Anastasia is still alive when the bodies of her family are dumped in the Four Brothers Mine.Īnna Anderson’s story begins as she and her husband, Jack, await a report from the Hamburg court as to whether her appeal has been accepted or rejected. Anastasia’s loyalty to her family, however, will not allow her to save herself and keep her family from being slaughtered. He also tries to get her to leave with him when he learns that her family will be executed. This soldier protects her from being raped the night that her sisters are violated by the soldiers.
She falls in love with one of the soldiers who is employed to guard them. Eventually, the family is transferred to Ekaterinburg where they are confined to close quarters.ĭespite Anastasia’s situation, she still has the opportunity to learn some important lessons about life. When the Bolsheviks take control of Russia, most of the sympathetic guards are replaced. Anastasia describes how their situation becomes more and more desperate as they are first watched in Siberia by sympathetic guards who allow them a certain amount of freedom, including a trip to church on Christmas. Lawhon details approximately the last eighteen months of Anastasia’s life, the months in which her family was first held under house arrest in Alexander Palace. A few years later, Anna claims that she is Anastasia. The novel ends at the point where Anastasia’s family is slaughtered. She alternates between sections of Anastasia’s story and sections of Anna’s story. Lawhon presents the stories of both Anastasia and Anna in a non-linear form. She even manages to draw her reader into the possibility that Anna is who she claims to be. Lawhon tells the stories of both Anastasia and Anna in ways that are sympathetic to both women. Anna argues that without her, Anastasia Romanov would never have become a legendary figure. In Ariel Lawhon's historical novel I Was Anastasia, Anna Anderson defends her attempt to prove herself to be Anastasia Romanov, a member of the last Imperial family to rule in Russia.
The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Lawhon, Ariel.
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