Claimant of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna

[Annie]

If you read her book, she really comes up with nothing new or unknown.  Also, a lot of what she said was simply made up. No exclusive insider information at all. She also changed her story as she went along and found out  something she had "forgotten".

I did read it but it was years ago in middle school and I had forgotten the details. That makes sense, she made things up that no one could verify as right or wrong since the rest of them were dead, so who'd know?    There are a few "Anastasia" 'diaries' out there that are made up fiction and just opening to a page I can pick out something to prove just how fake it is. It does bother me that people believe these fake stories.

[dmitri]

Yes you are quite right Robert. That guy Golieniewski was yet another one of the ridiculous imposters. They were all rather amusing in their bizarre way.

[Rachael89]

Bizarrely, the discovery of the bones has prompted someone else with a story of survival to come forward, says their dad saw GD Anastasia on a ship escaping in 1918:

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/features/leader/display.var.1679030.0.from_boro_with_love.php

Even though it's (obviously) amazingly imporbably it makes quite an interesting read so I thought I'd share.

Rachael

[dmitri]

Myths and legends ...

[lexi4]

That story is really a stretch.
But the Empress of Asia was a really cool ship.She ran regular runs to the Orient until 1916 was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and converted into an Auxiliary Cruiser. She sailed for New York on May 22 1918 and arrived on June 17, 1918. On board were about 3,000 Chinese labourers. So it doesn't appear that the ship ever docked at Vladivostok.

[Annie]

Even though I don't believe it, it's always interesting to hear about some other claimant besides AA all the time.

[dmitri]

Yes there were many claimants. I wonder whether they were all clones?

[Olishka~ Pincess]

Yes that could be a possiblity right there that all may have been clones we never know. But all this is another myth.

[Belochka]

I think Ronald Shaw should go and have a nice cup of tea and lie down for a while. He got his name in the paper and can ponder on that.

[Phil_tomaselli]

Catty Belochka, Catty.  We're not all as clever as you or as well informed.  He was only repeating what his father told him................though it has to be said that provided http://www.empressofasia.com  is correct the timeline is quite incorrect.  but presumably his father did and saw something - the interesting question is What?

Phil Tomaselli

[Belochka]

From the article:

"He never saw her very close, but when he later looked at pictures of Anastasia, he said she looked like the girl he had seen."

Oh dear, now it is time for another cup of tea.

[dmitri]

Yes perhaps a nice cup of Russian Caravan Tea?

[Foxglove]

I wonder if Jack Shaw saw a picture of Maria in the paper as the missing daughter, would he then claim that the girl he saw was in fact Maria? Also, some of the events described surrounding the girl sound suspicious to me.

[Robert_Hall]

Assuming the story is true, that is  the gentleman did see a young, well off lady being escorted abroad, and not  just a family legend, it could have been any young lady/girl from a well off family. Romanovs were not the only ones trying to escape, after all. The only real way to research the claim is to check passenger lists for the ship and immigration records in Vancouver for the time period.

[helenazar]

The only real way to research the claim is to check passenger lists for the ship and immigration records in Vancouver for the time period.

Robert, you don't expect that Anastasia went under her REAL name, do you? ;-)

It would have made an even more interesting story if Alexei was also seen on that ship...