Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna "Anya" Romanova (Russian: **Анастасия Николаевна Романова**) is the titular main protagonist of the 1997 animated film of the same name.

She is the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and was the only Romanov family member to survive Rasputin's deadly attack.

## Appearance

As an eight-year-old child, Anastasia possessed flawless fair skin, long flowing red hair (naturally curled at the ends), light blue eyes with naturally groomed eyelashes and thick eyebrows.

Ten years later, at eighteen years of age, Anastasia has blossomed into a supremely beautiful, lovely, fair, elegant, charming, alluring, exquisite and stunning and graceful and attractive young woman. Despite her obvious increase in height, slimmed-down appearance, hair length, and physical development, her overall appearance remained generally the same. She seems to be about 5 ft and 8 inches.

Anastasia shares some physical resemblance with her father, Nicholas II he appeared later on in her dream. Although Anastasia's mother, Alexandra, is seen only briefly throughout the entire film, and we are unable to visually compare the two, but if you watch Alexandra closely she shares a great physical resemblance with the adult Anastasia, her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Marie, states that she inherited the beauty of her mother and the laughter of her father. According to Dimitri and Vladimir, Anastasia inherited Empress Alexandra's chin, Empress Marie's hand, and the seemingly renowned blue eyes of the Romanovs.

In the beginning, as an adult, she wore a black newsboy cap, a gold tunic, an olive-green overcoat, black pants, and brown boots. Aboard the ship, she wears a blue dress with white-trimmed sleeves. For the opera, she wore a navy-blue evening dress, with white opera gloves, a silver choker around her neck, diamond earrings hanging from her ears, and her hair was tied into a bun with a silver hairband. Before she entered the opera theater, she was also seen wearing a teal overcoat with a white frilly collar on the rims and white frilly cuffs on the sleeves.

## Personality

From quite early in the film, Anastasia is portrayed as bright, spunky, stubborn, brutally honest, but very kind and caring.

She doesn't behave like royalty even though it runs in her blood.

She also is a tomboy.

She was always naturally independent and had no problem speaking her mind or standing up for herself.

However, she can appear to be insecure and shy at times, such as when Dimitri reveals that she would have to *prove* to Sophie and Marie that she is the Grand Duchess.

According to Vladimir, she was quite notorious for her mischief among the palace staff during the Romanov reign.

One of Anastasia's most obvious personality traits is her high level of determination.

As seen in the film, once Anastasia sets a goal for herself, she sticks to that goal until she is satisfied with her success, despite her frequent displays of insecurity.

In this case, she was determined to find her family in Paris, and refused to stop until she succeeded.

## Skills & Abilities

* High intelligence
* Elegance
* Poise
* Agility

## Family

* Alexander III of Russia † (paternal grandfather)
* Marie Feodorovna (paternal grandmother)
* Alexandra Feodorovna † (mother)
* Nicholas II of Russia † (father)
* Olga †, Tatiana † and Maria Nikolaevna Romanova † (older sisters)
* Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov † (younger brother)
* Sophie Stanislovskievna Somorkov-Smirnoff (third cousin)
* Dimitri (husband)

## Voice Actress

* Kristen Dunst (child voice)
* Meg Ryan (speaking voice)
* Lacey Chabert (child singing voice)
* Liz Callaway (singing voice)