Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

Anastasia Nikolaevna was born in June 1901, the fourth daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna - younger sister to Olga, Tatiana, and Maria, older sister to the heir Alexei. On 17 July 1918, Bolsheviks murdered her and her family in Yekaterinburg. The burial site remained unknown for decades, and in that silence the rumors grew: perhaps she had escaped. Impostors emerged, most famously Anna Anderson, whose claim unraveled only after her death when DNA testing in 1994 proved no relation. The real grave came to light in 1991, three daughters' remains interred in 1998; Anastasia's body and Alexei's were found in 2007. DNA confirmed what the rumors had denied: she died with them all, at seventeen, in that basement.