hed. The family stood with their 3 servants; a worker girl, cook, valet, and doctor. Armed men came in the room and began firing. Anastasia's parents, Olga, Dr Botkin, and 2 servants died at once. Bullets bounced off Anastasia, Tatiana, and Marie and richeted around the room. The men did not know, but the girls had sewn jewels into their clothes so they could smuggle them from place to place. Alexei was on the floor groaning but alive, so a soldier shot him in the head. Eventually Tatiana and Marie died, a maid was bayoneted to death. The bodies were thrown down a mine shaft, but later were removed and doused with acid. The remains were thrown into a pit. Anastasia was also bayoneted, but we do not know if she died. "Eighteen bayonet marks embedded in the flooring of the cellar marked the spot where the horrified girl writhed her last." (Kurth, 1986, XIV) Some people say that she could not have survived the bayonet, but others say she did not die at all.
             The most famous "Anastasia" was Anna Anderson. Another claimant was Eugenia smith but refused to submit to DNA testing. On February 1
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