A Russian author has sensationally claimed Grand Duchess Anastasia - the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II - may have survived and successfully managed to escape to the West. According to ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

In 1984 she was recognized as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and then by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1992. I am leaving a glittering world where I had a glittering position, but with ...