Nadezhda Ivanova-Vasilyeva (? – 1971;Cyrillic: Надежда Владимировна Иванова-Васильева) was one of several women who claimed to beGrand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.[1] Vasilyeva first surfaced inSiberia in 1920, as she was trying to travel toChina. She was arrested by theBolshevik authorities and was imprisoned in succession atNizhny Novgorod,Moscow,Leningrad, and an islandgulag in theWhite Sea.[2] In 1934 she was moved to a prison hospital inKazan. She wrote letters in French and German toKing George V of the United Kingdom asking him to help his "cousin" Anastasia. At one point she changed her story and said she was the daughter of a merchant fromRiga. Later, she again claimed to be Anastasia. She died in an insane asylum in 1971. According to the head of the hospital in Kazan, "except for her claim that she was Anastasia, she was completely sane."[2]
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