Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia a Hollywood film, and ends up being recognized by the Russian soldier who originally rescued her from her would-be assassins. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (; – July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Anastasia was the younger sister of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria, and was the elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. She was murdered with her family by members of the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, in Yekaterinburg on July 17,
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia to South America. In later years, she lived in Montevideo, Uruguay, where she died on 13 March 2007. Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (; 12 July 1915 (O.S.) – 13 March 2007) was a great-great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and a niece of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia. She was the last member of the Imperial Family to be born before the fall of the dynasty, and was ultimately to become the last surviving uncontested dynast of the Imperial House of Russia. Born in Pavlovsk Palace, she was the second child of Prince