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She accrued a small base of supporters who believed her story of escape from Russia, and in 1963, Smith wrote "Anastasia: The Autobiography of HIH Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia," detailing the ...

The legend, and the entire underpinning of all the treatments of her story over the years, is that, in the fog of war, Anastasia survived. In fact, over the years, many pretenders did come forward.