Nostalgia for autarchy
The legend of the survival of the Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, shot together with the rest of the royal family in Yekaterinburg, was fed long by mythomaniacs, nostalgic for Tsarism and a plethora of young people willing to go through it: Anna Anderson, Franziska Schauzkowska, a Polish worker in a psychiatric hospital, acquired the most notoriety: DNA tests carried out in 1991 showed that she was not related to the Romanovs.
