He was married twice, to Valide Sultan Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan, originally named Maria, a Greek, mother of Osman II, and to Valide Sultan Kadinefendi Kösem Sultan or Mahpeyker, originally named Anastasia, a Greek, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim I.

In 1956, Sullivan flew to Europe and was able to film an interview with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes on the set of the film Anastasia.

Long after the execution-style murders of the Russian Imperial Family, Mountbatten was called upon to authoritatively rebut impostors ' claims to be the living Grand Duchess Anastasia, who had been his first cousin.

In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in the animated musical film Anastasia.

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.

She was portrayed by Helen Hayes in the London production of the play Anastasia and in the 1956 film based on the play.

The Empress was voiced by Angela Lansbury in the 1997 Fox Animation Studios feature film Anastasia.

In April 2010, the naked-eye star ζ Ophiuchi was occulted by 824 Anastasia.

His son Romano ( 1268 – 1327 ), called Romanello, was Royal Vicar of Rome in 1326, and inherited the countship of Soana through his marriage with Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola.

There, at the suggestion of Jonathas, the Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano, who was a partisan of the Pierleoni family, the Cardinals unanimously elected as Pope the Cardinal-Priest of Sant ’ Anastasia, Theobaldo Boccapecci, who took the name Celestine II.

He was born into an Illyrian family, the son of Pompeius ( born c. 410 ), nobleman of Dyrrachium, and wife Anastasia Constantina ( born c. 410 ).

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.

Among his children by Anastasia, the elder ( Ivan ) was murdered by the tsar in a quarrel ; the younger Feodor, a pious and lethargic prince, inherited the throne upon his father's death.

Later, an American scientist concluded from dental, vertebral, and other remnants that it was Anastasia and Alexei who were missing.

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

In 1493 he was appointed Cardinal priest of the church of St. Anastasia in Rome by Pope Alexander VI.

To back up an armistice signed with the Byzantine Empire in 1046, his father married him to Byzantine Anastasia ( d. 1067 ), who tradition holds was a daughter of Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos by his second wife ( he gained the Imperial throne through his third marriage ), but no reliable source has ever been found to confirm this.

* In the 1950s, Anna Anderson claimed that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

Among these were several of the mob-affiliated hitmen belonging to the murder-for-hire group Murder, Inc., which was headed up by major mob leaders Louis " Lepke " Buchalter and Albert Anastasia.

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

" This group of " Young Turk " mafiosi was led by Luciano and included Costello, Genovese, Adonis, Gambino and Anastasia on the Masseria side and Profaci, Gagliano, Lucchese, Magliocco and Magaddino on the Maranzano side.

Anastasia took control of his family, but was gunned down in October 1957.

She was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and an elder sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, all of whom were falsely rumored to have survived the assassination of the Imperial Family.

** Shooting of the Romanov family: By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and retainers are executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

On the night of 16 / 17 July 1918, a squad of Bolshevik secret police ( Cheka ), led by Yakov Yurovsky, executed Russia's last Emperor, Nicholas II, along with his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, their four daughters – Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia – and son Alexei.

During World War I Anastasia, along with her sister Maria, visited wounded soldiers at a private hospital on the grounds at Tsarskoye Selo.

Felix Dassel, who was treated at the hospital and knew Anastasia, recalled that the grand duchess had a " laugh like a squirrel ," and walked rapidly " as though she tripped along.

The real Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra, was killed along with her parents and siblings on 17 July 1918 by communist revolutionaries in Ekaterinburg, Russia ; but the location of her body was unknown until 2008.

In that period, many valuable monuments and artifacts along the Croatian coast were made, such as the Cathedral of St. Anastasia, Zadar ( natively, St. Stošija ) in Zadar ( 13th century ).

The lawyer for the Kungayeva family, Stanislav Markelov, who had attempted a last-minute appeal against the release of Budanov, was shot dead in Moscow on January 19, 2009 along with Anastasia Baburova, a 25-year-old journalist for Novaya Gazeta.

Allegedly, the meeting was held to discuss various topics including loansharking, narcotics trafficking and gambling along with dividing the illegal operations controlled by the late Albert Anastasia.

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss La Cosa Nostra operations such as gambling, casinos and narcotics dealing along with the dividing the illegal operations controlled by the recently killed Albert Anastasia.

A partnership consisting of Paul Nakis ( whom is involved in the Baton Rouge Restaurant chain among others ), his granddaughter Anastasia, René Angélil with his wife Celine Dion, and nephews Eric and Martin Sara ( sons of Paul Sara, former owner –– along with Angélil, of the Nickles restaurant chain ).

Levine was a member of the notorious Mafia gang, Murder, Inc., and is credited with being the trigger man, with Dutch Schultz lieutenant Abraham " Bo " Weinberg, in the 1931 murders of Joe " The Boss " Masseria and, along with Joe Adonis, Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, one of the three hitmen sent by Meyer Lansky to assassinate the Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano in his office.

The 1986 NBC-TV miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, in which Olivia de Havilland portrays the Dowager Empress, represents the latter as considering a personal meeting with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

In May 2012, a Belarusian production directed by Anastasia Grinenko ( Belarus ), with choreography by Paul Emerson ( USA ) and Dmitry Yakubovich ( Belarus ) opened at the Belarus State Musical Theatre.

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

Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Anastasia and the dog Ortino in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo in the spring of 1917 At Yekaterinburg, Tatiana occasionally joined her younger sisters in chatting with some of the guards over tea, asking them questions about their families and talking about her hopes for a new life in England when they were released.

Prince Christian and Princess Alexandrine with their son Frederick IX of Denmark | Frederick in 1900. Christian married Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Cannes on 26 April 1898 ; she was a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia.

Living up to her nicknames, young Anastasia grew into a vivacious and energetic child, described as short and inclined to be chubby, with blue eyes and strawberry-blonde hair.

Anastasia and her siblings were taught to view Rasputin as " Our Friend " and to share confidences with him.

Grand Duchess Anastasia with her mother, Tsarina Alexandra, in about 1908.

Grand Duchess Anastasia with her brother Alexei.

Rasputin was buried with an icon signed on its reverse by Anastasia, her mother and her sisters.

" At Tobolsk, she wrote a melancholy theme for her English tutor, filled with spelling mistakes, about Evelyn Hope, a poem by Robert Browning about a young girl: " When she died she was only sixteen years old ," Anastasia wrote.

Grand Duchess Anastasia sits with her mother, Alexandra, and sister Olga in her mother's sitting room ca.

In a May 7, 1918 letter from Tobolsk to her sister Maria in Yekaterinburg, Anastasia described a moment of joy despite her sadness and loneliness and worry for the sick Alexei: " We played on the swing, that was when I roared with laughter, the fall was so wonderful!

Ermakov then struggled with Anastasia, failed to stab her, and said he killed her, too, with a shot to the head.

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.

Rumors of Anastasia's survival were embellished with various contemporary reports of trains and houses being searched for ' Anastasia Romanov ' by Bolshevik soldiers and secret police.

The Russians identified Anastasia by using a computer program to compare photos of the youngest grand duchess with the skulls of the victims from the mass grave.

She was scheduled to return to the American stage in a 1982 revival of Anastasia with Natalie Wood, until Wood's death just weeks before rehearsals.