RUSSIA: Anastasia

By jumping off a bridge at Berlin in 1920 an obscure young woman started ripples of cause and effect which expanded in grandeur until, last week, she stepped off the Bejengaria, at Manhattan, as Her Imperial Highness, Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of the last Tsar of all the Russias.

Those who fished the young woman out of Berlin waters found her in delirium and unable to tell her own name. Taken to a sanitarium, she encountered one Fraulein Peutert who soon made the striking announcement that the new patient was the Grand...

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