Forensic scientists, Professor Raoul Perrot* and Alisa Vladi, have confirmed that Anastasia Nikolaevna was saved during the Russian Revolution of 1917 through a biometric facial analysis.
For those of you who don't know Russian history, Russia used to be a monarchy with a King - the last King being Nicholas II. The Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Royal Family, imprisoned them, and then slaughtered almost all of them. (The Netflix series the Crown portrays this piece of history graphically.)
These events paved the way for the creation of Communist Russia with Vladimir Lenin to rule, with Joseph Stalin, succeeding him. It is estimated that between 7 to 10 million people died under Stalin.
There was a rumor that the youngest daughter of the last Russian King - Anastasia, however, survived. According to the forensic scientists above, the biometrical features of the nine year old photo of Anastasia matches a woman claiming she was Anastasia in two photos: one taken when she was 60 years old, and the other at 70.
The scientists have concluded that there's a 96% "metric similarity". I have uploaded their paper here.
The representative of the Romanov family still seeks justice and an acknowledgment of the murdering of his family from the Russian Communist Party. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explained it best, when he said, "The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology."
*I want to personally acknowledge the contribution that Professor Perrot has contributed to the field of forensics.
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