Romanov impostors began to pop up all over the continent.They claimed to be survivors of the July 1918 firing squad and made excuses which included bullets bouncing off diamond buttons and jewellery.The rumours even sparked the 1997 animated film Anastasia, starring Meg Ryan and John Cusack — although the movie featured a far more romantic ending than what really happened to one young woman who claimed to be a survivor of the Romanov killings.Anderson, a Polish factory worker, convinced scores of the world's wealthiest and best-connected people she was the Tsar's escaped youngest daughter Anastasia.Anna's version of events was plausible partly because the early Soviet government in Russia refused to admit it was responsible for the deaths.
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