In spite of depictions in various dramatizaions, Maria Feodorovna never met Anna Anderson, the impostor who falsely claimed to be her murdered granddaughter Anastasia.

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.

** Anna Anderson, Pretender to the Russian throne ( b. 1896 )

* December 16 – Anna Anderson, Pretender to the Russian throne ( d. 1984 )

* February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

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

* Kurth, Peter, Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson, Back Bay Books, 1983, ISBN 0-316-50717-2

Several women have falsely claimed to have been Anastasia, the most notorious of whom was Anna Anderson.

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

Anna Anderson, the most notorious Anastasia impostor, first surfaced publicly between 1920 and 1922.

According to Dr. Gill who conducted the tests, " If you accept that these samples came from Anna Anderson, then Anna Anderson could not be related to Tsar Nicholas or Tsarina Alexandra.

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

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.

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* Anna Anderson, who may have really believed she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

The film was loosely based on the true story of a former inmate in a German asylum who became known as ' Anna Anderson ' and whose story made headlines for decades.

Anna Anderson ( 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984 ) was the best known of several impostors who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

However, the sample matched DNA provided by Karl Maucher, a grandson of Franziska Schanzkowska's sister, Gertrude ( Schanzkowska ) Ellerik, indicating that Karl Maucher and Anna Anderson were maternally related and that Anderson was Schanzkowska.

The film was released at the same time as Is Anna Anderson Anastasia?

Playwright Royce Ryton wrote I Am Who I Am about Anna Anderson in 1978.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Maria was a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Reverend Primus Priss Alston and Anna Elizabeth Miller Alston, and was the youngest of five children.

She was a daughter of Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań and Anna of Mazovia.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

He and Anna named it Cedar Hill ( also spelled CedarHill ).

Fellini also worked with Rossellini on the anthology film L ' Amore ( 1948 ), co-writing the screenplay and in one segment titled, " The Miracle ", acting opposite Anna Magnani.

Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

In France, there was also feminist activity inside individualist anarchism as promoted by individualist feminists Marie Küge, Anna Mahé, Rirette Maitrejean, and Sophia Zaïkovska.

It is also true that none of Cocteau's works has inspired as much imitation: Francis Poulenc's opera La Voix humaine, Gian Carlo Menotti's " opera bouffa " The Telephone and Roberto Rosselini's film version in Italian with Anna Magnani L ' Amore ( 1948 ).

The United States also negotiated a secret arrangement with Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican general and dictator who had been overthrown in 1844.

He was also the front man for his own band " Moon " who were co-writers on songs such as, " Lovin ' Lady ", " Jo Anna " and " She's Puttin ' Me Through Changes ".

Joseph and Charles VI were also descendants of Anna of Bohemia and William of Thuringia, having that blood through their mother, although they were heirs-general of neither line.

It also has produced hardcore sex films: Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ), HotMen CoolBoyz ( 2000 ) and All About Anna ( 2005 ).

He also had a brother ( name unknown ), and a sister named Anna who was born deaf-mute.

She also appeared in The Good Night, playing two characters, Anna and Melody.

The city is also home of the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the 12th century and also has the mythic Napoleonic Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant ' Anna School of Advanced Studies as the best Superior Graduate Schools in Italy.

He had a startling fondness for scatological humor, which is preserved in his surviving letters, notably those written to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart around 1777 – 1778, but also in his correspondence with his sister and parents.

They have three children: Rebecca, Daniel ( also an actor ) and Anna ( also known as Georgia Mitchell ).

Santa Anna also sent a strongly worded letter to Andrew Jackson, the United States president, warning that any Americans found fighting the Mexican government would be treated as pirates.

Sigismund ( or Siegmund, sometimes also spelled Sigmund ) was born in Innsbruck ; his parents were Frederick IV, Duke of Austria and Anna of Brunswick.

He also gained a considerable portion of Silesian territory, partly by inheritance through his third wife, Anna von Schweidnitz, daughter of Henry II, Duke of Świdnica and Catherine of Hungary.

** Gleb (~ 987 ), Prince of Murom ( 1013 – 1015 ), as Boris, Gleb is being also claimed the son of Anna Porphyrogenita

On July 21, a madam from a brothel in Gary, Indiana, Ana Cumpănaş, also known as Anna Sage, contacted the police.

Fort also had a small circle of literary friends and they would gather on occasion at various apartments, including his own, to drink and talk which was tolerated by Anna.

Beginning when he directed a production at Milan's Teatro alla Scala of La vestale in December 1954, his career included a famous revival of La traviata at La Scala in 1955 with Maria Callas and an equally famous Anna Bolena ( also at La Scala ) in 1957 with Callas.

It passes from these balconies: Santa Croce, San Frediano, San Martino, San Pietro / Battisti, San Salvatore, La Libertà / Cairoli, San Regolo, San Colombano, Santa Maria, San Paolino / Catalani, and San Donato ; also pass over these gates: Porta San Donato, Porta Santa Maria, Porta San Jocopo, Porta Elisa, Porta San Pietro, and Porta Sant ' Anna.