Claimant of Grand Duchess Marie Nikolaevna - Granny Alina

This would go in the survivors or claimants board. It's been discussed at great length how much she looks like her and why she wouldn't be Maria.

Well i do believe Granny Aline wás Maria, but you know, everyone has his own thoughts  .

I'm not sure about this case...However, you must compare lots of photographies to conclude is a person is or not who claims she is. If you does only a comparison of a single photo, results could not be conclusive. In some photos, I'm not like me at all... . And of course, those comparations will be made by experts and anthropologic seniors. And of course DNA could help, but in Romanov case I'm very suspicious of it.

YEAH...I know that some people would be very angry to me for saying this...(Hehehe)  

RealAnastasia.

she definetly was not Mashka...NO

How many people said they were which Romanov. It becomes hilarious.This woman wasn't Marie. Anyway, this belongs on a different thread.

I think she was Maria! But that are my thougts...

I'm not very convinced about Granny Alina being Maria, but I don't like the "anti-survivors theories" attitude. When I believe in a claimant or don't believe , I always give my reasons of it. I think that only writting: "No; she wasn't Maria", "This woman is not our dear Maria" and so, doesn't help in an historical board. It would be the same if me, as a AA supporter would write: "AA was Anastasia" or "There is no doubt; she was Anastasia and nobody can think otherwise without being a fool".

We are in an historical forum...So...Give reasons for or againts an argument. "No" and "Yes" are not useful here.

RealAnastasia.

Amen to that.  

granny alina was not maria, nor was anna anderson anastasia. no members of the imperial family survived. two bodies are missing from the grave and they are maria and aleksei. the reason why they are missing is because their bodies were burnt while the others were buried.

This is going to sound like it goes on the survivor board but oh well, so does the rest of the thread in general!

Lovy, it has been found to be impossible to completely reduce the body of one human (let alone two) to ash in the conditions and time that was vailiable to Yurovksy et all. So either their remians were buried seperately from the main pit (by far the most likely) or one or both survived (very, very unlikely, but there is an itsy bitzy chance.)

Rachael

I think that who survived and who didn't is a very fundamental question of the Romanovs and it is important to discuss this, but always on the right board, of course. I think it is important to give reasons why you say something, but then it is common sense that it is not likely that any member of the family survived. And that, of course, takes care of the survivor issue. But everyone can have their own opinions if they want.

She looks much like Marie in my opiniion, but that's not always a reason to believe in someone. If the bones found in Ekaterinburg were those of the Romanovs, than according to the evidence Dr. William Maples provided, Marie was among the nine bodies found.

That's Anastasia.

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shure she might look like Marie. but like calebGmoney said. if doctors found the bones of her than she obviosly died with her family.

Uhm, Emily, the're we're two investigations done on their bones, one said that anastasia was missing, and one said that Maria was missing.

But the one we can trust is the one that tell's us Maria is missing.