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The resurrection of the Romanovs : Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the world's greatest royal mystery / Greg King and Penny Wilson.

Title
The resurrection of the Romanovs : Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the world's greatest royal mystery / Greg King and Penny Wilson.
Author
King, Greg, 1964-
Publication
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2011.

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Additional Authors
Wilson, Penny, 1966-
Description
xxv, 397 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Explores the mysteries surrounding the execution of the Romanov family and the life of the woman who claimed to be Anastasia, the evidence debunking her claim, and the people who lent support to her fantasy.
Subject
  • Anderson, Anna
  • Anastasii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901-1918 > Legends
  • Anastasii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901-1918
  • Romanov, House of > Biography
  • Geschichte 1918
  • Princesses > Russia > Biography
  • Impostors and imposture > Case studies
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
  • Case studies.
  • Legends.
Note
  • "Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Cast of principal characters -- pt. 1. Anastasia -- "My God, what a disappointment!" -- The imp -- Into the abyss -- "How little I suspected I was never to see them again" -- pt. 2. Anna Anderson -- Resurrection -- Fraulein Unbekannt -- A story of escape -- A ghost from the past? -- Encounter in Berlin -- "If the Imperial House of Russia wants to let one of its own die in the gutter..." -- "A sort of weird charm" -- The making of a myth -- "A gruesome impression" -- A tale of two books -- Émigrés at war -- The trials -- "How shall I tell you who I am?" -- pt. 3. Franziska -- The fairytale crumbles -- A girl from the provinces -- The Polish factory worker -- The myth unravels -- Into the pages of history -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9780470444986 (cloth)
  • 0470444983 (cloth)
LCCN
^^2010016887
OCLC
610466408
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library