Honestly, there aren't enough similarities in regards to wound placements and types on the body from the original grave to assure it was Anastasia.....they all correlated with the wounds Maria is said to have been inflicted with in the cellar. Not to mention the fact that Demidova, Alexandra's "parlour maid" as Yurovsky put it, was stout and plump exactly as Anastasia was at the time of her slaughter. This in essence goes with the idea that Yurovsky said he burned "Demidova's" body thus making this mistake on physical appearances (he couldn't judge by faces as the malicious b*stards had caved them in with rifle butts), and only looking at their bodies. I say this because not only was Maria taller than Demidova to have been mistaken for her, BUT she had thinned out previous to 1915. I'm more or less saying that Anastasia would have been far more likely to be thought of as the pleasantly plump servant than Maria..........
That's what I have always thought, too. Whichever girl was burned, she had to have been mistaken for a chubby, middle aged woman. The older three were all taller and thinner. Then we have this statement:
Sukhorukov in Last Act of A Tragedy p. 144:
>>We decided to burn two corpses on the fire and did so. For our sacrificial altar we got the last heir.
The second body was the youngest daughter Anastasia. After the corpses were burned, we scattered the ashes, dug a pit in the centre, shoveled in all the unburnt remainders, made a fire again on the same spot and finished the work.<<
This account mentions Anastasia by name. So we have one account saying it was Demidova, one saying it was Anastasia, and none saying it was anyone else by name. I really never understood why Marie was even considered as the missing girl, except that according to the Russians, her face matched on their computer tests (though the middle of the face was completely destroyed and AN and MN were very similiar IMO across the forehead)
Sooo- I guess we'll just have to wait for the official word. I would personally love to have this 'which girl' controversy cleared up to end ALL questions, but as long as all five kids are accounted for that will have to be enough.
