The Resurrection of the Romanovs (2 page)

Cast of Principal Characters

THE IMPERIAL FAMILY

Nicholas II
(1868–1918), last Russian emperor, reigned 1894–1917

Alexandra
(1872–1918), empress and consort of Nicholas II, born Princess Alix of Hesse und bei Rhein

Alexei
(1904–1918), tsesarevich and heir to the Russian throne, only son of Nicholas and Alexandra

Olga Nikolaievna
(1895–1918), grand duchess and eldest daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra

Tatiana Nikolaievna
(1897–1918), grand duchess and second daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra

Marie Nikolaievna
(1899–1918), grand duchess and third daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra

Anastasia Nikolaievna
(1901–1918), grand duchess and fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra

THE HOUSE OF ROMANOV

Alexander Mikhailovich
(1866–1933), grand duke, second cousin to Nicholas II, and husband to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna

Andrei Vladimirovich
(1879–1956), grand duke, first cousin to Nicholas II; married (1921) former ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, onetime mistress to Nicholas II; investigated Anderson’s claim

Felix Felixovich Yusupov
(1887–1967), prince, Rasputin’s principal assassin; married (1914) to Princess Irina Alexandrovna (1895–1970), only daughter of Xenia Alexandrovna and Alexander Mikhailovich

Kirill Vladimirovich
(1876–1938), grand duke, first cousin to Nicholas II; married (1905) Princess Victoria Melita (“Ducky”), divorced wife of Empress Alexandra’s only surviving brother, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse; rightful heir to the Russian throne

Marie Feodorovna
(1847–1928), dowager empress of Russia, widow of Alexander III, and mother of Nicholas II; born Princess Dagmar, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark

Nina Georgievna
(1901–1974), princess of Russia, eldest daughter of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich; married (1922) Prince Paul Chavchavadze, mother of Prince David Chavchavadze

Olga Alexandrovna
(1883–1960), grand duchess, youngest sister of Nicholas II, favorite aunt of Anastasia; married Prince Peter of Oldenburg (marriage annulled); married Colonel Nicholas Kulikovsky

Xenia Alexandrovna
(1875–1960), grand duchess, eldest sister of Nicholas II, wife of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, and mother-in-law of Prince Felix Yusupov

Xenia Georgievna
(1903–1965), princess of Russia, youngest daughter of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich; married William Leeds (divorced 1930); married Herman Jud (1946); mother of Nancy Leeds Wynkoop; hosted Anderson in 1928 at her Long Island estate, Kenwood

ANASTASIA’S ROYAL RELATIVES

Ernst Ludwig
(1868–1937), last grand duke of Hesse und bei Rhein, only surviving brother of Empress Alexandra; married Princess Victoria Melita (“Ducky”) (1894, divorced 1901); married Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Irene
(1866–1953), Princess Heinrich of Prussia, born Princess Irene of Hesse und bei Rhein, sister of Empress Alexandra, married to Prince Heinrich of Prussia, younger brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Sigismund
(1896–1978), prince of Prussia, second son of Princess Irene and Prince Heinrich, married to Princess Charlotte-Agnes of Saxe-Altenburg, sister of Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg

Victoria
(1863–1950), marchioness of Milford Haven (after 1917), born Princess Victoria of Hesse und bei Rhein, eldest sister of Empress Alexandra, mother of Lord Louis Mountbatten, grandmother of Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh

MEMBERS OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL COURT, SUITE, AND HOUSEHOLD

Buxhoeveden, Baroness Sophie
(1884–1956),
kamer-freilina
(personal lady-in-waiting) to Empress Alexandra from 1913

Gibbes, Charles Sidney
(1876–1963), English tutor to the imperial children

Gilliard, Pierre
(1879–1962), tutor of the French language to the imperial children; married (1919) the imperial children’s former nursery maid Alexandra Tegleva

Mordvinov, Colonel Anatole
, former adjutant to Nicholas II

Sablin, Captain Nicholas
, former officer aboard the imperial yacht
Standart

Tegleva, Alexandra
(“Shura”) (died 1955), former nursery maid to the imperial children; married Pierre Gilliard in 1919

Volkov, Alexei
(1868–1929), former valet de chambre to the empress

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

Barfknecht, Emilie
, nurse at Dalldorf Asylum, Berlin

Bonhoeffer, Dr. Karl
, treated Anna Anderson at the Mommsen Clinic, Berlin

Buchholz, Erna
, nurse at Dalldorf Asylum, Berlin

Eitel, Dr. Theodore
, specialist in internal medicine, treated Anna Anderson at the Stillachhaus Sanatorium at Oberstdorf in Bavaria, 1926–1927

Kastritsky, Professor Serge
, former court dentist to Nicholas II

Malinovsky, Anna (Thea)
, later Chemnitz, nurse at Dalldorf Asylum, Berlin

Nobel, Dr. Lothar
, director of Mommsen Clinic, Berlin

Rudnev, Professor Serge
, Russian émigré tubercular specialist, treated Anna Anderson 1925–1926

Walz, Bertha
, nurse at Dalldorf Asylum, Berlin

Willige, Dr. Hans
, director of the Ilten Asylum near Hannover, treated Anna Anderson 1931–1932

LAWYERS IN THE ANNA ANDERSON CASE

Berenberg-Gossler, Dr. Gunther von
(1901–2001), lawyer for Barbara, Duchess Christian Ludwig of Mecklenburg, in the Anderson civil trial and appeals

Fallows, Edward
, Anna Anderson’s American lawyer, 1928–1940

Krampff, Dr. Hans Hermann
, lawyer for Prince Ludwig of Hesse in the Anderson civil trial and appeals

Leverkuehn, Dr. Paul
, with Kurt Vermehren Anna Anderson’s German lawyer, 1938–1960

Stackelberg, Dr. Baron Curt von
, lawyer who headed Anna Anderson’s 1970 appeal to the West German Federal Supreme Court

Vermehren, Dr. Kurt
, with Paul Leverkuehn Anna Anderson’s German lawyer, 1938–1962

Wollmann, Carl August
, from 1962 lawyer for Anna Anderson’s appeals

INTERESTED PARTIES

Auclères, Dominique
, reporter for
Le Figaro
, covered the Anderson civil suit

Botkin, Gleb
(1900–1969), youngest son of court physician Dr. Eugene Botkin, who was murdered with the Romanovs

Botkin, Serge
(died 1945), first cousin to Dr. Eugene Botkin, president of the Office of Russian Refugees in Berlin

Botkin, Tatiana
(1898–1986), only daughter of court physician Dr. Eugene Botkin, who was murdered with the Romanovs; married (1918) Konstantin Melnik

Burkhart, Susan (née Grindstaff )
, owner of Anna Anderson hair sample tested for DNA in 1994

Cecilie, crown princess of Prussia
(1886–1954), married to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son and heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Dassel, Captain Felix
(died 1958), former patient in the Tsarskoye Selo hospital operated by Grand Duchesses Marie and Anastasia Nikolaievna during the First World War

Dehn, Lili von
(1888–1963), close friend of Empress Alexandra

Friedrich Ernst
,
Prince of Saxe-Altenburg
(1905–1985), distantly related to the Romanovs; acted as legal adviser for Anna Anderson from 1949; his sister Charlotte-Agnes married Prince Sigismund of Prussia

Grunberg, Inspector Franz
, Berlin Police official, sheltered Anna Anderson 1922–1924

Hardenberg, Count Kuno von
, former marshal of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig’s court

Horan, Brien Purcell
, American lawyer and Anderson case historian

Jennings, Annie Burr
, heiress who periodically sheltered Anna Anderson 1928–1930 in New York

Kleist, Baron Arthur von
, former provincial police chief in Poland, periodically sheltered Anna Anderson 1922–1924 in Berlin, recorded her early alleged memories

Kleist, Baroness Gerda von
, youngest of four daughters of Baron and Baroness von Kleist

Kleist, Baroness Marie von
(née Grotthaus), wife of Baron Arthur von Kleist

Klemenz, Vera von
, music teacher at Schloss Seeon in Bavaria

Knopf, Martin
(born 1891), private bank detective in Berlin, hired by Count Kuno von Hardenberg on behalf of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig to investigate Anna Anderson’s claim, worked with the Scherl Press in Berlin

Kurth, Peter
, Anna Anderson’s biographer

Lavington, Faith
, English tutor at Schloss Seeon

Leuchtenberg, Duke Georg Nikolaievich de Beauharnais
(1872–1929), distantly related to the Romanovs; married (1895) to Princess Olga Repnin-Volkonsky (1872–1953); sheltered Anna Anderson at his Bavarian estate, Schloss Seeon, 1927–1928

Leuchtenberg, Duchess Elena
(1896–1977), eldest daughter of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg

Leuchtenberg, Duke Dimitri
(1898–1972), eldest son of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, married (1921) Catherine (1900–1991)

Leuchtenberg, Duchess Nathalia
(1900), daughter of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, married (1924) Baron Vladimir Meller-Zakomelsky

Leuchtenberg, Duchess Tamara
(1901–1978), daughter of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg

Leuchtenberg, Duke Konstantin
(1905–1983), son of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg

Lilburn, Ian
, historian and expert on the Anna Anderson case

Lücke, Fritz
, editor of the Scherl Press in Berlin, publisher of papers
Die Woche
and
Berliner Nachtausgabe
, worked with Martin Knopf to investigate Anna Anderson’s claim

Ludwig, Prince of Hesse und bei Rhein
(1908–1968), youngest son and only surviving heir of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Anastasia’s first cousin; voluntarily joined as a defendant in Anderson’s civil suit against Barbara, Duchess Christian Ludwig of Mecklenburg

Manahan, John E. (“Jack”)
(1919–1990), married Anna Anderson in 1968

Mecklenburg, Princess Barbara of Prussia, Duchess Christian Ludwig of
(1920–1994), granddaughter and adopted heir of Princess Irene, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, and daughter of Prince Sigismund of Prussia, principal defendant in Anderson’s civil suit

Miliukov, Alexei
, Russian émigré, friend of Gleb Botkin, chronicler of Anna Anderson’s conversations in the 1960s

Mountbatten of Burma, Lord Louis
(1900–1979), youngest son of Empress Alexandra’s sister Victoria, first cousin to Anastasia; helped finance legal opposition to Anna Anderson’s civil case

Osten-Sacken, Baron Vassili
, deputy to Serge Botkin at the Office of Russian Refuges in Berlin

Peuthert, Marie Clara
(born Meissen, 1871–1933), patient at Dalldorf Asylum, Berlin

Rathlef-Keilmann, Harriet von
(1887–1933), sculptor by profession, looked after Anna Anderson 1925–1926, author of the first book on the claimant

Remy, Maurice Philip
, German documentary producer, involved in 1993–1994 legal battle over testing Anna Anderson’s tissue samples

Schwabe, Captain Nicholas von
, former officer in Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna’s Cuirassier Life Guards Regiment, member of the émigré Monarchist Council in Berlin; he and his wife, Alice, periodically sheltered Anna Anderson 1922–1924

Schweitzer, Marina, née Botkin
, daughter of Gleb Botkin; with her husband, attorney Richard Schweitzer, arranged and paid for the 1994 DNA tests on Anna Anderson’s tissue samples

Schweitzer, Richard
, husband of Marina Botkin Schweitzer; arranged and paid for the 1994 DNA tests on Anna Anderson’s tissue sample

Spindler, Gertrude
, friend of Harriet von Rathlef-Keilmann and Anna Anderson supporter; investigated her claim to have stayed in Bucharest

Tolstoy, Zenaide
, aristocratic friend to the imperial family at Tsarskoye Selo

Wasserschleben, Agnes
, former matron at Stillachhaus, tended to Anna Anderson at Schloss Seeon

Zahle, Herluf
(1873–1941), Danish Minister in Berlin, temporary president of the League of Nations, 1928–1929

MODERN SCIENTISTS

Coble, Dr. Michael
, formerly of the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, now Forensic Biologist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, helped identify the Romanov remains uncovered in 2007; conducted new DNA testing on Anna Anderson hair samples in 2010

Podini, Dr. Daniele
, professor at George Washington University, conducted (with Dr. Michael Coble) new DNA tests on Anna Anderson hair samples in 2010

Gill, Dr. Peter
, formerly of the British Home Office’s Forensic Science Services Laboratory, head of the team that conducted 1993–1994 DNA tests on both the exhumed Romanov remains and on tissue and hair samples from Anna Anderson

Mandelbaum, Dr. Syd
, geneticist who made first inquiry about Anna Anderson tissue samples; arranged for testing of Susan Grindstaf Burkhart’s hair sample

Melton, Dr. Terry
, with Dr. Mark Stoneking, conducted DNA tests on the Anna Anderson hair samples at Pennsylvania State University

Stoneking, Dr. Mark
, with Dr. Terry Melton, conducted DNA tests on the Anna Anderson hair samples at Pennsylvania State University

Weedn, Dr. Victor
, conducted privately commissioned DNA tests for Richard and Marina Schweitzer on the Anna Anderson tissue sample at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Maryland