abraham Lincoln told me so.

Russians don't even care that they get sent to gulag why would they even care about a film

The Romanovs were but out of life

They were slaughtered.

Romnovs were executed cause of their crimes against the people

@@dimitrisergei1637 if not executed they would have been used as propaganda when the white army which was close by would have captured them which would continue the bloody civil war killing more millions and thousands of men women and children.

@@zurdddtk3025 Because millions of men, women and children weren't killed later on by the Commies in Russia alone, right? Go ahead and make me laugh some more please.

hahahahah lol but keep in mind to not call her just Duchess because the title Duchess is different than Grand Duchess. Grand Duchess is translated as Grand Princess. That is because she is the daughter of an Emperor, so that means she doesn't have to bow to the daughter of a King

Jaddie Mannie lol ok

😂

Bet his stories beat the hell outta Creepy Pasta!

Imagine like if you woke up and he was just standing over you 'Trouble Sleeping Child' - Rasputin

They actually loved him to the end lol. I think I heard the girls actually kept a picture of him in a locket when they were imprisoned in that house. The Queen was totally brainwashed by him.

Same as communism. Only been established a few months and they are off killing children. How anybody pursues this ideology is a complete mystery to me..

Kate Mwariri he definitely did something awful behind closed doors

Good luck walking out

Most people are. Just not usually the famous ones. Few souls are on their first lives.

@@ladykoiwolfe Why do you say that?

And once in a while they may be right!

Willa Wolfendøttr yes you can always tell who’s on their first few lives though they act ignorant and their obsessed with MONEY and hurt anyone to get it not realizing they sabotaging their selves

🤣🤣🤣

Rasputín was the family dog

Richie Tozier It’s not even that funny. Tf

And first selfie

I used to sing this with my whole heart

I agree. There were many differences, but I think that people wanted so much for her to be alive that they saw what they wanted to see. A very sad story all around.

@Irose-No. She was a young woman who dreamed of being a princess. But what a life she had! That awful factory explosion left a lasting impression on her. How horrible it must have been! She had a lot of knowledge (and was also wrong about some things) because people, deliberately or not, were supplying her with information about the Romanovs and their lives. She was a smart woman and absorbed a lot of what people said to her. No one, I think, could ever make up such a fascinating story.

Lyndi Williams More a young Emma/Hermione?

Well she does look like Anastasia as she is Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna (1860-1921). But she does not look like the Anastasia who was the daughter of Nichoals II.

Miss unknown really did not look the same at all. There are way too many differences

GeorgiaGirl93 Technically he is isn't wrong as 300 is over 100 years.

I'm not very well versed in the Czar reign of Russia but as soon as I heard 100 years I knew it was wrong haha.

Toby Elliott I know he’s technically not wrong, but I am a HUGE fan of the Romanovs and I just couldn’t let that slide. And those pictures of “Anastasia” that he was showing of the women standing with a tiara on, the ones that were in sequence with Alexei at the beginning and the end, were not her.

Yeah I thought that sounded super short - I always thought of the Romanovs as being a pretty successful dynasty - as far as longevity is concerned anyway - obviously not the "end game" so to speak.
I watched a whole multi-hour documentary on the Romanovs (I think it's called The Romanovs and freely available on YT) - seems like a weird thing to get wrong lol, surely of all the points in this story one might want to fact check...

@@jessthehuman I may be off by a year plus/minus, but I heard in another Romanov historical video the reign lasted exactly 318 years. At any rate it was several centuries, not one.

Ther are still 20 years apart... Keep that in mind.

@@elicrowleyycontreras1135 still basic features dont change eyes lips chin etc completely different

And thats why the family wasnt giving up no money they did feel it was her

Ikr!😂

@@user-dn4ou7io1f You have to understand that her family and friends were clearly desperate

My only problem with it is that Rasputin and Anya needed more one on one time before the big battle

RIP Alexi 😔

@@Michael-hb4wc he was a brat but no kid deserves to die

@@immaniyaren7850 I was wishing him peace in death.

Not only that but it was rumored that all the children suffered from hemophilia to some degree (inherited from mothers side, passed down by queen Victoria no less)

Exactly.

Tell that to Black Widow.

Do masculine and feminine suffixes apply a subject's gender of the possessive pronoun and not just possessive nouns in Russian? Just curious.

but it's her last name, from her father.

Hi Jeejoo I believe in all Slavic languages everything must agree
For example when you say in serbo-Croatian
Little Girl- Mala devojka
It’s like how the Romance languages are to an extent.... I hope someone can explain this better then me

Hi Jeejoo would you kindly rephrase your question? English is obviously not my first language and I have a hard time understanding your question

In one of my upcoming videos, titled An LMS Patriot Class Act 2, which I plan to release on the 104th anniversiary of Anastasia Romanov's death, I'd have her spirit possess a blue 1984 Dodge Shelby Charger that would bhave the engine hotwired to the point where she would only play 1950's songs, and would serve as one of two secondary antagonists (alongside Ronald Conktip), who I plan to share that role with.

That's awesome! As a fellow writer, I've also wanted to write alternative versions of historical figures and events using my own characters and timeline!

Awesome and good luck with that ❤

Surplus History watch faux much? They want a govnt close to other western developed countries with universal healthcare, free tertiary education and liberal democracy.

comunist causing innocent deads, what are the odds....

@Surplus History
It's obvious you have never been anywhere near a college student, or a college. You're just mindlessly parroting the lines fed to you...don't you have a brain of your own?

As are all communists... and socialists...

Well, the Romanov were kinda cunts so you know

and coming from a russian (royal and deeply spiritual) family they most likely fasted wednesday and fridays and over half of the year they gave up meat and dairy , so maybe that fact has been twisted

@@letmeinyourwindow88 exactly. But that's what many orthodox people do.

THIS. I was rolling my eyes at that whole segment.

I heard too that Olga's love interest (a soldier who fell for in hospital) had even offered to kill Rasputin himself to stop the danger he was bringing to the family as far as their standing with the ppl.
Edit: they fell in love while she was caring for him when he was wounded.

" I don't know where you're getting some of these facts about her being vegetarian. Alexandra was vegetarian." Rather than insinuate that the "facts" are disingenuous, why don't you pose a question?
"I don't recall ever coming across Anastasia advocating for vegetarianism." Why would a child in a royal family advocate for anything? Advocating seems almost distinctly and predominately American.
"...seemed to have any awareness." Your comments are riddled with speculation. You might do well to ask more questions - at least, that's one of the primary ways I arrive at conclusions. DaVinci did pretty well with it also.

Miss Joonie B films same I like to think that Anastasia survived because if she were to come out as Anastasia than she would obviously be killed

@@marieshenk1091 She definitely didn't survive.

Fairy tales are of course easier to accept than brutal reality. It were the Soviets themselves that actually helped to spread those rumors by stating that although former Tsar Nicolai II. had been executed, the rest of the family was brought to security.
Soon afterwards, in early 1919, the White Army sent a...lets call it special investigator, a former Judge, Nikolai Socolov. And he could proof in a book published just after his own death in France, that the entire family was shot and burnt. Many refused to believe it.
And although he never found their burial site he came pretty close to it. The book even contains an actual photography of the grave, unknowingly though. Yet, it was the one hint, those who found the burial place 60 years later, in 1979 needed.

Same

@@donhatter159 Which books have you read about them? I have a whole playlist of books that I have read about them. I loved the book “The Romanov Empress”. Please let me know. Not a lot of people have the same interests as me. They just think I’m weird and a nerd LOL!!!

@@blindbookworm8019 Have you read Pierre Gillard's book? He was one of the closest persons to the Imperial Family, especially to Alexei.

@@blindbookworm8019 The Romanovs are a very popular subject. A lot of people love reading about them. You're not odd.

@@trawlins396 yay thank you for the encouragement :-)

sciencmath I am dying! LOL! Haha!

Hahahaha

Probably buried next to the rotted corpses of her and her sister, whom died violently, possibly even raped before they were shot. But that's hilarious...

@@darthgueule9870 You gave away the punchline of my Romanov family Aristocrats joke...

😂 😂 😂

They're truly just rumors. She didn't survive.

Jeff Weinstein it was Alexi and Maria they found. Anastasia was never missing as she was in the first grave discovered in the 70's according to the documentary by the scientist who conducted the DNA testing.

Okay

You mean Lenin?

What role is left for Hitler then lol

@@MrAlexnastase97 Lenin died when she was little. Stalin was in power when she grew up

Darth Vegeta is referring to the year the animated movie is set, which would be 1926. However Lenin had died 2 years prior to that, and the Russian Premier at the time was Alexei Rykov.

Atlantis the lost empire althistory Russian a Atlantiean warrior said I'm not going to hurt you be silent we temtement well would be OK them 8 mintue late reply who are you what going do to me with angry more than anything

It is not rare photo. It is their official portrait of 1913.

LOL. Yes, I love his particular British accent, though I do not like all British accents.

I too would like sources for the drug use. I am a Russian history major with a particular interest in the Romanov dynasty and i have never heard of the drug use. I would be interested to see if this is true!

@@alanedark1538 - Cocaine was a commonly used medication at the time. It was used for a number of ailments. So Nicholas taking cocaine was nothing out of the ordinary. Few people became addicted to it because it was taken responsibly. Of course today, things are way different. Opium dens were the real drug problems in the 1880s and early 1900s.
I too agree that Anastasia found learning difficult and was a problem child when it came to being tutored. But she must have been fun to be around as she liked to entertain people.

I did read by Helen Rappaport that they had morphine and some other drugs with them. Dr Evgeny Botkin had a painful kidney infection and they allowed for him to use some. Interesting fact: Ipatiev Monestary was where the Romanov dynasty began and Ipatiev house where it ended. I always wondered if the family knew that house was owned by someone with that last name.

Well there are a few reasons that Anastasia might have been a problem student.
1 is it possible she was dyslexic?
2 was the lessons challenging her or was it to simple? ( since she was the youngest daughter its possible she had learnt it from her sister.)
3 none of the lessons where of interest to her.
Over the years I have learned that people learn more if it relates to their interests. Low grades do not show failure in learning, ( testing brain freeze). Lastly even though dyslexia is known and how to identify it. Many cases slip by the teachers.
School never challenged me, went 13 years and never was recognized as dyslexic and my grades where not the best.

There are a lot of historical inaccuracies in his videos 😅

Kay Lew but she was more exposed to Russian on a daily basis so her Russian would be stronger

^this
Plus the fact, that her german teacher would probably communicate with her on Russian

No. She spoke Russian with her father and siblings and they all spoke English with the Empress. They only started learning French when Pierre Gilliard was assigned to Alexei as his tutor and then he started teaching the girls too.

English was their first language followed by French. French was the official language of the court. Their tutor said their French accents weren't great only Anastasia's and they struggled to write in French. The eldest two Romanov daughters had a strange accent that sounded Irish at times or completely due to their governess or nanny being from County Limerick in Ireland. The Empress tried to get rid of the accents but wasn't entirely successful. Alexandra had English people come to try and correct their accents, she was successful with the three younger kids. Alexandra, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei likely had accents very similar to a posh English person. Alexandra was raised simply by English nannies and wanted her kids to be raised like her. But in saying that many remarked Maria never gave off vibes that she was posh.

+Another Account they actually weren't exposed to much Russian. The official language of the court was French but the children were primarily raised by English speaking people. They also weren't exposed much to the outside world. English was their main language. Same with Alexandra, though German she was raised by English nannies and surrounded by everything English.

how did he survive?

He escaped because he managed to get to the coast where ships could get them out. Once out of Russia he worked as a goldsmith in New York.

Cool!

Of course it was really nice to be a Duke. My great grandmother's father was extremely poor factory worker, his daughter (my great grandmother, who was born in 1927 and died last year) survived the hunger, but her other siblings did not. Of course, the Revolution was messy and bloody, that's why it is called the Red Revolution. But revolutions don't just start out of nowhere, people were suffering.
Idk, just the idea of the former Duke, who had to work hard and was crying about it, ALTHOUGH EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE EMPIRE had to work just as hard, makes me think of karma.
It's not about your grandfather, I am sure he was a nice man.

Yes I've heard this view of the Russian Revolution put more or less the same way. To go further, it's terrible that Lenin ordered the brutal murder of all the Romanov royal children (and many of their extended Family as well), but countless families, children included, were murdered throughout the Romanov Empire for centuries. It's a simple fact that Nicholas II is known for unleashing many vicious pograms against the Jews.

Anna Anderson claimed to have been saved by a Red soldier w/a name like Tschaikovsky, not the name Simon used. She said they fled eventually to Bucharest. She claimed also to have borne and lost a child by him. The very existence of this man has never been confirmed.

@@robertmusacchio3088 yep. Though one of the soldiers did claim to have rescued one of the girls that night out of the truck. Obviously wrong, or a cover up by the Russian government.

The children did not deserve it. I believe the Tzar, if not the Queen as well, very much deserved it.

Don Carlin
The war was still on when Nicholas was deposed, and even his allies did not want him in power any longer. Exile to England, where a close relative was sitting on the throne, was one option. (Most of the European monarchs were closely related.) But the British were afraid of revolution 'from below', Russian style, so it was decided NOT to accommodate cousin Nicky and his family. So if you like, there is a bit of English depravity thrown in.
As for German depravity: they were hoping to gain an advantage over the Allies, so they sent Lenin on a long journey from neutral Switzerland, through Germany and neutral Sweden to St. Petersburg, where he began to make trouble. In 1918 Lenin obliged additionally by surrendered huge chunks of Russian territory to the Germans. After that he was free to wage war on the Russian people, when they did not give a majority in the Constituent Assembly.
(Romans 3:10) 'There is none righteous, not even one............'

The revolution was a case of out of the frying pan into the fire. I don't suppose the masses loved Stalin. There was support for the monarchy amongst the White Russians who fought against the Bolsheviks.

Unfortunately, Tsar Nicholas II did contribute to the downfall of his family, that much is true. The Romanavs lived lives of great luxury while the rest of their people struggled in poverty. Tsar Nicholas doomed his family by showing indifference to the suffering of his people. That being said, his children were still innocent and didn't deserve to die the way they did.

Right. I asked a woman from St. Petersburg how to properly pronounce her name and it is exactly as you wrote. Beautiful name.

i did. she is living with elvis in narvik, norway.

Ikr it's hard to believe this wasn't long ago

Louisa Kost why is language so complicated 🙄

Ken Fulton {Baby Elder} because it's Russian 💪)))

@@louisakost620
Because we are communicating in English -- not Russian -- it's Romanov, not Romanova or Романова.
I am, however, glad we are all writing Romanov instead of Romanoff.

@@Kenxclout Read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Some of the names get really long and weird.

@@louisakost620 It's not just Russian, it goes for all Slavic languages.

Aye, good recommendation!

Yes!!!!

I would also.

Dude was the coolest damn alien ever recorded! Behind jimi Hendrix

Me, too.

Nicholas II has no living descendants, only his two younger sisters Ksenia and Olga do. Sounds like your family made up some bs and tried to pass it off as true.

@@piratesswoop725 Not that I have anything to prove to anyone but, if it makes YOU feel better, I will re-word what I stated before. My family is from the same bloodline as Nicholas. We are related through my maternal grandmother to the Romanov family. Better...? There is plenty of proof. Unfortunately, I am just now gaining access to most of it and only now learning of exactly how we are related since it was kept from me for most of my childhood. What happened to my family was violent and terrifying and my grandmother refused to speak in detail about most of it. She was fearful of the repercussions. Granted, there wouldn't have been any but it didn't matter to her. She had no reason to lie. She wasn't planning on using the information to gain anything. Again, I don't owe you or anyone else any explanations. I felt it was important however to clarify because I don't appreciate anyone calling me grandmother a liar. Again, our shared bloodline is some thing I am proud of that few can claim. It was something that was kept from me due to an irrational fear and I have made the decision to research more into my family tree and learn as much as I can about my very rich family history so I can share the truth with my children and give them the opportunity that I was deprived.

That’s so cool! What percentage of you is Russian?

Christi Meyer how is your grandma related to Nicholas II when he has no descendants?? Just curious

Very cool!! Thanks for sharing!!

That's not true. The King wanted them to come but they couldn't travel because the girls had chicken pox. By the time they were able to travel the King couldn't get permission from Parliament.
And Queen Elizabeth isn't a "distant" relative. Her grandfather was a FIRST cousin to Tsar Nicholas. They look like twins.

@@trawlins396 Ah, that's right they're cousins. The chicken pox detail is not the one many of the videos did not include.

@@--Paws-- He probably didn't have time to include it. There's tons he left out.

Scorpion Flower I thought so too, that it was Maria and Alexis whose bodies were found in the separate grave. In the 20’s and 30’s there were just as many rumours that it was Maria who had survived and also rumours that Alexis had survived as well. I don’t remember his name now, but there was a man who claimed to be Alexis for a very long time and even had some supporters. I’m really enjoying these mini bio docs and I understand how much research has to be done, but I wish whoever sources the images would try a little harder to verify that they are actually the person they are saying they are. It seems like in every one of these, there are images that don’t match the subject person and it hurts my ‘history lover’ heart a little every time
:0 :) ps I’ve read a ton of stuff about the Romanovs over the years, written by historians and by people who knew them personally and closely and I have never read anything about Nicholas being a drug addict or that Anastasia had any hard feelings toward him, all of that came totally out of left field and I agree with the person who said it sounded more like sensationalized gossip than fact

Depends on if you ask American or Russian scientists.

The most media covered American scientist said Anastasia, others and the Russians have always said Maria

@@chonk_fox89 Ah! That's really interesting :)

I know this is very late, but a documentary that I watched claimed that all of their bodies had been found. I’m not sure if this is true though.

@SunsetStranger i think the children allowed to live

Nothing of what you said is true, watch his video on Puyi where he is sent to a labor camp by mao.

Mao only did that to make himself look better than Soviet communists. Something tells me if it was somehow politically beneficial, he would have had no qualms executing the former Emperor

Sean Walsh I think that’s what OP meant by “imprisoned”.

CanadianPrince
If you are what you claim to be, and are so knowledgeable about the principles of royal succession; if we have Governors-General who are such lousy employers, what are we doing, still dallying with those Brits after more than 150 years? Is Liz to be followed inexorably by William and Kate?
(Psalm 146:3) 'Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.'
But there IS salvation in the King of Kings.

@@jesusislordsavior6343 Drop the pretension and preach elsewhere. It isn’t the Queen, nor is it even the Prime Ministers fault that Payette was a bad person. It was the Prime Ministers fault for fronting someone so obviously unqualified though

@@Edmonton-of2ec
Just fishing. I never said that it was the PM's fault, only that it is a strange system.
Of course they have more important things to think about, with the pandemic! However, if I have exposed a raw nerve on account of Jesus, I'm glad I wrote. I wish you only the best, and thanks for responding.

@@jesusislordsavior6343 I have no tolerance for unnecessary proselytizing, especially in such a condescending manner