10 Facts About Anastasia Hendrikova

Countess Anastasia Vasilyevna Hendrikova, was a lady in waiting at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

Anastasia Hendrikova was arrested by the Bolsheviks and shot to death outside Perm in the autumn of 1918.

Anastasia Hendrikova, who was nicknamed "Nastenka," was the daughter of Count Vassili Alexandrovich Hendrikov, Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Imperial Court, and his wife, Princess Sophia Petrovna Gagarine.

Anastasia Hendrikova was a member of the Russian nobility as part of the Hendrikov Family.

Anastasia Hendrikova was a descendant of the sister of Catherine I of Russia, the wife of Peter the Great.

Anastasia Hendrikova acted as a "sort of unofficial governess" to the four grand duchesses.

Anastasia Hendrikova was devoted to the Romanov family and followed them into exile after the Russian Revolution of 1917, going with them first to Tobolsk and later to Ekaterinburg, even though she was worried about her own family.

Buxhoeveden thought Anastasia Hendrikova was aware of the danger that she was in.

Anastasia Hendrikova had "so fixed her thoughts on approaching death that it had no terror for her," Buxhoeveden wrote in her memoirs.

Behind him he heard gunshots as the other prisoners in the group, among them Anastasia Hendrikova, were shot and killed.