While conventional history, subsequently confirmed by DNA tests, had all the Tsar's children die with him; there were also many Romanov impostors. The Krüger story was that in 1917, as the Russian revolution unfolded Emperor Nicholas II of Russia summoned Pyotr Ivanovich Zamyatin, a soldier serving as a cavalry assistant in a squadron guarding the Russian Imperial Family, and in the presence of the Minister of War and a priest he instructed the soldier to take Grand Duchess Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexis into hiding while the two Imperial children were replaced by doppelgangers. Originally they were taken to Zamyatin's home village in the area around Odessa, however, as the revolution was not subsiding a decision was taken to leave Russia. On 7 February 1920 with the assistance of a Serbian man they all boarded a ship from Odessa to Alexandria, Egypt. While boarding the ship a scuffle occurred that was accompanied by shooting on the pier and Anastasia was wounded. Holding a dog in front of her was the reason why the wounds were not fatal. This prevented them from reaching their final destination and they left the ship in Tekirdağ, Turkey to seek treatment.