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holy trinity orthodox monastery january 31 , 1997 -lrb- aged 97 -rrb- north kingstown , rhode island , usa eugenia drabek smetisko 250p 1899 romanov impostor who claimed to be grand duchess anastasia eugeniasmith.jpg eugenia smith
 eugenia smith
eugenia smith

eugenia smith -lrb- 1899 -- january 31 , 1997 -rrb- , also known as eugenia drabek smetisko , was one of several romanov impostors who claimed to be the grand duchess anastasia , youngest daughter of tsar nicholas ii , the last autocratic ruler of imperial russia , and his wife tsarina alexandra .
smith is the author of `` autobiography of hih anastasia nicholaevna of russia '' -lrb- 1963 -rrb- , in which she recounts `` her '' life in the russian imperial family up to the time when bolsheviks murdered them at ekaterinburg , and `` she escaped '' the massacre .
although after world war ii there were at least ten claimants to the identity of grand duchess anastasia , only anna anderson and eugenia smith achieved more than a small circle of believers .
the real anastasia was killed along with her parents and siblings on july 17 , 1918 , but this was not known with absolute certainty until the missing body of one of the romanov sisters was found and identified in 2008 .
