Almost Anastasia The Life of Franziska Schanzkowsky eBook Vera Green, Victoria Hughes
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Almost Anastasia tells the story of Franziska Schanzkowsky, the former factory worker who convinced royals, courtiers, and forensic experts that she was actually the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Nicholas II and sole survivor of the 1918 massacre at Ekaterinburg. DNA analysis has established who she really was, but once that mystery was solved the real mystery began—how did she do it? Why did she do it? What would it be like to step into someone else's life and live it forever?
A work of narrative nonfiction drawn from original documents (some never before translated into English) and interviews with the people who knew her, Almost Anastasia follows Franziska from the streets of Berlin to the castles of deposed royalty, from Jazz Age New York to Nazi Germany and beyond. It is a tale of mystique, madness, and one woman’s determination to fool the world.
Almost Anastasia The Life of Franziska Schanzkowsky eBook Vera Green, Victoria Hughes
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Almost Anastasia The Life of Franziska Schanzkowsky eBook Vera Green, Victoria Hughes Reviews
Anna Anderson was Anastasia,how many people can be the same height,eye color, mole on cheeke,feet etc. the book was so against Anna Anderson. Even though she is dead people still have to fight the truth.
I read the book but did not like it. The author did not prove the case. I have never believed that Anna Manahan and Franziska were the same person.
The first part of the story was obviously fictional. No one would have known what the unknown woman would have thought about her alleged attempt to be Anastasia because she never mentioned that. In other words the book was not written with facts, but rather in a prejudicial fictionalized fashion. Only when talking about the DNA testing was the writing not slanted, but rather presented in a more straightforward manner. Because of the fictionalized two-thirds of the book, I found myself full of doubts about the whole premise. It would have been better to just present what happened as it happened instead of trying to prejudice the reader against her story from the beginning. A poorly written story I felt.
very pleased.....
I loved this very elegant and thoughtful little volume. It certainly brought the enigmatic figure of Franziska Schanzkowsky to life -- a very welcome thing to a public brought up on Ingrid Bergman's fragile, sympathetic and highly inaccurate Anastasia or the wildly silly Disney animated version. I came away feeling that I understood Schanzkowsky far better and why she might have tried to fashion a wistful dream into reality.
This extremely well written and well researched book will be of great interest to any reader fascinated with the Russian royal family or early 20th century history in general. Highly, highly recommended!
Am fascinated with Franziska's charade. This book is clearly researched and easy to read.
Birth-to-death life story of a woman still believed by some to be the "missing" Russian princess, Anastasia. Thoroughly sourced, in succinct and artful prose, it seems unlikely there will ever be a better book on the life of Franziska Schanzkowsky. Fans of Russian history will enjoy the evidence, and fans of compelling stories will enjoy the narrative, even if they lack an innate interest in the subject.
I found some of the authors' assumptions questionable, but their conclusions remained unassailable. Highly recommended!
I was very interested in this book, as I've read many accounts of "Anna Anderson." There were interesting aspects of the history that I'd either never read before or were expanded, so it was an interesting read. After DNA testing (both on Anna Anderson and the Imperial family remains, it is obvious that this poor woman was to masquerade for decades as a member of the Romanov family.
The book was interesting but the photographs, however, were poor quality and not clear.
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