Question by green_grass_galloping_gargoyles: are there any known survivors of the romanov dynasty?
following the tragic assasination of the imperial house members, is there any evidence that there might be any surviving relatives of the family? (excluding the lineage through the royal English family)
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Answer by Heinz M
No. But they had relations all the way to the English Royal House, as well as the Austrian and German Royal houses. Habsburg and Hohenzollern.
All of them were related.
Happen to know because my family ties go into that as well…
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dk_angel says
Yes, the Tzar's mother for one survived. – A Danish princess by the way…. Also family further down the line survived, cousins and the likes… There are still Romanovs alive today.
crossstitchkelly says
There were several Romanovs and their relatives who lived in Germany and Great Britain. Alexandria, the last Tsarina, was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, so she was related to many royals in Germany, as well. When "Anastasia" claimed to have survived, she was taken to Germany to the part of the Romanov family which lived there to see if they recognized her. The family was divided, and it was only after they did DNA testing on her did they all accept that she wasn't the real Anastasia.
chrstnwrtr says
Maybe a few scattered ones here and there. The Bolsheviks managed to wipe out the most important ones. Unfortunately, their fate was unwarranted (what did the Tsar's kids have to do with the empire anyway?).
officer_betty_lou says
It sounds like no one here say the big news when the found Anastasia's body a few years ago. It was just buried a little further away. There are some other relatives that would have been inline to inherit. One old cousin inparticular but he gave up his claim to the throne when the USSR fell. There are some other relations around still too, although I think less directly related.
nnyajnik says
Well, so far three women have staked their claim to being Anastasia. And all three had convincing alibi and very legitimate-looking evidences. However, these claims have been rubbished by the DNA tests by comparing the bones dug up from the graves of the Tsar and these three women's DNAs. Still, the controversy refuses to die down. Anastasia has been subject of much speculation, with many books and films made on the theme. There is a high probability that, even if Anastasia was not with her family when they were assasinated, she may have been hidden by some sympathiser, but may have died a lonely and miserable death. What with the communists searching every corner of the country for possible survivors, she could not have surfaced openly.
Maggie LeMasters says
No. For many years there was the thought that Anastasia had escaped and she would have been the last. A book came out and said it wasn't Anastasia, by DNA of the remains of the family, but that book can't really make that claim stick. One of the younger girls was missing and it could have been Anastasia.
I had a friend, a dispossessed prince, Prince Paul Von Lobkowitz, who knew the woman who claimed to be Anastasia personally. He was convinced that she was the real Anastasia. His reasoning was that a royal knows another royal. That some things can be faked, but that others can't. And that being around her he became convinced that she, like himself, was a true royal.
There was a great deal of wealth involved as to whether or not she turned out to be the real Anastasia or not. And so, while some accepted her, many did not.
I believe that some of the nobility who fled were probably related to her, but I don't know enough about that part to be sure.
bumpocooper says
Oh yes, many went to France and still live there today.
correrafan says
I just watched something on the History channel about the Tzars of Russia the other day. In conclusion, the narrator said that DNA has recently proved that all of the Romanov family were murdered. No one survived.
pashutsa says
No there can't be any survivors because they were all assasinated and for a long time their graves could not be found.Only a couple years ago they were burried properly.
Even the children were all murdered with cruelty