Taking A Look At Anastasia Romanov

Anastasia Research Paper
Anastasia should feature as a focus for the 2018-2019 Wise Broadway Tour. As part of this tour, selected individuals are able to see different Broadway shows. Anastasia features a heavy emphasis on history and encourages children and young adults to look into the backstory of what they watch. While Anastasia doesn’t follow the exact history of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, it piques the interest of the audience and poses a what if she had lived question that the audience will think about long after the play ends. Another influence apparent to those who attend the Tour is the cultural differences between two regions in the United States, which hold a heavy emphasis in Anastasia through the geographical changes
Petersburg,” the rumor that “although the Tsar did not survive” his daughter, Anastasia, did survive the execution of her family. This popular theory stems from the accounts of Anna Anderson, the best-known imposter of Anastasia Romanov. Anderson was likely Franziska Schanzkowska, a mentally ill factory worker from Poland. Anderson was placed in a mental institution after jumping off a bridge in Berlin in 1920. While in the institution, another patient told her she looked like Tatiana, the second child of the Tsar and Tsarina. Anderson later claimed to the missing Grand Duchess and after her release, she made it her mission to convince everyone she was the real Anastasia Romanov. While many believed her stories, such as the son of the royal family’s doctor and Grand Duke Alexander; the Tsar’s brother-in-law, many others did not; two of Anastasia’s aunts and her cousin and his wife. Due to this, she never acquired the fortune of the former Russian rulers after a long court case ended in 1970 in Germany. Anderson moved to the United States in 1968 and died there in 1984. In 1991, DNA testing conducted on the five remains found in a mass grave concluded they were part of the royal family. Then, in 2007, two more bodies found in another grave, near the first, underwent testing and evidence concluded it was the Tsarevich, Alexei, and the final daughter. However, disputes occur on whether it was Anastasia or Maria found with
When the Bolsheviks took control, they made the people convert to atheism or face harassment. Over one thousand priests were killed and arrested during this time. During the revolution, many high ranking people fled Russia, as described in the song “Land of Yesterday” in the musical. Lily and the ensemble sing “we’re not dead now, we’re in France instead now.” They also sing about being rich and having no worries throughout the song as opposed to living in 1920’s France on the little wealth they managed to flee Russia with. In “Land of Yesterday,” the women sing about how they fled with diamonds and had to sell their jewelry to survive. Those members of the high class were accustomed to a culture with lavish parties and “afternoon card games with the Tsar.” They made the best of their situation, but deeply missed their homeland and their old lifestyle, as many people would if they had gone through a similar