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18 The Progress-Index, Petersburg-Colonial Va, Wednesday, April 27, 1960 Anastasia Mystery May Soon Be Cleared cisca Schanzkovski, a Polish peasant. Anna Anderson is not Polish, she is not a peasant, she is not an iniposler, she is not a lunatic. She is a humpn being. Who is she? Anastasia? (EDITOR'S Dr.) the nrnnrt pnchpp? Aiiasi i pr of Russia's l.isi rznr. o.ccapn i her life when Hnlshcvtks- mimi.Mvil royal a i in mis? Several a i -lo the litli? have been mndc among liwm tli.it of A a Anderson.

now residing in Germany. Her claim will he considered soon hv a Hamburg, Germany, court. H. van Okker has followed the case for many years has been RSkcd by United Press International to write his opinions of it.) i. Is Anna Anderson Anastasia? When the strange and tragic case of Anna Anderson who, sick and penniless, has fought for 40 years to prove she is a Duchess Anastasia, youngest 'daughter of Russia's last czar sole survivor of the Bolshe- "Yik slaughter of the rest of her family, goes to trial in Hamburg, Germany, the mystery of the century may be solved and Anastasia officially recognized as Imperial Highness.

Because of the play and movie, Anastasia has become a legend -and her story an unsolved mystery. People are surprised to learn she is a real person, alive and still fighting for recognition. Even the story of execution of the Russian royal family, prison- ers of the Bolsheviks since the St. Petersburg uprising more than a year before, is known only to history students, memory of it having faded for most people. It was during the middle of the night of July 16-17, 1918, in the cellar of a house in Siberia, that the czar, his family and others arranged -as for a family portrait were slain -bytheir Red nixcd her and then denied it.

It is a story that if true, is unbelievable to naivo people schooled in traditional moral values. In the play and movie, Grand- mama, mother of the murdered czar, dowager empress of Russia, who had escaped to Copenhagen during the revolution, goes to Anastasia in Berlin in 1926, and, in an enigmatic climax, recognizes Anastasia. In real life Grandmama, Swimming Lesson For Sea! Sought SAN RAFAEL, Calif. Anyone know how to teach a seal to swim? The Marin County Humane Society wants to find out. It has a week-old female in a bathtub and no information about feaching procedures.

The seal was found stranded on a roof by a fisherman last Mon- Danish princess by birth, die! a go to Berlin. Prince Valdemar of Denmark, The- area of Labrador, once con- ner brother, sent a letter in sidcred and later disproved as a 1925, by Aiexis Volkov, the mur- part of Greenland, is half a mil- acred czarina's groom of (he square miles, chamber, to Ilcrluf Zahle, Danish ambassador in Berlin. Volkov with Zahle went to see Anastasia The czar was seated in the the czarevitch, a honio- philiac, was seated on his right. Dr. Eugen Bp'kin, the czar's personal physician stood next tp him.

The czarina wn.s sealed behind and between the czar and C7.arevitch. The four grand duchesses wore manservant grouped and Ihe about the chef stood ngainst a wall behind the family and doctor. They were murdered by their as a White Russian Army advanced, threatening (he Red Army of Siberia and the liberation of the royal family. As the death cries of the vie tims ceased in that cellar filled with the sickening smell of gunpowder and blood, one of the grand duchesses rolled over and screamed. She was hit on the head with the butt of a rifle and stabbed with a bayonet.

The bodies were wrapped in blankets, carried out of the cellar and laid on the ground to be loaded on lorries and taken to an abandoned mine pit to be burned. "There are documents to establish this. There also is evidence that the body of one of the grand duchesses disappeared anci that the Bolsheviks carried on a house to house search that night, a search a spread during the follow ins days, weeks mid months to ail surrounding country dominated by the Bolsheviks. Unlxilievable except to who know thp.l anything can happen is Anaslasia's slnry of her rescue and escape in an ox-drawn turnip cart from Siberia to Ro' mania that look six months. Equally fantastic is the story of the birth in Bucharest of her son, fathered by her peasant res- cuer, her marriage to the peasant and the death of the peasanl- in Bucharest, the placing of her baby in a Bucharest orphanage, and her perilous trek to Berlin hoping to reach her mother's sister, Princess Irene of Prussia.

Then followed her desperation and attempted suicide at Ifl in a Berlin canal, her story in an asylum and then the beginning of her long fight to prove her identity. This story is no Irss unbelievable than the i i and Iny behind it of those closest to Anastasia who allegedly recog- A i this visit Grandmama sent Anastasia's former nurse- governess and two tutors to Berlin. Finally she sent Grand Duchess Olga, her daughter, sister of the late czar and Anastasia's aunt. Each of the above allegedly recognized Anastasia. But after 01- ga's return to Copenhagen and several warm letters to Anastasia there was a silence.

Volkov, the nurse governess and the two tutors made a statement in 1926 saying they had not recognized Anastasia. Zahle, believing Anna Anderson was Anastasia, continued his investigation for IB months on his own before turning it over to the head of a Russian refugee organization, Serge Botkin, a cousin of Dr. Botkin who was murdered with the royal family. Zahle's confidential files will be opened at tt4 trial. Anna Anderson has a good case with a backbone.

Dr. Otto Rcche, rican of German anthropologists, appointed in June, 1059, to study Ihe case, says Anna Anderson is Anastasia. The court action is a civil suit filed in December to the late Czar. The Royal Mouse of Hcs.se (Anastasia's mother wasi Princess Alix of Hesse before married Nicholas II of Russia) is Anastasia's. opponent in this action.

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