10 Facts About Tatiana Botkina

Tatiana Botkina was the third child and only daughter of Botkin and his wife Olga.

Tatiana Botkina's parents divorced in 1910 under the strain of Dr Botkin's devotion to the royal family and the long hours he spent at court and her mother's affair with a German tutor.

The Botkin children "were not intimate friends" of the imperial children, Tatiana Botkina later recalled, but they did know them fairly well.

Tatiana Botkina chatted on occasion with the younger grand duchesses during World War I, when Tatiana Botkina served as a Red Cross nurse at a hospital in the Catherine Palace.

Tatiana Botkina told her he would allow them to accompany the group as far as the Ekaterinburg station, but they would be arrested and sent back to Tobolsk because he would not grant them an entry permit to live in Ekaterinburg.

When Tatiana Botkina heard the conclusion of the Sokolov Report, that the Tsar, his family and their servants had been killed, her sole consolation was the fact that her father had died trying to shield the Tsar.

Tatiana Botkina divorced her husband some years later and settled near Paris, where she lived the rest of her life.

Tatiana Botkina was first persuaded to visit Anna Anderson in 1926, after hearing about her story from her relative, Sergei Botkin.

Tatiana Botkina was persuaded that the woman was truly Grand Duchess Anastasia after hearing her describe an event that Tatiana Botkina said only she and the youngest grand duchess could have known anything about.

Tatiana Botkina was a supporter of Anderson for the next sixty years and, like her brother Gleb, wrote her own memoirs about her friendship with the imperial family and her time in Russia.