While looking for something else, I, again, stumbled over something interesting, so, I looked around and didn't find a thread where it could be placed, so, not being afraid to start list threads, I'm starting this one. And this one is about people who believed Anna Anderson was Gd Anastasia before the DNA tests.
As we start, I'd like to see names, when they saw AA and what made them deside AA was the GD Anastasia. Please, give a source [book and page] and if you know the dates.
So, I'll start off with Mathilde Kschessinska's testimony which occured in front of the French camerias during an interview in 1967 and what wasn't seen through the camera's eyes was taped to give us additional information.
FILE ON THE TSAR p. 223-4 is where Summers and Mangold tell us:
>>...When interviews about "Anastasia".... she was 95 years old but restill remarkbly alet and coherent. Her son Vladimir was present at the interview , and had supervised all the arrangements.. He had even prepared a written statement for is mother to deliver... But Mathilde.. decided not to stick to the script, and when the key question ws asked, a very different answer emerged:
Proteau: "Princess, in 1928, in Paris you met the woman who in those days was called the "Mystery Woman of Berlin'. "
Kschessinska: "I did see her -- once."
Proteau: "And what did you think of her?"
Kschessinka: "That it was she."
"..it was folllowed by a moment of stunned silence, and then there was an angry interruption from her son: "Niet, niet, cut! You just cut!" The cameras stopped turning, but two tape machines continued to record what folllowed... The old lady remained unabashed, and continued to talk for another half hour, expressing full confidence that the claimant really was Anastasia."
Oh, I can hear the groans from the DNAers, but, remember this isn't a thread to prove AA was GD Anastasia, this is merely to show who believed she was before DNA testing.
AGRBear
