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Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson
by Peter Kurth
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Back Bay Books (1985-06-30)
ISBN: 0316507172
EAN: 9780316507172
Dewey Decimal #: 947.0830924
Paperback: 456 pages
SKU: 20410
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Paperback. All pages clean and free of marks.
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Customer Reviews
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Don't Confuse Mr. Kurth With the Facts
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-07-28
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Peter Kurth's insistence in holding to the belief that Anna Anderson was the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II is nothing less than pathetic. He tries, with no success, to discount and even ignore the DNA evidence indicating otherwise. On his web site, Kurth makes such feeble arguments such as DNA tests results cannot explain why Anna Anderson was fluent in English from an early age and a cultured lady. He is correct, but what DNA evidence can explain is that Anna Anderson is in no way genetically related to Nicholas II, the Empress Alexandra or any other member of the Romanov family. Kurth also points to the fact that two skeletons were missing and not re-buried in St. Petersburg. Now those skeletons have been found, in a grave near where the others were buried, and they are a genetic match with the Romanov remains.
If you are looking for a scholarly work on the subject, don't buy this book. Peter Kurth's attitude of don't confuse me with the facts cast serious doubt on all of his work.
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"Anastasia:The Riddle of Anna Anderson"
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-07-23
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
"Anastasia:The Riddle of Anna Anderson".....was a very interesting,captivating book....But I have questions: 1.If you had been at the receiving end of a firing squad,that murdered your entire family...and you lived.....would you be perfectly sane? 2.If you kept telling everyone that you were you....and they kept saying you weren't....would you be sane? 3.After your families' death...The banks of England pocketed all the money your family invested and said"there were no deposits"...and you show up to claim the money they stole....what would you do? 4.If the living heirs (from the other sides of the family) thought you were dead...and the "crown and possessions and title were up for grabs...and ever hoping that the possibility of "the Monarchy' would reign again.....what do you think"They" would do???? 5. If you were a ruler of one country and your family was the ruler of another...and those two countries were at war...and you went to try to get your relatives to give up control and get out....but knew that if anyone found out that you did this it would be your head!!!! What would you do? 6.If your country...that you loved..shot you...stabbed you...bayoneted you...disfigured you....and you LIVED...and escaped...and went to another country...what language would YOU speak??? Well...I'm not saying SHE WAS......but I think we'd all be a little bit crazy...sick...worn out from life and argueing that we were who we thought we were.....even if we weren't ...because we'd gone completely crazy!!!! .....the bottom line is:she kept the Romanov story alive for nearly a century!!! they might have been long forgotten if it hadn't been for her..............
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Another one for the nutjobs
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-09-30
7 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
The credibility of this book should have been destroyed by the DNA testing which disclosed Anna Anderson's true identity, but of course there are stil circles of people out there who will bend over backwards to invent any and every theory that works with their fantasy. If the science doesn't agree with them, then of course the science must be wrong. What else is new? That in the year 2007 people continue to tout this imposter as Anastasia is an insult to Anastasia's memory.
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Looking back on Anna Anderson
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-08-21
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
"Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson" was written before the "official" discovery of the Romanov bones, therefore, Anna Anderson could not have undergone DNA testing, when this book was published in 1983. Without getting into the DNA testing, there is one question throughout the story of Anna Anderson that was either never asked by Kurth or never asked by Anna Anderson's opponents. According to Anderson's story, she ["Anastasia"] escaped Ekaterinburg with an Ipatiev House guard, Alexander Tschaikovsky. "Anastasia" and Tschaikovsky made their way to Bucharest, Romania--where "Anastasia" gave birth to a son, and the two were married in a Catholic church. Here's the problem. Anastasia Romanov was Orthodox. Why would she marry in a Catholic church? In Russia, this could be understandable; but in Romania, which is also predominately Orthodox? That is one question Kurth, or Anderson's opponents, never asked.
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Compelling proof
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-10-03
6 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
Numerous other reviewers have already gone into massive detail about all of the evidence Mr. Kurth produces to establish that "Anna Anderson" was indeed Grand Duchess Anastasiya, so I'm not going to write yet another length missive repeating what so many other people have already reiterated. I had only been a Russophile for three years when I read this book, and absolutely loved it; the next year I was able to write a research paper on this very topic (though Mr. Kurth's book wasn't one of the resources I used for my research), proving that these two women were one and the same, with so much compelling proof that one must question what really happened when the DNA test was administered. My research turned up a story about a shady figure named Willy Korte who was hanging around the lab and who quite possibly saw sensitive information on the papers in a folder. Not only that, but when the researchers first went to get the DNA, it was lost, and they spent several hours searching for it. Seems pretty suspicious to me.
However, this book was written before the DNA test was done, so that issue is really neither here nor there and should be the topic of another book, or maybe even additional material in an updated reissue. If Mr. Kurth were really so "obsessed" with proving "Mrs. Anderson" were really Anastasiya, he would have been grasping at straws and painting circumstantial evidence as unquestionable proof. He does absolutely none of that here. There's enough proof here to convince even a hardened skeptic. If this woman really were such a fraud and had been nothing but some peasant bumpkin woman, why did the missing peasant woman's own relatives say they didn't recognise her and had never seen her before in their lives? Why did both Anastasiya and "Anna Anderson" have the foot disorder hallux valgus? Why did this mysterious woman have scars on her body corresponding exactly to the wounds inflicted by the regicidal murderers? Why did she recognise so many people from her family and close circle of friends (like Duchess Olga and Dr. Botkin's children) and know so many intimate details about their lives? Why did she have eyes that were the exact same deep shade of blue as the tsar's? Why did they have the same fingerprints? How was she able to know about a secret visit the tsarina's cousin Kaiser Wilhelm made to St. Petersburg during WWI, something which no one outside of the Royal Family would have even known about? How did she know so many details about a hospital for wounded soldiers she, her mother, and her sisters often helped out at? She even corrected some of the veterans who tried to mislead her and prove her identity false, such as one who falsely claimed that her little brother had been there as well when they visited. Why did both women have the same handwriting? And in a German court of law, the comparison pictures of her ears and Anastasiya's ears matched on far more than just the bare requisite amount of similarities to prove identity, as well as the similarity between their faces. As one of the experts said, "Such similarity between two human faces is not possible unless they are the same person or identical twins."
There was so much compelling undeniable proof that it seems utterly ridiculous to say, "Oh, I guess I was wrong" just because of the results of a highly suspect DNA test. It seems as though most people who dismiss "Anna Anderson" as a fraud have never even done any in-depth reading on this subject, don't know about all of this massive proof, have no idea about the monkey business that went on concerning the alleged DNA. Far from a delusional fraud or a peasant woman with amnesia, this woman was truly the real deal.
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