Talk:Anna Anderson/Archive 1

message: This is of interest, but belongs in a different article, to which this one and Anastasia could link to:
*The Great Romanov Deception - Gives an account of Alexis and Anastasia Romanov escaping to the United States and living as Joseph and Magdalene Veres. Includes various photographs.
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I think we can't say that Anna ANderson was not Anastasia. I'm doing a persusive projct on this.
:I have to agree with you. Anna Anderson was not Anastasia, but I think it's also fair to say that Anna wasn't sure of it all herself. I don't think she was Anastasia though, despite everything. The DNA test was enough for me, but also I feel she didn't look like Anastasia. There are features on her face that are vastly different from Anastasia. To be honest, they are entirely sure it *was* Anastasia's body that was missing. I've heard more people tend to believe now that it was in fact Maria.--80.193.19.191 16:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, we can say this.  The DNA proved that she was not a mitochondrial descendant of Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse.  If she had been, her mDNA would have matched that of the Duke of Edinburgh, Anastasia's maternal first cousin once removed. john k 15:20, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe AA was Anastasia. It's nice to believe that one of thre Tsar's daughters escaped death, but I think that they all died. Besides, it is widely thought now that the two bodies missing were Alexei and Maria, not Anastasia. Alexei and Maria's bodies were probably burnt, I'm not sure why but that's what I believe. There was a Russian woman living in South Africa called Alina who told her husband's family there that she was a Russia noble whose family were murdered at that she barely escaped with her life. She talked about events that happened to the Tsar's family long before they were revealed to the public. When word came out that one of the Tsar's family had escaped, she was always nervous when police came around, guard etc... Her family began to think she was Anastasia, though she never claimed to be one of their family. After her death, when the news came out about the missing bodies, that one of them was Alexei and the other was either Anastasia or Maria (Thought to be Maria now), her grandson started to believe that Alina was Maria. I took an interest into his story and though I still believe all the children died, I believe in Alina over AA anyday. --Camblunt100 11:21, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: Anna Anderson's article does NOT belong in the Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov catagory. She was not a member of this family, therefore does not belong there. Morhange 22:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
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message: There are so many inflammatory phrases inserted into this otherwise well-written article that I hardly know where to begin...it appears that the most recent editor has some sort of axe to grind on this subject, so should I put up the POV check or simply attempt to edit?  A Runyon 19:03, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article seems to be fine now.  I've removed the POV tag.  If anyone disagrees, feel free to undo.  Give a reason though.  Ikh 10:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

text: The article was originally written by me, who does not believe that.  It has attracted a great deal of pro-Anderson cruft over the last three years.  I'm not sure how to deal with it.  I removed some particularly awful nonsense a few weeks ago, but it's bound to creep back. john k 02:28, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV dispute 

message: If she was a "Miss Unknown" who claimed to be a Romanov who married a Tschaikovsky and then a Manahan, where does the name "Anderson" come from?
:She started using it in the 20s, I think. john k 17:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  conspicuously missing info: "Anderson" 

message: They were not 'close childhood friends' of the Imperial Family. Mstislava 15:27, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gleb and Tatiana Botkin