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8- EVENING JOURNAL, Lubbock, Wednesday, February 15, Controversy surrounds fate of czar's daughter NEW YOI1K (API On July 17, 1318. Nicholas II, his wife Czarina Alexandra and their five children Piled down Ihc stairs to the baserncnl of a house in Ihe Ural mining town of Ekaterinburg, now Sverdlovsk. The four daughters sobbed as Bolshevik riflemen herded the dethroned imperial family to doom. Shols rang oul. Bayonets sliced through the air and ripped into flesh.

Nicholas, Alexandra and Ihe children Alexis, Taliana, Olga, Marie and Anaslasia all perished, historical accounts say. Or did they? Nineteen mnnlhs after the executions, a young woman, her body wasted by tuberculosis, was pulled from the icy water of the l.andwehr Canal in Berlin after trying to kill herself. Two years later, she told the world she was the Clrand Duchess Anasla- sia Nicolaevna Romanov. Anna Anderson Manahan died Sunday in Charlollesville, at Ihc age of 82. She had spent almost CO years fighting for recognition as Ihe youngest Romanov daughter.

Her odysscy sparked one of the most unrluring ami romantic royal controversies. Viveca Lindfors starred in the 1951 liroadway pliiy, "Anaslasia." Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her performance in the screen version. There's been a ballet about (he grand duchess anti a TV drama. A musical is planned for Broadway. "I believed her," author Peter Kurth said in recent interview.

"Nobody whn lived with her and gut to know her didn't believe her." Kurlh's "Anastasia: The Fiiddle of Anna Anderson" was published last year. Now 30, he began his research after seeing the Bergman movie when he was 13. "I was very surprised to know it was based on a (rue story," he said. Mrs. Manahan was not (lie only pretender to the (hrone.

Others surfaced over the years, claiming to be Ihe mischievous child who was nicknamed "Schwibsik" (Imp) by her family. And rumors swarmed: that the Romanovs were never really killed bul fled to the West and hid their true identities; that the had $20 million in gold rubles in British banks; that Ihe woman claiming to be his youngest daughter was really the out-of-wedlock child of his mistress. Eugenia Smith of Newport. 11.1., published "Anaslasia, the Autobiography of Ihc Duchess of llus- sia," in I9K1. An Oct.

1G, 1063, article in said polygraph examiner Cleve Backster had reported that results of a lie detector test indicated Mrs. Smith could he Anastasia. Other evidence could not be substantiated. Mrs. Smith refused to discuss her claim with the Associated I'ress.

Her publisher, Jtohert Speller, said he was "99 percent convinced that she's for real. I'm 99 percent convinced that Mrs. Manahan was not. "We looked at films by the hundreds and if you examine Mrs. Smith's body very carefully, she has foreshortened arms she was on the dumpy side, which the genuine Anas- lasia was," he said.

"Mrs. Manahan harl a dancer's figure." Anna Anderson Manahnn, name- Was she Anastasia? Anna Anderson Manahan, right, died Sunday in Charlottesville, at the age of 82. She had spent nearly 60 years fighting for recognition as the youngest daughter of the last Russian ruler, Nicholas II. Anastasia is shown at left in a family portrait at the age of 16. oul of shame, she instead plunged into Ihe canal.

European royalty remained divided about "Anastasia" while nulhori- ties sought evidence. A Swiss crirni- nologisl compared skull measurements and said Mrs. Manahan was not the grand duchess. A German police laboratory made a study of the ears and concluded the same. A private detective asserted in 1927 that she was really a Polish peasant who had been injured in a defense plant explosion.

In 1028, Mrs. Manahan came to the United States. In 1S30, she was admitted to a mental institution under the name Anna Anderson. Then she returned to Germany. In 1933, she look her case to the courts.

In after more than 30 years of claims and counterclaims, a German court ruled that Anna Anderson could not prove she was Anus- tasia. During her legal battles, she lived in poverty in the Black Forest. She moved to the United States in 1G68 and married John E. Manahan, a former history professor. In 1977, German forensic experts' said Anastasia and Mrs.

Manahan were the same person. "Forensic studies showed that her car was identical wilh the ear of Anastasia. Seventeen anatomical points were said. Mrs. Manahan's lawyer wan.lcd to lake the case back to court.

Sl'fc refused. VIJ "It became a point of ly," Kurth said. "She knew perfectly well who she was and it didn't rrialter whalacourtoflawsaid." less at the lime, had scars on her forehead and behind her right ear when she entered a Merlin hospital after jumping into the Landwchr Canal. She was mclanclmnic and would not discuss her past. Another patient, who had heard rumors that a member of the imperial family had escaped execution, saw a resemblance between the young woman and an old magazine photoofTatiana.

The patient announced she bad found Taliana, then corrected herself the woman was really Anastasia. Mrs. Manahan told "Anaslasia's" story to Berlin police. She said a guard, loyal to the found her slill alive when he came lo remove the royal corpses, and look her lo safety in Romania, where she bore his child. The guard was later killed and the child placed in an orphanage.

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