Anastasia and The Russia Revolution

Alexis is born!Son with Hemophilia

Russian Peasants

Duma

The Duma (Russia’s government) knew that Russia was suffering from the damages of WWI, but the Czar brushed them aside and didn’t listen.

Starvation of Russian peasants

Bolsheviks

Leader

She was spunky and carefree, however , the family's

troubles overtook Anastasia's teen years.

Baby Anastasia

Anastasia remains a name of mystery.

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 11 Bolshevik soldiers were shooting

at the imperial family. Historians believe that Anastasia

might have not died at all!

a film called “Anastasia” , the film was based on the true Russian tragedy of the Romanov family.

Anastasia is an engaging and fiery 18-year-old orphan. Torn from the royal Romanov family during the Russian Revolution, young "Anya" is left with no memory of her past.

many people claimed to be Anastasia .

The most famous one was Anna Anderson.

Anderson claimed herself to be Anastasia who was supposed to be killed in 1917.

Anderson and Anastasia had physical similarities.

a foot deformity like Anastasia's . Anthropologists found their faces to be very

similar.

Anastasia, 1909

Anna Anderson 1959

Evidence showing that Anna Anderson was not the real

princess:

all the women who claimed to be Anastasia were proven false.

professor Riabov finds the remainders of the bones of the Romanovs .

skeletons together with Anna Anderson’s were tested by DNA .

genetic proof that Anna Anderson was really Franziska Schwanzkowska, a Polish worker.

Russian Revolution

Before 1917, Russia was an autocracy meaning the czar had complete power.

The last of the czars was Nicholas II Romanov

During WWI, Russia did not do well, millions of Russians were killed and citizens did not have enough food to eat.

The Czar and his family were captured and Russia’s government was overthrown.

Russia eventually turned into the Soviet Union a communist country

The leader of the Bolsheviks, the revolution and the Soviet Union was Vladimir Lenin