1. Anna Anderson, aka Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish factory worker. Perhaps the most famous imposter of all. She was a darling of New York high society in the 1920's. Her suit in the German courts to prove her identity lasted over thirty years. She came to America to live permanently and married a history professor at the University of Virginia.
2. Eugenia Smith, aka Eugenia Drabek Smetisko.
3. Joseph Veres.
4. Heino Tammet, aka Ernest Veerman.
5. Left to right, Tatiana Botkin, her father Eugene, who was indeed shot along with the Imperial Family, and her brother, Gleb. Both Tatiana and Gleb were very strong proponents of Anna Anderson. But that was in the days when the science of fingerprinting was barely known, (and certainly not admissable in a court of law), and DNA was completely unheard of. Clearly, and on the statistical interpretation of the DNA evidence, no member of the Imperial Family, or their four servants, left the Ipatiev house alive.
2. Eugenia Smith, aka Eugenia Drabek Smetisko.
3. Joseph Veres.
4. Heino Tammet, aka Ernest Veerman.
5. Left to right, Tatiana Botkin, her father Eugene, who was indeed shot along with the Imperial Family, and her brother, Gleb. Both Tatiana and Gleb were very strong proponents of Anna Anderson. But that was in the days when the science of fingerprinting was barely known, (and certainly not admissable in a court of law), and DNA was completely unheard of. Clearly, and on the statistical interpretation of the DNA evidence, no member of the Imperial Family, or their four servants, left the Ipatiev house alive.
As mentioned earlier, the literal translation of the word Anastasia is "of the resurrection". As such, I thought the image below would be appropriate.
The Easter lily, Lilium longiflorum.
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