Anastasia: The autobiography of H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia

The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna was born in Peterhof, Russia, in 1901. A member of a close-knit family, the Grand Duchess was educated--as were her three sisters and her brother, the Tsesarevich Alexei--by private tutors, Russian, English and Swiss.

She accompanied her Family on several trips abroad and on numerous trips within the country, including extensive travel in 1913--a year widely celebrated in Russia as the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the ascension to the throne of the first Romanov, Michael Feodorovich.

After the escape of the Grand Duchess Anastasia from Russia--the point at which the present volume ends--she lived for short periods in Rumania and Yugoslavia and for many years in the United States, principally in Illinois and Wisconsin. She is now an American citizen and is currently living in New York City.

A future volume, on which she is working, will deal with her life and experiences in the post-escape years.

A lover of animals, the Grand Duchess is now completing a short book entitled My Friends: the Dogs, all of the royalties from which will be contributed to animal shelters and organizations devoted to the health and well-being of dogs.

The Grand Duchess Anastasia is creating a foundation which will establish and maintain a museum devoted to Russian culture and containing a chapel in memory of her Family. A substantial portion of her royalties from her autobiography will be turned over to the foundation and to a very small number of charitable and philanthropic organizations which she has, for the most part, already definitively selected.