Here is the text from the obitiuary of John Manahan in the Daily Progress (local Charlottesville Paper) dated Friday, March 23, 1990.
John Manahan, Husband of "Anastasia", Dead At 70
John E. "Jack" Manahan, the husband of a woman who claimed to be the daughter of the last czar of Russia, died Thursday at the age of 70.
Manahan was a retired history professor who married a woman purported to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov 21 years ago. Anastasia died in Charlottesville in 1984.
"In the beginning, I did not know if my wife was who she said she was," Manahan said in an interview with the Daily Progress last year. "But so many claimed to recognize her and my wife was (so) that I gave up any disbeliefs."
Officially, the Soviet Union contended the royal family was murdered in July 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
Manahan was born in Charlottesville in 1919 and was a scholar at the University of Virginia and Harvard. He specialized in Eastern European history and also was an amateur geneologist.
In recent years, Manahan had conducted hundreds of interviews for books, movies, plays and newspapers about his wife's life.
A funeral service for Manahan will be held at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Westminster Presbyterian Church.