Well, I agree that Anna Anderson found the right connections. Every survivor story had the potential ( well, most did) of going as big as Anna Anderson's case became. But they did not, and often are not remembered today, unless they are in a list of claimants. Anna Anderson was no more believable than any other, and her story did not become popular for any reason of sensation unique to it. The other claimants provided that, for sure. I think it was a distraction, perhaps, and also a way of not facing brutal reality. As well, Anna Anderson believed in herself as a claimant, and perhaps if people sensed that she really thought that she was Anastasia, they believed more in her. The whole claimants thing in general was escapism.