Murad IV was born in Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ahmed I ( 1603 – 17 ) and the ethnic Greek Valide Sultan Kösem Sultan ( also known as Mahpeyker ), originally named Anastasia.

His mother was an Arian, sister of Clearchus, also an Arian, and a paternal granddaughter of Gallus ( born c. 370 ), son of Anastasia ( born c. 352 ) and husband, in turn daughter of Flavius Claudius Constantius Gallus and wife and cousin Constantina.

Nicholas and Alexandra also had four daughters ( Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia ).

He also secured an alliance with the nascent Grand Duchy of Moscow by marrying his daughter, Anastasia, to the grand duke Simeon.

Samara is also home to Semyon Varlamov of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, as well as young up and coming tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

" Anastasia also had a deformity of her left foot, as did famous imposter, Anna Anderson.

Utkin also told the White Russian Army investigators that the injured girl, whom he treated at Cheka headquarters in Perm, told him, " I am the daughter of the ruler, Anastasia.

There were also reports from Bulgaria of the survival of Anastasia and her younger brother Tsarevich Alexei.

Charlottesville was also the home of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia and to have survived the massacre of the Russian Imperial Family.

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

In his biography The Valachi Papers, Mafia turncoat Joe Valachi insisted Murder, Inc. did not commit crimes for the Mafia, but this is contradicted by other sources, and Albert Anastasia was also head of a Mafia crime family.

Reles also testified that he helped plan the murder of Shuman with Lepke, who was a fugitive at the time, and Mendy Weiss and that Lepke received approval from Albert Anastasia to use a person who lived outside Brooklyn to help with completing the assignment.

Hayes ' mother died in June 1872, and his father later remarried around 1876 ; a stepsister, Anastasia, was also born that year.

Anastasia was the most popular name for baby girls in Moscow, Russia in 2008, and is also a popular name in a number of other republics of the former Soviet Union.

She also lost in the first round of the French Open Grand Slam to Anastasia Myskina.

However, Genovese needed to also remove Costello's strong ally on the Commission ; Albert Anastasia, the feared boss of the Anastasia crime family.

MGM cast Sothern in the film Maisie ( 1939 ), as brassy Brooklyn burlesque dancer Mary Anastasia O ' Connor who also goes by the stage name Maisie Ravier.

His testimony convicted seven members of Murder Inc. Reles also had information that could implicate Anastasia in the 1939 Diamond and Panto murders.

Anastasia was also supported by Joseph Bonanno, who simply wanted to avoid a gang war.

However, Genovese could not kill Costello without also eliminating Anastasia.

Irving also appeared in the TV show Alias as Emily Sloane, portrayed Princess Anjuli in the big-budget miniseries epic The Far Pavilions and headlined the lavish TV production Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.

Her brother Samuel and sister Anastasia are also marathon runners.

Flaherty was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards with Lynn Ahrens for his songs and song score for the animated film musical Anastasia.

Anastasia was seventeen years, one month old at the time of the murder, while Maria was nineteen years and one month old.

Vsevolod and his first wife Anastasia ( daughter of Constantine IX Monomachos ) had only one known son:

Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of Edward IV of England, was one of Guy's descendants through his daughter, Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola.

Vincent Mangano had mysteriously disappeared in 1951 ; by nearly all accounts he'd been murdered by Albert Anastasia, one of the most feared men in the syndicate.

Those bodies were identified as Tsarevich Alexei and one of the four grand duchesses, generally thought by Russians to be Grand Duchess Maria and by Americans to be Grand Duchess Anastasia.

Anastasia was seventeen years, one month old at the time of the assassination, while her sister Maria was nineteen years, one month old and their brother Alexei was two weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday.

The mass grave near Ekaterinburg which held the remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three daughters was revealed in 1991, but the bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and one of his sisters — either Anastasia or her older sister Maria — were not discovered there.

" Other family nicknames for Anastasia were " Malenkaya ," meaning " little ( one )," or " shvibzik ," the Russian word for " imp.

Margaretta Eagar, a governess to the four Grand Duchesses, said one person commented that the toddler Anastasia had the greatest personal charm of any child she had ever seen.

Nagorny tried to come to her assistance ; he was roughly pushed back by one of the commisars ..." Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden told of her sad last glimpse of Anastasia: " Once, standing on some steps at the door of a house close by, I saw a hand and a pink-sleeved arm opening the topmost pane.

" In his memoirs, one of the guards at the Ipatiev House, Alexander Strekotin, remembered Anastasia as " very friendly and full of fun ," while another guard said Anastasia was " a very charming devil!

According to some accounts, at one point Anastasia became so upset about the locked, painted windows that she opened one to look outside and get fresh air.

The last victims, Maria, Anastasia and the maid Demidova, were on the floor beneath the room's one window.

Although Ermakov's archived statement does not say so, he told his wife that Anastasia was finished off with bayonets, while Yurovsky wrote that as the bodies were carried out, one or more of the girls cried out and were clubbed on the back of the head.

Anna Anderson was one of at least ten women who claimed to be Anastasia.

Anastasia was seventeen years and one month old at the time of the assassination, while her sister Maria was nineteen years, one month old and her brother Alexei was two weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday.

DNA testing by multiple international laboratories such as the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory and Innsbruck Medical University confirmed that the remains belong to the Tsarevich Alexei and to one of his sisters, proving conclusively that all family members, including Anastasia, died in 1918.

Adonis ' departure left Costello weakened, but Genovese still had to neutralize one more powerful Costello ally, Albert Anastasia.

There was one other death, 18-year-old female student Anastasia Rebecca de Sousa, nineteen more were injured, eight critically.