Анастасия или Анна? Величайшая загадка дома Романовых

1. Baron Osten-Sacken, letter of February 1926, quoted in Kurth, 129.

2. Olga Alexandrovna to Gilliard, letter of January 16, 1926, quoted in Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter of July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

3. Olga Alexandrovna to Mordvinov, letter of January 1, 1927, in Hamburg, XXIII, 4368.

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

5. See Kurth, 118.

6. Zahle questionnaire, in Hamburg, XVIII, 7–16. King Christian X abruptly terminated Zahle’s investigation into the case, and when he retired, the former diplomat handed over all of his notes and files to the Danish Royal Archives. Those interested in Anderson’s case have long suspected that the dossiers Zahle turned over to King Christian X held important evidence in her favor. Repeated requests to Queen Margrethe II for access have always been refused, on the grounds that the papers are in the private family archives and thus not subject to ordinary disclosure. (See, for example, Spectator, London, July 18, 1992.) Private inquiries, however, now suggest that they remain restricted because the Danish minister was rather too adamant in expressing his own personal opinions of the royal personages involved and discussing private behavior unrelated to the claim that would prove embarrassing to the Romanovs and to their crowned relations.

7. Prince Friedrich Saxe-Altenburg to Brien Horan, December 1973, quoted in Horan, 47.

8. Ernst Ludwig to Victoria, marchioness of Milford Haven, letter dated February 2, 1927, in Staatsarchiv Darmstadt.

9. Serge Botkin to Andrei Vladimirovich, letter of April 1927, quoted in Kurth, 164.

10. Andrei Vladimirovich to P. S. von Kugelgen, letter of July 8, 1928, quoted in Rathlef-Keilmann, 12.

11. Zahle to Serge Botkin, letter of February 5, 1927, quoted in Krug von Nidda, 204–205.

12. Andrei Vladimirovich to Serge Botkin, letter of November 30, 1926, in Hamburg, VIII, 1595–1597.

13. Gilliard and Savitch, 101.

14. Graf, 151.

15. Kurth, 127.

16. Andrei Vladimirovich to Tatiana Botkin, letter of September 2, 1927, quoted in Auclères, 175.

17. Gilliard and Savitch, 102, 195–196.

18. Andrei Vladimirovich to Serge Botkin, March 14, 1927, quoted in Horan, 94.

19. Information from Ian Lilburn to the authors.

20. Rathlef-Keilmann, 126.

21. Combined reports of letters from Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, dated June 9, 1926, and from Rathlef-Keilmann to Zahle, dated June 10, 1926, cited in Kurth, 132.

22. Botkin, Anastasia, 335, n. 8.

23. Baron von Osten-Sacken to Serge Botkin, letter of June 29, 1926, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

24. Dr. Serge Rudnev, report of March 1926, in Hamburg, XIV, 2485–2488.

25. Dr. Lothar Nobel, report of March 1926, in Hamburg, XIII, 4417–4426.

26. Ibid.

27. Dr. Karl Bonhoeffer, report of March 18, 1926, in Hamburg, XIV, 2389–2402.

28. Professor Saathof to Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, letter of December 7, 1927, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4508–4509.

29. Dr. Theodor Eitel, report of December 22, 1926, in Hamburg, VIII, 1394–1402.

30. Tatiana Botkin to Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, undated letter, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 142–143; Nancy Leeds Wynkoop to Brien Horan, quoted in Horan, 112.

31. Dr. Lothar Nobel, report of March 1926, in Hamburg, XIII, 4417–4426.

32. Dr. Karl Bonhoeffer, report of March 18, 1926, in Hamburg, XIV, 2389–2402.

33. Dr. Theodor Eitel, report of December 22, 1926, in Hamburg, VIII, 1394–1402.

34. Kurth, 153.

35. Rathlef-Keilmann to Tatiana Botkin, letter of March 10, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

36. Kurth, 159–160; Botkin, Anastasia, 155.

37. Tatiana Botkin to Kurth, quoted in Kurth, 159; Rathlef-Keilmann, 14.