Анастасия или Анна? Величайшая загадка дома Романовых

1. Hall, Little Mother, 342; Alexander Mikhailovich, Always a Grand Duke, 7, 212; Marie Pavlovna, Princess in Exile, 102.

2. Xenia Alexandrovna to Michael Thornton, quoted in Thornton to Phenix, letter of January 10, 1998, in Phenix, 237.

3. See Bella Cohen, New York Times, March 28, 1926.

4. Olga Alexandrovna to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, letter of December 22, 1925, in Hamburg, Bln III, 181–182.

5. Zahle to Gilliard, letter of October 16, 1925, in Gilliard and Savitch, 69.

6. Rathlef-Keilmann, 105.

7. Gilliard and Savitch, 70.

8. Rathlef-Keilmann, 98.

9. AA (signed as Anastasia Tchaikovsky), affidavit of August 10, 1938, Berlin, in Hamburg, Bln I, 92–100.

10. Cohen in New York Times, March 28, 1926.

11. Gilliard and Savitch, 70.

12. Olga Alexandrovna to Anatole Mordvinov, letter of December 4, 1925, in Hamburg, XIII, 2091–2092.

13. Rathlef-Keilmann, 106.

14. Vorres, 174.

15. Rathlef-Keilmann, statement of November 20, 1926, in Hamburg, XIII, 2261–2270; Gilliard and Savitch, 70–71; Olga Alexandrovna to Mordvinov, letter of December 4, 1925, in Hamburg, XIII, 2091–2092.

16. Rathlef-Keilmann, 99.

17. Gilliard and Savitch, 70–72; Vorres, 175.

18. Rathlef-Keilmann, 104.

19. Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–73; Rathlef-Keilmann, 102.

20. Zahle report, undated, quoted in Auclères, 74.

21. Rathlef-Keilmann, statement of November 20, 1926, in Hamburg, XIII, 2261–2270.

22. Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–73.

23. Rathlef-Keilmann, 104.

24. Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter of July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

25. Gilliard and Savitch, 72–75.

26. See Nicholas von Schwabe, statement of June 10, 1922, in Hamburg, XIV, 2519–2534; Nicholas von Schwabe to Gilliard, letter of December 12, 1926 in Hamburg, Bln III, 208; Gilliard and Savitch, 72–75; Olga Alexandrovna to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, letter of December 22, 1925, in Hamburg, Bln III, 181–182.

27. Gilliard and Savitch, 75.

28. Olga Alexandrovna to Gilliard, letter of November 1, 1925, quoted in Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

29. Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

30. Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–74.

31. Olga Alexandrovna to Mordvinov, letter of December 4, 1925, in Hamburg, XIII, 2091–2092.

32. Rathlef-Keilmann, 106.

33. Gilliard to Zahle, letter of June 13, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 82.

34. Rathlef-Keilmann, 107.

35. Ibid., 106.

36. Olga Alexandrovna to Zahle, letter of October 31, 1925, in Hamburg, XXXII, 6025–6026.

37. Undated letter from Olga Alexandrovna to AA, quoted in «Application to the Amstgericht Court, Berlin, in the Matter of the Estate of Anastasia Nikolaievna Romanov, Case No. 461.VE.733/38,» pleading submitted by Paul Leverkuehn and Kurt Vermehren on behalf of AA, October 31, 1938, and lodged in Hamburg under Bln, 33.

38. «Application to the Amstgericht Court, Berlin, in the Matter of the Estate of Anastasia Nikolaievna Romanov, Case No. 461.VE.733/38,» pleading submitted by Paul Leverkuehn and Kurt Vermehren on behalf of AA, October 31, 1938, and lodged in Hamburg under Bln, 33–34.

39. Alexandra Gilliard to Lillian Zahle, letter of December 14, 1925, cited in Kurth, 124.

40. National Tidende, Copenhagen, January 16, 1926.

41. Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II/281–307.

42. See Cohen, New York Times, March 28, 1926. Cohen claimed to have heard details of the visits not only from Rathlef-Keilmann but also from the Gilliards at the Danish legation, an unlikely assertion that has proved impossible to verify. Aside from erroneously claiming that Frau Tchaikovsky had not been warned in advance of her visitors, and had greeted Olga Alexandrovna by name, Cohen’s article inaccurately insisted, among other things, that the patient «bears bullet wounds on her body and scars of a knife on her face and skull»; that Professor Serge Rudnev had treated Anastasia in 1914; and that while delirious, the patient had spoken in Russian to Professor Rudnev – the latter something that, had it actually occurred, would certainly have been noted by Rathlef-Keilmann.

43. Xenia Georgievna, Mrs. Herman Jud, testimony of February 10, 1958, at the West German consulate in New York City, in Hamburg, IV, 749–751.

44. Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich to Serge Botkin, letter of March 14, 1927, quoted in Horan, 104.

45. See Rathlef-Keilmann, 107; Botkin, Woman Who Rose Again, 41–42.

46. Tatiana Botkin to Serge Botkin, letter of October 27, 1926, cited in Kurth, 120; information from Ian Lilburn to the authors.