Description |
xxv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Note |
"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Subject |
Anderson, Anna.
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Anastasii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901-1918 -- Legends.
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Anastasii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901-1918.
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Princesses -- Russia -- Biography.
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Romanov, House of.
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Impostors and imposture -- Case studies.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Added Author |
Wilson, Penny, 1966-
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ISBN |
9780470444986 cloth |
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0470444983 cloth |
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