I Was Anastasia

On July 17, 1918, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov and the rest of the Russian imperial family into a basement in Siberia and execute them. None survive — or so the official account claims.

In February 1920, a young woman resembling Anastasia is pulled from a Berlin canal, her body covered in scars, refusing to explain who she is or how she got there. When she finally speaks, she claims to be the youngest Romanov daughter.

I Was Anastasia follows both the Romanov family in the months before their deaths and Anna Anderson's fifty-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia, as old enemies and new claimants surface across three continents.