Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ( Russian : Анастаси́я Никола́евна Рома́нова , tr. Anastasíya Nikoláyevna Románova ; June 18 [ O.S. June 5] 1901 – July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II , the last sovereign of Imperial Russia , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna . Anastasia was the younger sister of Grand Duchesses Olga , Tatiana , and Maria , and was the elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia . She was murdered with her family by members of the Cheka , the Bolshevik secret police , in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. Persistent rumors of her possible escape circulated after her death, fuelled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. The mass grave near Yekaterinburg which held the remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three o...