Борис Романов
Anna-Anastaia: the old and new versions and discussion
It is also known that in 1942 in the occupied territory in Kamenetz-Podolsk region (on the border with Romania), during a search in one of the houses, Baron von Schenk found a leaflet of the Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), 1918, which reported a search for runaway of the emperor's daughter Anastasia ([http://proza.ru/2009/11/18/918 V. Momot. "The Mystery of Princess Anastasia"])(Mark Kasvinov. Twenty-three steps down. – Moscow, Publishing House "Thought", 1987 – in Russian).
See also: http://proza.ru/2009/11/18/918
Thus, Anastasia had succeeded to avoid death on that fatal night, but how?
3. Yurovskiy himself explained it (indirectly \sarcastic smile\, but convincingly:). In his speech on the 1st of February of 1934 on the conference of old Bolsheviks in the city of Sverdlovsk, he told about the shooting of Tsar’s family. This is how he described incident, which had taken place after the shooting: “When the first dead bodies were carried away, I was told, but don’t remember exactly by whom, that somebody had taken valuables. Then I understood that obviously, there had been value in things taken by them. I immediately held a meeting, gathered people, and required to return valuables that were taken. After some denial two people, who had taken the valuables, returned them. After threatening the ones who would loot with shooting I removed those two, and ordered comrade Nikulin, as far as I remember, to accompany the transport, after warning him that to shoot those who had valuables…”.
See http://proza.ru/2008/08/15/195 (SASR /The State Archive of Sverdlovsk Region/ F.472. In.1, D.17. Sh.293-296)
Thus, during this incident, around the bodies in yard could be only soldiers of outer guard. Evidently, it was they who carried the wounded Anastasia out of the yard of Ipat’ev’s house.
4. About the fact of Anastasia’s disappearance testifies the announcement of Housing Commissariat in newspaper “Izvestia” №138 of 21st of July, 1918. Before adducing the text of that message, it has to be reminded, that the announcement of Ural Council about Nikolas II’s shooting was made on a meeting in a new city theater on the 22d of July, while the official announcement of Central Executive Committee of Soviets of 19th of July was published in newspaper “Ural worker” only on 23d of July. Until that moment, the information about the assassination had been kept in the strictest confidence. The search for Anastasia by the chekists under false pretense caused the wave of discontent among city people. As a result the following announcement appeared in newspaper:
“Rumours have come to Housing Commissariat’s notice that some unknown people on behalf of Commissariat inspect apartments and rooms without having proper certificate for that, and that is why the Housing Commissariat brings to all Yekaterinburg citizens’ notice that one must admit for buildings’ examinations only those people who can present card of the Housing Commissariat showing the right for inspection with attached stamp. In the event of those who come without cards or with cards but without attachment of stamp, one must immediately inform on the phone number 7-35 and 6-26, in order to apprehend offenders. Housing Commissar, Zhilinskiy.”
See http://proza.ru/2008/08/15/195
Thus, we can be sure that Anastasia was rescued during the night July 17, 1918, that immediately after it, the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg were looking for her, and that they later searched for her in Kamenets-Podolsky (on the border of Soviet Russia, Romania)
In addition:
Conclusion of the group of american anthropologists headed by doctor William Mapples, the director of the S.A. Pound laboratory of identification of human remains, became the stumbling block. After examination of the found remains, Mapples came to conclusion, that among them the remains of 17-year old Duchess Anastasia were absent, because he didn't find the remains which would be in accordance with her age and height. But the skeleton No.5 is absolutely in accordance with Maria's age and height. The substantiations of conclusions on that matter and polemics with Russian colleagues doctor Mapples stated in detailed writing in his book "Dead men do tell tales" [William R. Maples, Ph.D. and Michael Browning "Dead men do tell tales". New York. 1994. 238-268].
See http://proza.ru/2008/08/15/195
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Among the general public there is widely believed that DNA tests of second "Yekaterinburg remains" (in 2007-2010) had closed the theme of Anastasia's rescue. Even some specialists and historians refer for this to the article «Mystery Solved: The Identification of the Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis» by Dr. Michael D. Coble (and other authors):
