1 00:00:22,925 --> 00:00:26,405 [Mr. Gilliard] At last the mystery was beginning to unravel. 2 00:00:26,525 --> 00:00:29,925 [footsteps] 3 00:00:30,045 --> 00:00:32,965 I've just got off the phone to the Von Kleist family, 4 00:00:33,045 --> 00:00:34,125 who looked after her. 5 00:00:34,205 --> 00:00:37,045 They have some new information. 6 00:00:39,005 --> 00:00:41,005 It should help us know once and for all, 7 00:00:42,245 --> 00:00:44,685 if she is who she says she is. 8 00:00:48,125 --> 00:00:49,005 Of course. 9 00:00:52,165 --> 00:00:55,125 [quiet footsteps] 10 00:00:56,125 --> 00:00:58,885 [Mr. Gilliard] Did Anastasia really escape 11 00:00:58,965 --> 00:01:01,565 one of the most tragic events of recent times? 12 00:01:03,325 --> 00:01:04,885 We were about to find out. 13 00:01:52,445 --> 00:01:54,725 In May 1918... 14 00:01:56,245 --> 00:01:58,685 a year after the revolution... 15 00:02:02,045 --> 00:02:07,365 the Bolsheviks sent Anastasia, Alexei, Tatiana and Olga 16 00:02:08,605 --> 00:02:11,645 to join the rest of the family in Ekaterinburg. 17 00:02:12,445 --> 00:02:15,405 The city was a communist stronghold in the Urals, 18 00:02:15,805 --> 00:02:18,085 surrounded by vast forests. 19 00:02:18,725 --> 00:02:23,525 The kind of place political prisoners could easily disappear. 20 00:02:23,605 --> 00:02:26,045 [roar of truck engine] 21 00:02:33,565 --> 00:02:35,765 [rattle of doors] 22 00:02:36,645 --> 00:02:38,885 [bump] Come on. Down. 23 00:02:45,525 --> 00:02:48,765 [Montefiore] In Ekaterinburg, they're put in the Ipatiev mansion. 24 00:02:51,685 --> 00:02:52,525 Move it! 25 00:02:53,445 --> 00:02:57,365 And it's chosen because it's separate, it's guardable, it's fortifiable. 26 00:02:58,765 --> 00:03:00,085 Come on, faster! 27 00:03:00,205 --> 00:03:04,045 And It's given the name "The House of Special Purpose." 28 00:03:06,005 --> 00:03:09,565 Can you imagine a more sinister name for a house 29 00:03:09,645 --> 00:03:11,445 than "The House of Special Purpose?" 30 00:03:15,885 --> 00:03:17,325 They should be here by now. 31 00:03:17,805 --> 00:03:20,965 [truck engine in the distance] 32 00:03:22,125 --> 00:03:22,965 [door rattles] 33 00:03:25,365 --> 00:03:26,725 [girl's voice] Where are they? 34 00:03:26,885 --> 00:03:28,365 They must be through here. 35 00:03:28,445 --> 00:03:30,125 They're here, they're here. 36 00:03:30,965 --> 00:03:32,605 -[door rattles] -[girl cries out] 37 00:03:32,685 --> 00:03:35,285 -[bumping] -[laughing] Come here. 38 00:03:35,525 --> 00:03:39,405 [happy squeals] 39 00:03:40,005 --> 00:03:41,125 Alexei! 40 00:03:41,965 --> 00:03:43,125 [happy murmuring] 41 00:03:44,365 --> 00:03:46,365 -[Nicky chuckles] -[girls laugh] 42 00:03:47,245 --> 00:03:48,685 [Alexei] Where is Mother? 43 00:03:49,245 --> 00:03:52,005 She's not well, but she is desperate to see you. 44 00:03:52,085 --> 00:03:53,125 [girls giggle] 45 00:03:53,285 --> 00:03:56,925 -Now you must be tired after the journey. -Why are the windows like that? 46 00:03:57,405 --> 00:03:58,685 [guard] This is a prison. 47 00:04:00,005 --> 00:04:00,925 Not a hotel. 48 00:04:01,925 --> 00:04:02,845 What does he mean? 49 00:04:07,845 --> 00:04:09,325 Let's go and see your mother. 50 00:04:10,005 --> 00:04:11,805 Mm? Okay. 51 00:04:12,685 --> 00:04:13,805 [door rattles] 52 00:04:17,485 --> 00:04:18,845 Come on, come on. 53 00:04:20,325 --> 00:04:22,205 Come here and give me a proper hug. 54 00:04:22,285 --> 00:04:24,285 Ah! [kisses] 55 00:04:24,725 --> 00:04:25,565 [sighs] 56 00:04:26,045 --> 00:04:27,125 [Alix] Look at you. 57 00:04:28,045 --> 00:04:29,165 [Alix sighs] 58 00:04:29,605 --> 00:04:31,965 [Nicky] Maria, could you close the door, please? 59 00:04:33,605 --> 00:04:35,405 [murmuring] 60 00:04:35,485 --> 00:04:36,925 [Alix] You must be so tired. 61 00:04:37,645 --> 00:04:39,125 [girl] Mm no, not at all. 62 00:04:39,325 --> 00:04:40,165 Now. 63 00:04:41,325 --> 00:04:43,365 Remember, we are being watched all the time, 64 00:04:43,445 --> 00:04:45,085 so be very careful what you say. 65 00:04:46,645 --> 00:04:47,885 Don't provoke them, 66 00:04:48,285 --> 00:04:51,765 and they'll leave you alone if you stick to the rules. 67 00:04:52,165 --> 00:04:53,325 What rules? 68 00:04:54,965 --> 00:04:58,085 Roll call every morning. One hour's exercise in the yard a day. 69 00:04:58,525 --> 00:04:59,365 What? 70 00:04:59,845 --> 00:05:01,965 [Nicky] No matter how hard things get, 71 00:05:02,845 --> 00:05:04,405 we must keep our dignity. 72 00:05:05,365 --> 00:05:07,285 Don't forget you're Grand Duchesses. 73 00:05:08,485 --> 00:05:10,005 [Nicky] And this is temporary. 74 00:05:11,565 --> 00:05:12,845 We won't be here long. 75 00:05:15,485 --> 00:05:17,965 Maria, why don't you show your sisters their room? 76 00:05:18,245 --> 00:05:19,085 Yes. 77 00:05:27,245 --> 00:05:30,365 Up to this moment, they had kept their spirits relatively high, 78 00:05:30,485 --> 00:05:34,125 that they were either going to be secretly sent abroad, 79 00:05:35,045 --> 00:05:36,605 or rescued, essentially. 80 00:05:36,885 --> 00:05:38,165 The room is along here. 81 00:05:45,845 --> 00:05:49,125 Forget what Papa said. The guards aren't that bad. 82 00:05:50,045 --> 00:05:52,645 Actually, some are quite nice. 83 00:05:55,645 --> 00:05:56,805 This is where we sleep. 84 00:06:07,005 --> 00:06:09,885 Comrade Goloshchyokin, we can't keep them here any longer. 85 00:06:09,965 --> 00:06:12,445 The whole town seems to know who we have got locked up. 86 00:06:13,325 --> 00:06:16,725 I can't do anything without the go-ahead from Moscow. 87 00:06:16,805 --> 00:06:19,605 There are rumors they have allies planning to free them. 88 00:06:20,285 --> 00:06:22,365 I'll make it very clear to Comrade Lenin. 89 00:06:23,325 --> 00:06:27,245 The imperial family is in the power of the Ural Soviet Bolsheviks. 90 00:06:27,325 --> 00:06:30,045 They're quite radical, even by Leninist standards 91 00:06:30,125 --> 00:06:32,085 and they want to execute the royal family. 92 00:06:33,445 --> 00:06:34,845 Keep a close eye on them. 93 00:06:35,685 --> 00:06:37,205 Check up all security. 94 00:06:37,685 --> 00:06:39,365 We cannot afford any fuck-up. 95 00:06:39,485 --> 00:06:41,045 [typewriter clicks] 96 00:06:41,125 --> 00:06:43,085 [Montefiore] But there are different views 97 00:06:43,165 --> 00:06:45,125 about what to do with the Romanovs. 98 00:06:48,645 --> 00:06:51,365 [Dr. de Orellana] Lenin is concerned that executing the imperial family 99 00:06:51,445 --> 00:06:54,485 would make him look bad, that it would be a very unpopular move.  100 00:06:54,565 --> 00:06:59,085 It is not that easy to overcome imperial tradition overnight 101 00:06:59,165 --> 00:07:00,525 and just kill the Czar. 102 00:07:05,445 --> 00:07:06,805 By the spring of 1918, 103 00:07:06,885 --> 00:07:10,325 the Bolshevik hold on power in Russia is becoming very shaky. 104 00:07:11,125 --> 00:07:14,525 There is a major famine, and the Bolshevik solution 105 00:07:14,605 --> 00:07:18,565 is to requisition food from farmers, which becomes very unpopular. 106 00:07:19,925 --> 00:07:23,685 The Bolsheviks have signed the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany. 107 00:07:24,085 --> 00:07:26,405 A lot of European Russia is lost 108 00:07:26,485 --> 00:07:29,325 and Lenin starts losing support for his betrayal of Russia. 109 00:07:29,445 --> 00:07:31,245 [sound of boots marching] 110 00:07:31,325 --> 00:07:34,085 [Montefiore] Revolution changes into civil war. 111 00:07:34,565 --> 00:07:38,445 White armies are formed by former Czarist officers and generals, 112 00:07:38,845 --> 00:07:41,805 and challenge the Bolshevik hold on power. 113 00:07:42,045 --> 00:07:45,725 And furthermore, foreign interventions start. 114 00:07:47,045 --> 00:07:49,725 [Dr. de Orellana] Britain and France send substantial armies 115 00:07:49,805 --> 00:07:52,965 to fight against the Bolsheviks, to try to restore 116 00:07:53,445 --> 00:07:57,645 the republican and/or Imperial regime, and bring Russia back into World War One. 117 00:07:58,845 --> 00:08:01,605 [Montefiore] It looks quite possible that the whole Bolshevik regime 118 00:08:01,685 --> 00:08:02,645 won't even survive. 119 00:08:03,045 --> 00:08:05,165 And the one thing they don't want to happen 120 00:08:05,325 --> 00:08:09,645 is for the Romanovs to become a banner of their enemies. 121 00:08:11,245 --> 00:08:12,405 [Nicky] Oh Christ, God, 122 00:08:12,805 --> 00:08:14,885 bless the food and drink of thy servants. 123 00:08:15,885 --> 00:08:19,045 For holy art thou, always, now and ever, 124 00:08:19,725 --> 00:08:21,365 and unto the ages of ages. 125 00:08:22,165 --> 00:08:23,005 Amen. 126 00:08:23,525 --> 00:08:24,565 [all] Amen. 127 00:08:27,645 --> 00:08:28,805 [Alexei] Cutlets again? 128 00:08:28,885 --> 00:08:32,805 It's cutlets every night. Can't we have something else? 129 00:08:33,445 --> 00:08:34,765 Elbows down. 130 00:08:36,165 --> 00:08:38,525 Just be grateful for what we have-- [door bangs] 131 00:08:42,805 --> 00:08:43,845 Girls. 132 00:09:01,965 --> 00:09:03,765 -[Alexei] Is he drunk? -[Nicky] Sh. 133 00:09:05,605 --> 00:09:06,525 [Nicky] There you are. 134 00:09:11,645 --> 00:09:14,205 [sound of cutlery] 135 00:09:15,005 --> 00:09:16,445 Mother, I don't have a fork. 136 00:09:17,325 --> 00:09:18,205 Use your fingers. 137 00:09:18,605 --> 00:09:20,405 -How dare you talk to us like that? -Lexi! 138 00:09:20,485 --> 00:09:22,445 [Nicky] Look, please, there's no need-- 139 00:09:22,845 --> 00:09:24,845 Come on. Let's go. 140 00:09:24,965 --> 00:09:25,925 Let's go. 141 00:09:26,085 --> 00:09:28,085 [feet thump on floor] 142 00:09:30,645 --> 00:09:31,925 [Nicky] It's alright... 143 00:09:33,125 --> 00:09:35,285 -it's alright. -Don't look at him like that. 144 00:09:37,405 --> 00:09:39,725 Let's just get back to dinner. 145 00:09:46,285 --> 00:09:47,485 [Alix] Here, take mine. 146 00:09:53,285 --> 00:09:55,285 [Alix] Who'd like a game of Bezique tonight? 147 00:09:55,365 --> 00:09:57,365 -[Alexei] I'll play. -[girl] Me too. 148 00:09:58,365 --> 00:10:00,885 -[Alix] Whose turn is it to win? -[girl] Not yours! 149 00:10:00,965 --> 00:10:01,845 [Alix laughs] 150 00:10:13,485 --> 00:10:17,005 [Nicky] "The friends of the Romanovs are no longer sleeping. 151 00:10:17,485 --> 00:10:19,845 The hour so long awaited has come. 152 00:10:21,445 --> 00:10:25,805 The Czechs are approaching Ekaterinburg and will force the Red Army to capitulate. 153 00:10:27,565 --> 00:10:30,605 Be ready at all times for liberation." 154 00:10:33,285 --> 00:10:35,485 Signed, "Someone who's ready to die for you. 155 00:10:36,165 --> 00:10:37,725 Officer of the Russian army." 156 00:10:41,365 --> 00:10:42,205 [kiss] 157 00:10:48,525 --> 00:10:52,645 [Prof. Fedyashin] In the summer of 1918, the family begins to receive 158 00:10:52,725 --> 00:10:54,965 mysterious communications. 159 00:10:55,525 --> 00:10:57,445 These are letters that assure them 160 00:10:57,525 --> 00:11:00,885 that they still have friends on the outside, so to speak, 161 00:11:00,965 --> 00:11:03,325 and that they need to wait for a signal 162 00:11:04,165 --> 00:11:05,565 and then attempt an escape. 163 00:11:16,725 --> 00:11:21,365 They do not suspect that these letters are actually written 164 00:11:21,445 --> 00:11:23,165 by the Urals Bolsheviks 165 00:11:23,525 --> 00:11:26,685 in an attempt to lure the family out of the house. 166 00:11:29,245 --> 00:11:31,405 -[tinkle of silverware] -[paper rustles] 167 00:11:35,445 --> 00:11:37,565 [Montefiore] They are trying to trick them 168 00:11:37,645 --> 00:11:39,845 into an escape in which they could be killed. 169 00:12:00,245 --> 00:12:02,365 When the Romanovs left the Alexander Palace 170 00:12:02,445 --> 00:12:06,045 they managed to take their hidden cache of jewelry with them, 171 00:12:06,245 --> 00:12:10,245 as an insurance policy to live off if they went into exile 172 00:12:11,045 --> 00:12:14,565 and to pay for any escape that needed paying for. 173 00:12:15,485 --> 00:12:17,485 So they need to hide the jewels. 174 00:12:18,765 --> 00:12:21,285 From now on, you'll wear these under your clothes at all times. 175 00:12:21,925 --> 00:12:22,765 Why? 176 00:12:25,165 --> 00:12:27,285 We need to be ready to leave at any moment. 177 00:12:27,645 --> 00:12:29,285 -[girl] To go where? -[Alexei] Quick! 178 00:12:29,565 --> 00:12:34,125 -[footsteps] -[tinkle of jewels] 179 00:12:34,605 --> 00:12:36,685 [knocking] 180 00:12:38,685 --> 00:12:39,525 [door squeaks] 181 00:12:40,205 --> 00:12:41,925 [footsteps] 182 00:12:48,645 --> 00:12:49,485 [door bangs] 183 00:12:51,845 --> 00:12:56,605 [birdsong] 184 00:13:06,205 --> 00:13:07,765 [knocking] 185 00:13:22,805 --> 00:13:23,765 [door clicks] 186 00:13:25,845 --> 00:13:27,605 [All shout] Happy birthday! 187 00:13:27,685 --> 00:13:30,805 [laughter] [clapping] 188 00:13:31,285 --> 00:13:32,645 Thank you. [laughs] 189 00:13:33,245 --> 00:13:36,285 [Montefiore] Within the house, things are getting lax. 190 00:13:36,565 --> 00:13:39,365 Imagine, you've got these very pretty teenage girls 191 00:13:39,765 --> 00:13:43,005 and they've never really had contact with young men before. 192 00:13:43,085 --> 00:13:45,085 [cheering] [clapping] 193 00:13:45,245 --> 00:13:46,525 [girl] What did you wish for? 194 00:13:46,885 --> 00:13:49,485 I'm not telling, or it might not come true. 195 00:13:49,685 --> 00:13:50,765 [giggling] 196 00:13:50,845 --> 00:13:53,845 [Montefiore] Suddenly there are all these young Bolshevik guards 197 00:13:54,045 --> 00:13:55,205 flirting with them. 198 00:13:56,525 --> 00:13:57,365 Maria. 199 00:13:58,605 --> 00:13:59,445 Yes. 200 00:13:59,525 --> 00:14:01,125 [Montefiore] Particularly Maria. 201 00:14:01,205 --> 00:14:03,845 Her eyes always known as "Maria's saucers". 202 00:14:04,325 --> 00:14:06,005 [subdued giggling] 203 00:14:08,165 --> 00:14:10,165 [rustle of paper] 204 00:14:10,245 --> 00:14:12,445 [rattling] 205 00:14:16,365 --> 00:14:17,485 Comrade Goloshchyokin. 206 00:14:19,285 --> 00:14:20,125 Speaking. 207 00:14:20,485 --> 00:14:22,445 Security at the house is compromised. 208 00:14:23,165 --> 00:14:25,445 Some of the guards are getting too close to the girls. 209 00:14:26,005 --> 00:14:27,045 How bad is it? 210 00:14:27,645 --> 00:14:29,165 If we don't do something soon, 211 00:14:29,245 --> 00:14:30,965 they will be the ones helping them escape. 212 00:14:31,045 --> 00:14:32,085 Really? 213 00:14:32,165 --> 00:14:33,845 You need to come and see for yourself. 214 00:14:34,765 --> 00:14:39,885 [hurried footfall] 215 00:14:40,005 --> 00:14:46,645 [boots thud on floor] 216 00:14:50,485 --> 00:14:51,605 Stay where you are. 217 00:14:53,605 --> 00:14:55,605 Turn everything upside down! 218 00:14:56,965 --> 00:14:59,405 -[Nicky] You can't do-- -[soldier] You stay here! 219 00:14:59,925 --> 00:15:02,045 [struggling] 220 00:15:02,205 --> 00:15:03,165 [Alix] Nicky! 221 00:15:03,245 --> 00:15:05,805 [Montefiore] When the Bolshevik leaders arrive to inspect, 222 00:15:06,405 --> 00:15:08,445 they are absolutely ruthless. 223 00:15:08,565 --> 00:15:11,125 When I say everywhere, I mean everywhere! 224 00:15:11,205 --> 00:15:12,445 [soldier claps hands] 225 00:15:12,525 --> 00:15:14,645 [Montefiore] They are fanatical Marxists. 226 00:15:16,165 --> 00:15:19,005 They hate Nicholas, they hate the Romanov family. 227 00:15:20,165 --> 00:15:22,525 They regard them as criminals, bloodsuckers. 228 00:15:23,005 --> 00:15:23,845 Give it back! 229 00:15:24,005 --> 00:15:24,845 Sh, don't. 230 00:15:25,045 --> 00:15:25,885 Or what? 231 00:15:26,645 --> 00:15:28,085 [door rattles] 232 00:15:30,125 --> 00:15:30,965 What is this? 233 00:15:31,285 --> 00:15:32,285 An inspection. 234 00:15:32,805 --> 00:15:34,565 Cooperate, and no one gets hurt. 235 00:15:34,765 --> 00:15:37,685 [sound of things being searched] 236 00:15:38,125 --> 00:15:39,245 Where is the fourth girl? 237 00:15:43,645 --> 00:15:45,085 Right, search the rooms! 238 00:15:48,245 --> 00:15:50,325 [Montefiore] They believe in terror... 239 00:15:52,325 --> 00:15:53,725 as a revolutionary weapon. 240 00:15:55,965 --> 00:15:58,525 Check that room, down there. 241 00:15:59,685 --> 00:16:01,685 [hurried footsteps] 242 00:16:03,205 --> 00:16:04,325 [door bangs] 243 00:16:08,005 --> 00:16:10,205 [Alix whispers] Lord have mercy on our souls. 244 00:16:10,285 --> 00:16:12,925 Lord have mercy on our souls. Protect and guard us. 245 00:16:13,005 --> 00:16:14,325 Protect and guard us. 246 00:16:16,685 --> 00:16:18,485 Left, check all the rooms. 247 00:16:20,765 --> 00:16:21,605 [door bangs] 248 00:16:22,045 --> 00:16:24,925 Protect and guard our souls from the hands of evil, oh Lord. 249 00:16:27,925 --> 00:16:29,645 [door handle rattles] 250 00:16:29,725 --> 00:16:31,645 Lord have mercy on our souls. 251 00:16:32,005 --> 00:16:32,965 [crash] 252 00:16:33,325 --> 00:16:34,165 [Maria gasps] 253 00:16:35,765 --> 00:16:36,685 Get out! 254 00:16:39,845 --> 00:16:40,805 [muttering] 255 00:16:43,845 --> 00:16:45,645 I said get out! 256 00:16:47,845 --> 00:16:49,845 [Maria] No. Please, please, no, stop! 257 00:16:49,925 --> 00:16:50,845 Stop! 258 00:17:02,165 --> 00:17:03,005 [gunshot] 259 00:17:03,085 --> 00:17:04,085 No! 260 00:17:04,165 --> 00:17:05,325 No, no! 261 00:17:20,965 --> 00:17:22,685 [Dr. Hetherington] By July 1918, 262 00:17:22,765 --> 00:17:25,285 the Ural Bolsheviks are getting more and more concerned 263 00:17:25,365 --> 00:17:28,405 about the imperial family, and how secure they are. 264 00:17:29,045 --> 00:17:31,925 On the one hand, there's been a kind of breakdown of order 265 00:17:32,005 --> 00:17:33,445 within the house itself. 266 00:17:34,445 --> 00:17:37,005 On the other hand, the war isn't going that well for the Reds. 267 00:17:37,405 --> 00:17:40,925 In fact, the White Army is getting closer and closer to Ekaterinburg. 268 00:17:41,005 --> 00:17:42,725 And so the very real threat 269 00:17:42,805 --> 00:17:46,445 that the imperial family might be rescued is ever more apparent. 270 00:17:47,925 --> 00:17:51,205 [Montefiore] Lenin agrees that if the Whites get close 271 00:17:51,565 --> 00:17:57,205 then he gives the permission for the Ural Bolsheviks to kill them all. 272 00:17:58,365 --> 00:17:59,485 [typewriter clicks] 273 00:17:59,565 --> 00:18:04,245 [Goloshchyokin] The action agreed upon cannot be put off. 274 00:18:05,365 --> 00:18:06,245 Stop. 275 00:18:06,405 --> 00:18:08,165 [typewriter clicks] 276 00:18:11,005 --> 00:18:12,805 We cannot wait. 277 00:18:13,805 --> 00:18:17,005 -[typewriter clicks] -Stop. 278 00:18:18,045 --> 00:18:20,925 If your opinion differs... 279 00:18:21,285 --> 00:18:22,725 [typewriter clicks] 280 00:18:22,845 --> 00:18:25,605 then immediately notify. 281 00:18:26,925 --> 00:18:27,765 Stop. 282 00:18:28,645 --> 00:18:30,325 [typewriter clicks] 283 00:18:31,045 --> 00:18:31,885 [door clicks] 284 00:18:36,165 --> 00:18:38,445 [Montefiore] Yurovsky takes personal control. 285 00:18:42,205 --> 00:18:46,045 He sacks all the lax guards, he tightens the schedule, 286 00:18:48,405 --> 00:18:52,005 and he brings in new, tougher, more hostile guards. 287 00:19:01,405 --> 00:19:03,765 This does not bode well for the family. 288 00:19:06,045 --> 00:19:11,325 [slow footsteps] 289 00:19:16,045 --> 00:19:18,845 Your new commander, Yakov Yurovsky. 290 00:19:24,645 --> 00:19:27,605 From now on the rules will be strictly enforced. 291 00:19:34,245 --> 00:19:36,165 No fraternizing with guards. 292 00:19:38,765 --> 00:19:40,325 Comply and you will be safe. 293 00:19:42,245 --> 00:19:45,525 [slow footsteps] 294 00:19:46,885 --> 00:19:49,245 Any attempt at escape 295 00:19:51,045 --> 00:19:52,445 will be severely punished. 296 00:19:59,165 --> 00:20:00,005 [sniffs] 297 00:20:16,805 --> 00:20:18,445 What's going to happen to us? 298 00:20:23,565 --> 00:20:24,685 We'll get out of here. 299 00:20:27,005 --> 00:20:27,845 And go where? 300 00:20:30,005 --> 00:20:30,845 I don't know. 301 00:20:35,125 --> 00:20:37,005 We might have to leave Russia. 302 00:20:37,965 --> 00:20:40,485 You told me, God chose me to be Czar. 303 00:20:40,885 --> 00:20:41,725 He did. 304 00:20:42,245 --> 00:20:43,805 So why has he let this happen? 305 00:20:52,045 --> 00:20:55,285 Maybe... he's testing us. 306 00:20:56,765 --> 00:20:58,445 Maybe it's all part of his plan. 307 00:21:08,565 --> 00:21:09,405 [kiss] 308 00:21:18,565 --> 00:21:20,325 [Prof. Fedyashin] One has to try to imagine 309 00:21:20,405 --> 00:21:23,325 the psychological pressure on a man 310 00:21:23,645 --> 00:21:27,845 who was convinced that he was anointed by God. 311 00:21:30,565 --> 00:21:32,645 [Dr. Hetherington] He knows he's failed in his role 312 00:21:32,725 --> 00:21:34,165 as God's representative on Earth, 313 00:21:34,245 --> 00:21:36,325 that he has brought about this crisis. 314 00:21:38,125 --> 00:21:42,805 [Montefiore] And now he has to worry about Alexei, his handicapped son, 315 00:21:42,885 --> 00:21:44,405 what will become of him. 316 00:21:44,685 --> 00:21:46,685 This is the ultimate nightmare. 317 00:21:48,245 --> 00:21:51,085 How does he protect him from the Bolsheviks? 318 00:21:51,885 --> 00:21:56,245 [whimpers] 319 00:21:56,845 --> 00:21:59,765 [firm footsteps] 320 00:22:06,005 --> 00:22:07,085 You wanted to see me. 321 00:22:07,165 --> 00:22:09,605 Yes, I need to know what you're planning to do with us. 322 00:22:09,965 --> 00:22:12,725 I'm waiting for instructions from the general committee. 323 00:22:13,925 --> 00:22:14,765 I see. 324 00:22:15,565 --> 00:22:17,125 How long is that going to take? 325 00:22:18,845 --> 00:22:20,005 My son is unwell. 326 00:22:20,565 --> 00:22:22,725 We need to get him proper medical attention. 327 00:22:23,045 --> 00:22:24,965 And my wife has asked to see a priest. 328 00:22:25,165 --> 00:22:26,645 That is not up to me. 329 00:22:30,325 --> 00:22:31,805 But you could report to the-- 330 00:22:31,885 --> 00:22:34,245 They are fully aware of the situation. 331 00:22:40,245 --> 00:22:41,925 I have never met people like you. 332 00:22:44,685 --> 00:22:46,125 I hope I never will again. 333 00:22:47,685 --> 00:22:48,885 But, you and I have met. 334 00:22:50,205 --> 00:22:51,525 In a manner of speaking. 335 00:22:55,245 --> 00:22:56,125 [sighs] 336 00:23:03,365 --> 00:23:04,205 [match strikes] 337 00:23:13,645 --> 00:23:14,685 1891... 338 00:23:17,485 --> 00:23:18,365 I was ten. 339 00:23:19,245 --> 00:23:21,365 You were completing your Far East tour. 340 00:23:22,045 --> 00:23:23,405 You stopped in Tomsk. 341 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:28,605 Beautiful day, perfect weather. 342 00:23:32,165 --> 00:23:33,125 I was happy. 343 00:23:34,925 --> 00:23:36,685 We all got the day off from school. 344 00:23:39,325 --> 00:23:40,165 Please. 345 00:23:46,845 --> 00:23:47,765 [Nicky] Thank you. 346 00:23:52,925 --> 00:23:56,725 I remember I was with all my friends. 347 00:23:57,645 --> 00:23:58,605 My family. 348 00:23:59,485 --> 00:24:00,805 I had a little flag. 349 00:24:01,845 --> 00:24:02,685 I was waving it. 350 00:24:04,365 --> 00:24:06,125 Just one of the little ants 351 00:24:06,725 --> 00:24:08,645 you were nodding and waving at. 352 00:24:11,925 --> 00:24:12,805 Of course. 353 00:24:14,725 --> 00:24:15,765 You don't remember. 354 00:24:18,285 --> 00:24:19,605 There were millions of us. 355 00:24:20,445 --> 00:24:22,085 And one of you. 356 00:24:37,525 --> 00:24:39,005 I know what you think of me. 357 00:24:45,765 --> 00:24:47,965 I tried to be a good Czar. 358 00:24:50,925 --> 00:24:53,045 Everything I did, I did for my country. 359 00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:54,165 [bang] 360 00:24:56,565 --> 00:24:58,445 What did you do for the people? 361 00:24:59,685 --> 00:25:01,005 Russia is the people. 362 00:25:02,405 --> 00:25:03,725 Did you ever realize that? 363 00:25:08,045 --> 00:25:09,405 Was there anything else? 364 00:25:17,085 --> 00:25:18,045 [chair scrapes] 365 00:25:18,405 --> 00:25:20,605 [footsteps] 366 00:25:30,045 --> 00:25:32,285 [Dr. de Orellana] By this point,  the Bolshevik government 367 00:25:32,365 --> 00:25:33,445 is in serious danger. 368 00:25:34,485 --> 00:25:36,325 It has lost a great deal of Russia 369 00:25:36,405 --> 00:25:38,965 and an uprising has just occurred in Moscow. 370 00:25:41,005 --> 00:25:43,965 [Montefiore] Different armies are converging from every side 371 00:25:44,245 --> 00:25:46,965 on a shrinking Bolshevik heartland. 372 00:25:47,285 --> 00:25:49,645 [sound of truck engine] 373 00:25:49,725 --> 00:25:53,685 [Prof. Fedyashin] The White Forces are just 20 miles from Ekaterinburg. 374 00:25:53,805 --> 00:25:55,845 It is a very serious possibility 375 00:25:55,925 --> 00:25:58,485 that they will take the city and liberate the Romanovs. 376 00:25:59,845 --> 00:26:02,285 [Montefiore] The Romanovs can actually hear guns 377 00:26:02,405 --> 00:26:03,965 at the front, booming away. 378 00:26:04,405 --> 00:26:06,285 That's how close the war is getting. 379 00:26:06,365 --> 00:26:07,485 [gunfire] 380 00:26:07,565 --> 00:26:10,845 And, of course, they don't realize that the closer the war gets, 381 00:26:11,045 --> 00:26:12,605 the more danger they're in. 382 00:26:14,045 --> 00:26:21,005 [speaking in Russian] 383 00:26:21,725 --> 00:26:25,085 [speaking in Russian] 384 00:26:32,085 --> 00:26:38,925 [speaking in Russian] 385 00:26:39,005 --> 00:26:42,685 [speaking in Russian] 386 00:26:49,005 --> 00:26:52,965 [speaking in Russian] 387 00:26:55,885 --> 00:26:59,925 [speaking in Russian] 388 00:27:03,805 --> 00:27:08,165 [speaking in Russian] 389 00:27:10,925 --> 00:27:14,005 [speaking in Russian] 390 00:27:14,085 --> 00:27:15,325 Thank you. 391 00:27:16,845 --> 00:27:18,525 This is a great comfort to us. 392 00:27:20,165 --> 00:27:21,005 Of course. 393 00:27:23,245 --> 00:27:27,285 [priest continues reciting] 394 00:27:29,805 --> 00:27:31,525 I spoke to Comrade Lenin. 395 00:27:36,125 --> 00:27:38,845 We have the go-ahead for our operations. 396 00:27:41,125 --> 00:27:41,965 Good. 397 00:27:42,685 --> 00:27:46,685 [priest continues reciting] 398 00:28:08,245 --> 00:28:13,725 [leaves rustle underfoot] 399 00:28:14,525 --> 00:28:15,605 Here is good. 400 00:28:16,365 --> 00:28:17,925 The trucks will come to the house. 401 00:28:18,005 --> 00:28:20,485 Be ready to leave, 01:30 hours. 402 00:28:23,285 --> 00:28:27,205 [leaves rustle underfoot] 403 00:28:27,805 --> 00:28:32,165 [gunfire] 404 00:28:32,445 --> 00:28:37,725 [distant gunfire] 405 00:28:41,165 --> 00:28:42,405 It's getting nearer. 406 00:28:43,205 --> 00:28:48,245 [distant gunfire] 407 00:28:54,885 --> 00:28:56,725 What's going to happen to us, Nicky? 408 00:29:02,925 --> 00:29:04,885 Do you remember Livadia in the spring? 409 00:29:05,725 --> 00:29:06,805 [laughs] 410 00:29:08,765 --> 00:29:10,085 And the cherry blossom? 411 00:29:15,245 --> 00:29:16,965 I'm going to take you back there. 412 00:29:19,165 --> 00:29:20,565 When this madness is over. 413 00:29:24,325 --> 00:29:25,325 Just you and I. 414 00:29:31,085 --> 00:29:32,125 I would love that. 415 00:29:41,445 --> 00:29:42,325 [kiss] 416 00:29:47,765 --> 00:29:48,605 I love you. 417 00:29:51,965 --> 00:29:52,885 I love you too. 418 00:30:07,685 --> 00:30:12,285 [distant gunfire] 419 00:30:15,805 --> 00:30:20,205 [gunfire] 420 00:30:20,925 --> 00:30:24,165 [distant gunfire] 421 00:30:29,565 --> 00:30:36,245 [sound of engine approaching] 422 00:30:37,525 --> 00:30:40,965 [vehicle door opening and shutting] 423 00:30:44,205 --> 00:30:46,205 [muffled footsteps] 424 00:30:48,965 --> 00:30:53,245 [echoing footsteps approaching] 425 00:30:56,525 --> 00:30:57,405 [door rattles] 426 00:30:58,885 --> 00:31:05,365 [muffled footsteps] 427 00:31:08,405 --> 00:31:09,325 [knocking] 428 00:31:13,885 --> 00:31:15,045 [knocking] 429 00:31:15,765 --> 00:31:18,085 -[Alexei] What's happening? -It's alright. 430 00:31:23,005 --> 00:31:25,005 [loud knocking] 431 00:31:27,205 --> 00:31:28,445 [door clicks] 432 00:31:30,125 --> 00:31:31,725 There's a fight for the city. 433 00:31:32,445 --> 00:31:34,485 We need to move you all, for your own safety. 434 00:31:35,325 --> 00:31:36,485 Let the children know. 435 00:31:36,565 --> 00:31:38,725 We need them dressed and ready as soon as possible. 436 00:31:40,365 --> 00:31:42,205 [footsteps] 437 00:31:52,525 --> 00:31:54,645 [Montefiore] On the night that they're woken up, 438 00:31:54,725 --> 00:31:59,485 the first thing they do is to pull on their diamond-encrusted underwear. 439 00:32:02,045 --> 00:32:02,885 [door clicks] 440 00:32:04,365 --> 00:32:05,205 Quickly, girls. 441 00:32:08,845 --> 00:32:10,405 Where are they taking us? 442 00:32:11,725 --> 00:32:12,565 Crimea? 443 00:32:13,245 --> 00:32:14,085 Who knows? 444 00:32:14,605 --> 00:32:16,965 The important thing is, we're finally moving on. 445 00:32:22,125 --> 00:32:23,005 Hurry, girls. 446 00:32:25,725 --> 00:32:28,885 [Montefiore] The fact that they're wearing their bejeweled vests 447 00:32:28,965 --> 00:32:32,445 shows that for the children at least, they had a great hope 448 00:32:32,525 --> 00:32:35,925 that somehow they would survive this.  449 00:32:36,005 --> 00:32:38,645 It was unthinkable that anything would happen to the children. 450 00:32:40,605 --> 00:32:41,485 Ready? 451 00:32:48,645 --> 00:32:49,485 Okay, please. 452 00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:52,205 My men will take these. 453 00:32:55,525 --> 00:32:56,365 Okay. 454 00:32:56,445 --> 00:32:57,525 Okay, let's go. 455 00:33:07,445 --> 00:33:10,765 Do everything they tell you to. We don't want to be split up again. 456 00:33:11,405 --> 00:33:13,765 [footsteps] 457 00:33:48,805 --> 00:33:51,765 -I thought we were heading-- -Wait here until your transport is ready. 458 00:34:03,205 --> 00:34:05,125 -[door creaks] -[light switch clicks] 459 00:34:12,245 --> 00:34:14,085 [Montefiore] They're brought into the cellar. 460 00:34:15,125 --> 00:34:17,445 They're confused. It's the middle of the night. 461 00:34:17,965 --> 00:34:20,245 Could I have some chairs for my son and wife, please? 462 00:34:20,485 --> 00:34:21,325 Of course. 463 00:34:24,885 --> 00:34:29,365 [footsteps] 464 00:34:50,205 --> 00:34:52,205 -[thud] -You have been drinking. 465 00:34:52,325 --> 00:34:55,445 [guard breaths heavily] 466 00:34:55,565 --> 00:34:56,525 Start the lorries. 467 00:35:03,445 --> 00:35:04,285 [door clicks] 468 00:35:10,765 --> 00:35:11,885 [chairs bump on floor] 469 00:35:30,245 --> 00:35:32,245 [engine starts in the distance] 470 00:35:33,725 --> 00:35:34,805 That's our transport. 471 00:36:06,365 --> 00:36:13,245 [clock ticks] 472 00:36:21,845 --> 00:36:23,645 [Montefiore] For a second, it looks a bit like 473 00:36:23,725 --> 00:36:25,725 a family photograph's about to be taken. 474 00:36:26,245 --> 00:36:28,805 They're gathered around the two seated at the front. 475 00:36:29,565 --> 00:36:32,485 But in fact, things are getting darker and darker 476 00:36:32,725 --> 00:36:34,525 in the "House of Special Purpose". 477 00:36:34,845 --> 00:36:35,725 [doors bang] 478 00:36:41,605 --> 00:36:43,165 Nikolai Alexandrovich, 479 00:36:43,405 --> 00:36:44,685 Alexandra Feodorovna, 480 00:36:45,125 --> 00:36:46,405 Alexei Nikolayevich, 481 00:36:47,085 --> 00:36:48,085 Olga Nikolaevna, 482 00:36:48,645 --> 00:36:49,605 Maria Nikolaevna, 483 00:36:50,325 --> 00:36:51,445 Tatiana Nikolaevna, 484 00:36:52,245 --> 00:36:53,325 Anastasia Nikolaevna. 485 00:36:54,005 --> 00:36:57,205 The Ural Regional Soviet Committee has sentenced you to death. 486 00:36:58,485 --> 00:36:59,325 [Nicky] But... 487 00:37:00,405 --> 00:37:01,445 I don't understand. 488 00:37:02,685 --> 00:37:05,405 -[gasps] -You have been sentenced to death. 489 00:37:05,485 --> 00:37:12,045 -[a scream] -[gunshots] 490 00:37:13,525 --> 00:37:14,365 [thud] 491 00:37:16,005 --> 00:37:22,045 [screams] 492 00:37:22,245 --> 00:37:23,365 Finish it! 493 00:37:24,565 --> 00:37:25,965 [wailing] 494 00:37:26,045 --> 00:37:31,245 -[gunshots] -[screams] 495 00:37:31,365 --> 00:37:33,565 -Shoot! Fucking shoot! -[gunshots] 496 00:37:33,645 --> 00:37:40,645 -[screams] -[gunshots] 497 00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:44,645 One of the most tragic aspects of the murder of the Russian imperial family 498 00:37:45,245 --> 00:37:49,805 is that because they were wearing so many jewels sewn into their clothes... 499 00:37:49,885 --> 00:37:51,925 -[screams] -[gunshots] 500 00:37:52,005 --> 00:37:53,405 it was harder to kill them. 501 00:37:53,485 --> 00:37:59,525 -[screams] -[gunshots] 502 00:37:59,605 --> 00:38:03,645 They were essentially wearing the world's most expensive bulletproof vests. 503 00:38:03,725 --> 00:38:08,405 -[screams] -[gunshots] 504 00:38:08,485 --> 00:38:09,965 Stop firing. 505 00:38:10,045 --> 00:38:10,885 [gunshot] 506 00:38:13,325 --> 00:38:14,885 [Montefiore] In all of history, 507 00:38:14,965 --> 00:38:20,205 it's hard to imagine an act that was so utterly barbarous 508 00:38:21,205 --> 00:38:26,205 than the messy slaughter of the imperial family. 509 00:38:27,565 --> 00:38:30,565 [girl's shaky breathing] 510 00:38:31,565 --> 00:38:34,125 [sobs] 511 00:38:35,405 --> 00:38:40,165 -[footsteps] -[Anastasia gasping] 512 00:38:40,325 --> 00:38:41,165 [bang] 513 00:38:41,285 --> 00:38:42,165 [metallic tinkle] 514 00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:52,525 [birds calling in the distance] 515 00:39:00,485 --> 00:39:02,565 [Mr. Gilliard] I don't know how to break this to them. 516 00:39:04,045 --> 00:39:07,005 The Von Kleists told me, a few months ago, 517 00:39:07,085 --> 00:39:10,525 they and Anna had dinner with a Russian army officer 518 00:39:10,605 --> 00:39:12,525 who was based at the Alexander Palace. 519 00:39:12,965 --> 00:39:15,405 He told her about the nickname "Pixie." 520 00:39:19,525 --> 00:39:20,525 Then there is this. 521 00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:32,645 [Mr. Gilliard] She's been practicing for months. 522 00:39:36,645 --> 00:39:38,085 She's an imposter. 523 00:39:46,045 --> 00:39:47,405 She's still my patient. 524 00:39:48,285 --> 00:39:50,205 And she's in a very fragile condition. 525 00:39:51,725 --> 00:39:55,165 I think it's best you don't tell her about your discovery. 526 00:39:56,325 --> 00:39:57,285 Wait here. 527 00:39:57,685 --> 00:40:04,085 [footsteps] 528 00:40:06,165 --> 00:40:07,085 Excuse me. 529 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:11,165 I think it's best for you to come outside. 530 00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:26,085 [footsteps] 531 00:40:38,165 --> 00:40:41,485 [Mr. Gilliard] I have inside here, page upon page upon page 532 00:40:41,965 --> 00:40:45,365 of her attempting to practice the signature of Anastasia. 533 00:40:45,445 --> 00:40:46,925 The resemblance is not there. 534 00:40:47,245 --> 00:40:48,725 Our instincts were right. 535 00:40:49,125 --> 00:40:51,885 There is irrefutable evidence inside here 536 00:40:52,085 --> 00:40:53,525 that she is not the-- 537 00:41:02,325 --> 00:41:03,525 Are you leaving me? 538 00:41:10,725 --> 00:41:12,245 We'll write to you, I promise. 539 00:41:15,605 --> 00:41:16,765 I'm so glad we met. 540 00:41:18,565 --> 00:41:22,325 [patient] No, don't go. Please. 541 00:41:23,605 --> 00:41:24,445 Please. 542 00:41:26,365 --> 00:41:27,285 Please. 543 00:41:34,045 --> 00:41:35,205 We're not leaving you. 544 00:41:37,045 --> 00:41:38,525 We will see each other again. 545 00:41:40,485 --> 00:41:41,325 Goodbye... 546 00:41:43,805 --> 00:41:44,765 Anastasia. 547 00:41:45,845 --> 00:41:46,685 [Anna gasps] 548 00:42:03,645 --> 00:42:05,965 [Mr. Gilliard] It had been too much to ask for. 549 00:42:07,805 --> 00:42:10,125 Nobody could have escaped that massacre. 550 00:42:12,445 --> 00:42:16,805 The real Anastasia was almost certainly resting somewhere 551 00:42:17,165 --> 00:42:18,125 with her family. 552 00:42:20,045 --> 00:42:21,765 That was my only consolation. 553 00:42:36,565 --> 00:42:39,405 [Dr. Alexandrova] At the same time as the imperial family is killed 554 00:42:39,485 --> 00:42:41,565 in "The House of Special Purpose," 555 00:42:42,485 --> 00:42:46,845 The Bolsheviks try to eliminate all of the Romanovs under their control. 556 00:42:47,685 --> 00:42:48,565 [gunfire] 557 00:42:48,845 --> 00:42:52,645 [Dr. de Orellana] They execute a total of 18 members of the imperial family. 558 00:42:54,325 --> 00:42:56,965 [Dr. Alexandrova] They throw Alex's sister, Ella, 559 00:42:57,045 --> 00:42:58,165 down a mine shaft, 560 00:42:58,725 --> 00:43:00,845 and then they throw grenades on top of her. 561 00:43:01,725 --> 00:43:04,685 [Montefiore] She was heard singing hymns from down the mine 562 00:43:04,765 --> 00:43:06,285 before everything went quiet. 563 00:43:07,485 --> 00:43:09,325 But many of the Romanovs did get out. 564 00:43:11,245 --> 00:43:13,245 Minny, the last Czar's mother... 565 00:43:15,925 --> 00:43:18,405 Nikolasha, his supreme commander... 566 00:43:20,245 --> 00:43:22,325 And "The Black Crows." 567 00:43:23,445 --> 00:43:27,485 Their last great act is their escape, from the Crimea, 568 00:43:28,245 --> 00:43:32,725 aboard a British battleship, HMS Marlborough, 569 00:43:32,805 --> 00:43:35,405 as the Bolsheviks are pouring into the Crimea. 570 00:43:38,805 --> 00:43:41,565 [Dr. de Orellana] Also on board is Prince Felix Yusupov, 571 00:43:42,245 --> 00:43:45,885 the man that masterminded the assassination of Rasputin. 572 00:43:50,205 --> 00:43:53,085 [Dr. ALexandrova] About a week after the imperial family is killed 573 00:43:53,165 --> 00:43:56,485 the anti-Bolshevik powers take Ekaterinburg. 574 00:43:57,205 --> 00:44:00,325 They try to figure out what happened to the royal family. 575 00:44:03,685 --> 00:44:06,565 [Dr. de Orellana] Pierre Gilliard travels to Ekaterinburg. 576 00:44:06,645 --> 00:44:09,765 He sees "The House of Special Purpose" for himself. 577 00:44:10,765 --> 00:44:13,285 He sees the cellar riddled with bullets. 578 00:44:14,205 --> 00:44:15,045 Shoot! 579 00:44:15,165 --> 00:44:17,245 -[screams] -[gunshots] 580 00:44:17,325 --> 00:44:18,565 [screams] 581 00:44:18,645 --> 00:44:20,605 [Dr. de Orellana] And tries to help find the bodies 582 00:44:20,685 --> 00:44:22,085 of the slaughtered royal family. 583 00:44:24,525 --> 00:44:26,965 In the Koptyaki woods near Ekaterinburg 584 00:44:27,045 --> 00:44:31,205 the investigation finds remnants of bones, but only fragments. 585 00:44:31,285 --> 00:44:34,365 They do not find bodies that would prove the deaths 586 00:44:34,445 --> 00:44:36,725 of all of the members of the imperial family. 587 00:44:39,205 --> 00:44:42,365 [Dr. Alexandrova] As the Red Army nears victory in the civil war 588 00:44:42,445 --> 00:44:45,525 the anti-Bolshevik forces have to flee Ekaterinburg 589 00:44:45,605 --> 00:44:46,485 [boom] 590 00:44:46,565 --> 00:44:49,525 and they cannot finish the investigation. 591 00:44:53,245 --> 00:44:56,965 The Bolsheviks announce the execution of Nicholas II, 592 00:44:57,165 --> 00:45:00,045 but they do not say anything about the fate of the family. 593 00:45:03,325 --> 00:45:06,325 [Montefiore] They understood it would be a public relations disaster 594 00:45:06,405 --> 00:45:09,085 to admit the innocent children had all been massacred. 595 00:45:09,725 --> 00:45:13,685 And so they deliberately spread mystery over the story. 596 00:45:16,485 --> 00:45:19,365 [Dr. ALexandrova] About the same time as the Soviet Union is formed, 597 00:45:19,445 --> 00:45:23,965 rumors that one of the Grand Duchesses has escaped start circulating. 598 00:45:26,645 --> 00:45:31,485 One of the claimants is a young woman, later to be known as Anna Anderson, 599 00:45:32,005 --> 00:45:33,485 and she appears in Berlin. 600 00:45:34,805 --> 00:45:37,805 [Dr. de Orellana] Anastasia's Auntie Olga and Pierre Gilliard 601 00:45:37,885 --> 00:45:40,205 conclude that Anna Anderson is a fraud. 602 00:45:40,645 --> 00:45:41,605 Goodbye. 603 00:45:42,245 --> 00:45:44,885 [Dr. Alexandrova] And yet the young woman continues to claim 604 00:45:44,965 --> 00:45:49,085 that she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia for several decades afterwards. 605 00:45:50,645 --> 00:45:53,685 You can believe it, or you don't believe it. 606 00:45:53,765 --> 00:45:54,885 It doesn't matter. 607 00:45:55,165 --> 00:45:57,485 [Dr. de Orellana] DNA testing does not exist at this time, 608 00:45:57,565 --> 00:46:00,605 and so it is very, very difficult to conclusively prove 609 00:46:00,685 --> 00:46:03,605 that she is or isn't Princess Anastasia. 610 00:46:06,845 --> 00:46:10,365 In 1979, two amateur historians find a number of bodies 611 00:46:10,445 --> 00:46:12,285 in the woods outside of Ekaterinburg 612 00:46:12,365 --> 00:46:15,805 that might be the bodies of the slaughtered imperial family. 613 00:46:18,045 --> 00:46:22,965 [Montefiore] But 1979 is much too early in terms of Soviet history 614 00:46:23,045 --> 00:46:26,005 for anyone to accept finding the bodies. 615 00:46:26,085 --> 00:46:27,285 They were reburied. 616 00:46:27,845 --> 00:46:31,525 And it was only with the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1991, 617 00:46:31,605 --> 00:46:34,005 that the bodies were re-exhumed. 618 00:46:35,165 --> 00:46:39,085 DNA testing was possible on them with modern science, 619 00:46:39,165 --> 00:46:41,845 and members of the wider royal family of Europe, 620 00:46:41,925 --> 00:46:44,285 including Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, 621 00:46:44,365 --> 00:46:47,805 gave blood to enable the tests to be made. 622 00:46:49,765 --> 00:46:54,885 [researcher] The bones found in Ekaterinburg three years ago 623 00:46:55,645 --> 00:46:57,685 beyond any reasonable doubt 624 00:46:58,325 --> 00:47:02,085 are the remains of Czar Nicholas II 625 00:47:02,165 --> 00:47:05,045 and members of his family. 626 00:47:07,525 --> 00:47:10,805 [Dr. de Orellana] They test the remains of the imperial family 627 00:47:10,885 --> 00:47:14,885 against the remains of Anna Anderson and they find that conclusively 628 00:47:14,965 --> 00:47:17,085 she was not a member of the Romanov family. 629 00:47:17,165 --> 00:47:19,085 In fact, not even vaguely related. 630 00:47:19,885 --> 00:47:23,645 [Dr. Alexandrova] Franziska Schanzkowska was the real name of Anna Anderson. 631 00:47:24,005 --> 00:47:27,605 She was a Polish factory worker who was declared insane 632 00:47:27,685 --> 00:47:29,405 and went missing in 1920. 633 00:47:30,365 --> 00:47:37,245 [singing in Russian] 634 00:47:40,005 --> 00:47:44,565 [choir singing in Russian] 635 00:47:48,405 --> 00:47:50,085 [Montefiore] In 1998, 636 00:47:50,165 --> 00:47:54,485 President Yeltsin presided over the reburial 637 00:47:54,565 --> 00:47:57,205 of Nicholas and the imperial family 638 00:47:58,245 --> 00:48:00,285 in the Peter and Paul Cathedral, 639 00:48:00,445 --> 00:48:03,965 the ancestral tomb of the Romanov dynasty. 640 00:48:09,165 --> 00:48:11,285 But two bodies were missing. 641 00:48:18,205 --> 00:48:19,525 [Dr. de Orellana] In 2007, 642 00:48:19,605 --> 00:48:22,285 the last two bodies of the imperial family are found 643 00:48:22,365 --> 00:48:24,005 in the woods outside Ekaterinburg. 644 00:48:25,405 --> 00:48:28,285 [Dr. Alexandrova] Scientists, archaeologists, historians believe 645 00:48:28,365 --> 00:48:29,765 that these are the remains 646 00:48:29,845 --> 00:48:32,165 of Alexei and his sister Maria.  647 00:48:32,245 --> 00:48:34,645 These remains still await burial today.