Анастасия или Анна? Величайшая загадка дома Романовых

1. Quoted in Horan, 51.

2. See diary of Faith Lavington, entry of February 7, 1928, in Hamburg, XXXIV/6402–6428.

3. Andrei Vladimirovich to Serge Botkin, letter of February 16, 1928, quoted in Auclères, 178.

4. Andrei Vladimirovich to Olga Alexandrovna, letter of February 4, 1928, in Hamburg, XVII, 3119.

5. Botkin, Anastasia, 82.

6. Andrei Vladimirovich to Paul von Kuegelgen, letter of August 1, 1928, quoted in Rathlef-Keilmann, 11–12.

7. Graf, 152.

8. Andrei Vladimirovich to Olga Alexandrovna, letter of February 10, 1955, in Hamburg, XIV, 2549. In 1974, on the death of his son Prince Vladimir Romanov, the dossier compiled by Andrei Vladimirovich on the claimant was taken by Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, only son of Andrei’s brother Kirill Vladimirovich. It remains the private property of Vladimir’s daughter Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and unavailable to historians. See Horan, 53.

9. Prince Vladimir Andreievich, in L’Aurore, Paris, February 23, 1960.

10. Horan, 52–53.

11. Princess Kira Kirillovna, testimony of September 20, 1965, in Hamburg, XXVI, 5003.

12. Ibid.

13. Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, affidavit of October 2, 1953, in Hamburg, XXIII, 4411–4412.

14. Princess Kira Kirillovna, testimony of September 20, 1965, in Hamburg, XXVI, 5003.

15. See Le Figaro, June 30, 1959, cited in Kurth, 59; Kurth, 257.

16. Ivan Arapov, affidavit of October 1, 1938, cited in Kurth, 275.

17. Paganuzzi, 16.

18. Private information to the authors.

19. Prince Sigismund of Prussia, affidavit of July 5, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 133; Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg, affidavit of August 1, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 132.

20. See Kurth, 272–273.

21. Prince Sigismund of Prussia, affidavit of July 5, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 133.

22. From the collection of Brien Horan. Horan, a lawyer and a historian of the Anderson case, explained to the present authors: «In 1974 my friend Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg allowed me to copy the list of Prince Sigismund’s questions. The last time I saw him, in summer 1984, a few months before his death, we discussed the questions again, because he and his sister, the widow of Prince Sigismund, had then come to stay with me in Paris. Although in 1984 he was still of the view that releasing the questions would be unhelpful to Anna Anderson’s case, the fact that he allowed me to have a copy of them ‘for history’ is, in my opinion, an implicit recognition that he envisaged the possibility that future circumstances might make their publication appropriate. I think the time now has certainly come to make them available ‘for history,’ and I have now decided to do so.» Brien Horan to the authors.

23. Anna Vyrubova’s memoirs were published as Glanz und Untergang der Romanows in Berlin in 1927 by Amalthea Verlag. See also the diary of Faith Lavington, entry of September 19, 1927, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428; Agnes Wasserschleben, affidavit of July 28, 1929, in Hamburg, VI, 1017–1024. In Vyrubova could also be found the answers to questions 1, 2, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, and 17, while Spiridovich also dealt with questions 1, 2, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. See Vyrubova, 90–95; Spiridovich, vol. 2, chap. 12, translation provided to the authors by Rob Moshein.

24. Prince Sigismund of Prussia, affidavit of July 5, 1938, Hamburg, Bln I, 133; see also Hamburg, Summary of Evidence in Frau Anna Anderson in Unterlengenhardt v. Barbara, Herzogin Christian Ludwig zu Mecklenburg, Ludwig, Prinz von Hesse und bei Rhein, May 18, 1967, 101–102.