Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia in 1918, Princess Helena Petrovna, the wife of Anastasia's distant cousin, Prince John Constantinovich of Russia, reported that a guard brought a girl who called herself Anastasia Romanova to her cell and asked if the girl was the daughter of the Tsar. Helena Petrovna said she did not recognize the girl and the guard took her away. Although other witnesses in Perm later reported that they saw Anastasia, her mother and sisters in Perm after the murders, this story is now widely discredited. Rumors that they were alive were fueled by deliberate misinformation designed to hide the fact that the
Feodosia Alekseyevna of Russia Feodosia Alekseyevna of Russia Tsarevna Feodosia Alekseyevna (; 29 March 1662 – 14 December 1713) was the seventh daughter of Tsar Alexis of Russia and Maria Miloslavskaya, sister of Tsar Feodor III of Russia and Tsar Ivan V of Russia and half-sister of Tsar Peter the Great. Feodosia Alekseyevna was described as modest and sacrificial, with a need to be of use to those closest to her, and she lived a life in seclusion in the terem (Russia) with her sisters and aunts, to whom she was devoted, and reportedly took no part in politics or the intrigues of the