In 1920, Anderson was institutionalized in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt in Berlin.
27 Facts About Anna Anderson
2.
In March 1922, claims that Anna Anderson was a Russian grand duchess first received public attention.
3.
Between 1922 and 1968, Anna Anderson lived in Germany and the United States with various supporters and in nursing homes and sanatoria, including at least one asylum.
4.
Anna Anderson was rescued by a police sergeant and was admitted to the Elisabeth Hospital on Lutzowstrasse.
5.
Anna Anderson was visited by the Tsarina's groom of the chamber Alexei Volkov; Anastasia's tutor Pierre Gilliard; his wife, Alexandra Tegleva, who had been Anastasia's nursemaid; and the Tsar's sister, Grand Duchess Olga.
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Anna Anderson's defect is obviously in her memory and eyesight.
7.
Anna Anderson had been injured in the head, and a foreman was killed in front of her.
8.
Anna Anderson became apathetic and depressed, was declared insane on 19 September 1916, and spent time in two lunatic asylums.
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From early 1929 Anna Anderson lived with Annie Burr Jennings, a wealthy Park Avenue spinster happy to host someone she supposed to be a daughter of the Tsar.
10.
For eighteen months, Anna Anderson was the toast of New York City society.
11.
Anna Anderson was forcibly taken to the Four Winds Sanatorium in Westchester County, New York, where she remained for slightly over a year.
12.
Anna Anderson again lived itinerantly as a guest of her well-wishers.
13.
Anna Anderson had a final meeting with the Schanzkowski family in 1938.
14.
Gertrude Schanzkowska was insistent that Anna Anderson was her sister, Franziska, but the Nazi government had arranged the meeting to determine Anna Anderson's identity, and if accepted as Schanzkowska she would be imprisoned.
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Towards the end of World War II, Anna Anderson lived at Schloss Winterstein with Louise of Saxe-Meiningen, in what became the Soviet occupation zone.
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Lili Dehn, a friend of Tsarina Alexandra, visited her and acknowledged her as Anastasia, but when Charles Sydney Gibbes, English tutor to the imperial children, met Anna Anderson he denounced her as a fraud.
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In May 1968, Anna Anderson was taken to a hospital at Neuenburg after being discovered semi-conscious in her cottage.
18.
Anna Anderson entered the country on a six-month visitor's visa, and shortly before it was due to expire, Anderson married Manahan, who was 20 years her junior, in a civil ceremony on 23 December 1968.
19.
On 20 August 1979, Anna Anderson was taken to Charlottesville's Martha Jefferson Hospital with an intestinal obstruction.
20.
Anna Anderson was cremated the same day, and her ashes were buried in the churchyard at Castle Seeon on 18 June 1984.
21.
Similarly, several strands of Anna Anderson's hair, found inside an envelope in a book that had belonged to Anna Anderson's husband, Jack Manahan, were tested.
22.
Conflicting testimonies and physical evidence, such as comparisons of facial characteristics, which alternately supported and contradicted Anna Anderson's claim, were used either to bolster or to counter the belief that she was Anastasia.
23.
In 1957, a version of Anna Anderson's story, pieced together by her supporters and interspersed with commentary by Roland Krug von Nidda, was published in Germany under the title Ich, Anastasia, Erzahle.
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Anna Anderson lost that person totally and accepted completely she was this new person.
25.
Anna Anderson's origins are unknown and as the play progresses hints are dropped that she could be the real Anastasia, who has lost her memory.
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The viewer is left to decide whether Anna Anderson really is Anastasia.
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In 1986, a two-part fictionalized made for television mini-series titled Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna Anderson appeared which starred Amy Irving and won her a Golden Globe nomination.