Best AI Website MakerThe words of those who knew Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanova.
On this page you will find the words of: Woronoff, Vyrubova, Dehn, Mossolov, Bitner, Kobylinsky, Buxhoeveden, Gilliard, Gibbes, Yurovsky.
Olga Woronoff
Anastasia was the most amusing; she was always full of mischief.
Anna Vyrubova
Anastasia, a sharp and clever child, was a very monkey for jokes, some of them at times almost too practical for the enjoyment of others. I remember once when the family was in their Polish estate in winter the children were amusing themselves at snowballing. The imp which sometimes seemed to possess Anastasia led her to throw a stone rolled in a snowball straight at her dearly loved sister Tatiana. The missile struck the poor girl fairly in the face with such force that she fell senseless to the ground. The grief and horror of Anastasia lasted for many days and permanently cured her of her worst propensities to practical jokes.
Lili Dehn
Anastasie, the youngest Grand Duchess, might have been composed of quicksilver, instead of flesh and blood; she was most amusing, and she was a very clever mimic. She saw the humorous side of everything, and she was very fond of acting; indeed, Anastasie would have made an excellent comedy actress. She was always in mischief, a regular tom-boy, but she was not backward in her development, as M. Gilliard once stated. Anastasie was only sixteen at the time of the Revolution - no great age after all. She was pretty, but hers was more of a clever face, and her eyes were wells of intelligence.
A.A. Mossolov
The youngest - Anastasia (eleven) was still a child. When she was very small, she promised to turn into quite a beauty - but this was not realized. Her face was less regular than that of her sisters, but very lively. If you happened to be sitting next to her at table, you had constantly to be ready for some unexpected question. She was bolder than her sisters and very witty.
Klavdia Bitner
Anastasia Nikolaevna was the only one who was somewhat uncouth and rude. She was not serious at all. She did not like studying or preparing her lessons. She always relied on Maria Nikolaevna. ... Anastasia Nikolaevna was still a child and they treated her as such, as a "little one".
Eugene Kobylinsky
The Grand Duchess Anastasia, I believe, was seventeen. She was over-developed for her age; she was stout and short, too stout for her height; her characteristic feature was to see the weak points of other people and to make fun of them. She was a comedian by nature and always made everybody laugh. She preferred her father to her mother and loved Maria Nicholevna more than the other sisters.
Sophie Buxhoeveden
[Maria] was ruled entirely by her youngest sister, Anastasia Nicolaevna, nicknamed by her mother ‘the imp.’
Perhaps Anastasia Nicolaevna would have grown up the prettiest of the sisters. Her features were regular and finely cut. She had fair hair, fine eyes, with impish laughter in their depths, and dark eyebrows that nearly met. These combined to make the youngest Grand Duchess quite unlike any of her sisters. She had a type of her own and was more like her mother’s than her father’s family. She was rather short even at seventeen, and was, then decidedly fat, but it was the fatness of youth. She would have outgrown it, as had her sister Marie.
Anastasia Nicolaevna was the originator of all mischief, and was witty and amusing as she was lazy at her lessons. She was quick and observant, with a quick sense of humor, and was the only one one sisters who never knew the meaning of shyness.
Pierre Gilliard
Anastasie Nicolaïevna, on the other hand, was very roguish and almost a wag. She had a very strong sense of humour, and the darts of her wit often found sensitive spots. She was rather an enfant terrible, though this fault tended to correct itself with age. She was also extremely idle, though with the idleness of a gifted child. Her French accent was excellent, and she acted scenes from comedy with remarkable talent.
She was so lively, and her gaiety so infectious, that several members of the suite had fallen into the way of calling her "Sunshine," the nickname her mother had been given at the English Court.
Sydney Gibbes
The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna was sixteen or seventeen years old; she was short, stout and was, in my opinion, the only one in the family that appeared to be ungraceful. Her hair was of a lighter color than that of Maria Nicholaevna. It was not wavy and soft, but lay flat on the forehead. Her eyes were grey and beautiful, her nose straight. If she had grown and got slim she would have been the prettiest in the family. She was refined and very witty. She had the talents of a comic actor, she made everybody laugh, but never laughed herself. It appeared as if her development had stopped and, therefore, her capacity faded a little. She played the piano and painted, but was only in the stage of studying both.
Yakov Yurovsky
Anastasia the youngest, flushed, with a rather pretty little face.
(From the Private Presidential Archives of the Russian Federation, APRF f.3 op 58 d. 280)
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