The Resurrection of the Romanovs (57 page)

55.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 207; Heinrich Kleibenzetl, testimony of July 28, 1965, in Hamburg, XXVI, 4911–4924, 4935–4941; Alois Hochleitner, statement of April 8, 1929, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4465; Auclères, 25–27; Dr. Vladimir Poletyka, statement of May 23, 1929, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4468–4470.

56.
Arthur Rohse, testimony of November 20, 1956, in Hamburg VII, 69–70.

57.
Gilliard and Savitch, 24; Count Carl Bonde, statement in letter of October 13, 1952, to Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg, in Hamburg, Bln V, 96.

58.
Sokolov, 155, 158; see Rathlef-Keilmann, 196.

59.
Declaration of Constantine Anastasiou, April 8, 1926, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 220–222.

60.
Statement of Sarcho Gregorian, quoted in memorandum of Lieutenant General Heroua, Romanian Ministry of the Interior, Criminal and Police Department, Bucharest, May 4, 1927, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 223–224.

61.
See Lieutenant Colonel Werner Hassenstein, testimony of May 6, 1955, in Hamburg, XVIII, 3113–3118; Heinrich Dietz, testimony of August 27, 1958, in Hamburg, VIII, 3344.

62.
See Rathlef-Keilmann, 217–218; Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 107; Kurth, 62–63; the reverse of the photograph is in Rathlef-Keilmann, illustration 35, facing p. 209.

63.
Pokloevsky-Kozell letter to Serge Botkin dated May 17, 1926, in Gilliard,
False Anastasia
, 145–150.

64.
Statement of Baron Arthur von Kleist, quoting Zenaide Tolstoy, August 4, 1922, in Gilliard and Savitch, 49; Pokloevsky-Kozell letter to Serge Botkin, May 17, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 150; Kurth, 402, n. 88.

65.
Pokloevsky-Kozell letter to Serge Botkin, May 17, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 150.

66.
Princess Ileana of Romania to Brien Horan, 1972, in Horan, 39.

67.
Vorres, 177.

8 A Ghost from the Past?

1.
Konrad Wahl to Ian Lilburn and Peter Kurth, in Kurth, 54.

2.
See Inspector Franz Grunberg, letter dated June 19, 1925, in Hamburg, XIV, 2540–2545.

3.
Statement of Serge Botkin, March 1929, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

4.
See Inspector Franz Grunberg, letter dated June 19, 1925, in Hamburg, XIV, 2540–2545.

5.
Private information to the authors.

6.
Inspector Franz Grunberg, letter dated June 19, 1925, in Hamburg, XIV, 2540–2545.

7.
Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, in Gilliard and Savitch, 43; Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, statement of July 31, 1925, in Hamburg, Bln III, 185.

8.
Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg to AA and Alexei Miliukov, March 12, 1967, Miliukov tapes.

9.
Testimony of Eleonore von Oertzen, September 16, 1958, in Hamburg, V, 951–953.

10.
Inspector Franz Grunberg, letter dated June 19, 1925, in Hamburg, XIV, 2540–2545.

11.
Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, in Gilliard and Savitch, 43; Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, statement of July 31, 1925, in Hamburg, Bln III, 185.

12.
Krug von Nidda, 196.

13.
AA to Rathlef-Keilmann, June 25, 1925, in Rathlef-Keilmann notes, in Hamburg, Bln III, loose.

14.
Inspector Franz Grunberg, letter dated June 19, 1925, in Hamburg, XIV, 2540–2545.

15.
AA to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, letter of August 13, 1924, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

16.
AA to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, postcard dated August 30, 1924, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

17.
Marie Clara Peuthert to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, letter dated September 10, 1924, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

18.
Secretary Gaebel to Baroness Marie von Kleist, letter dated September 21, 1924, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

19.
Horan, 84.

20.
Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg, quoted in Summers and Mangold, 218.

21.
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich to Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, letter dated February 10, 1955, in Hamburg, XIV, 2549.

22.
Lyons, Note 52.

23.
Nicholas Sablin, quoted in Spiridovich to Gilliard, letter dated December 8, 1928, in Gilliard and Savitch, 39–40.

24.
Kurth, 59.

25.
Nicholas Sablin, quoted in Spiridovich to Gilliard, letter dated December 8, 1928, in Gilliard and Savitch, 39–40.

26.
Baroness Marie von Kleist, affidavit of July 5, 1929, entered into evidence May 20, 1958, in Hamburg, III, 569–574.

27.
See Gilliard and Savitch, 37.

28.
Kurth, 60–65.

29.
Botkin,
Anastasia
, 355.

30.
See Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 262; Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 77.

31.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 18–19; Kurth, 99.

32.
Auclères, 70.

33.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 19.

34.
Gilliard and Savitch, 80.

35.
Zahle to Gilliard, letter dated August 4, 1925, and Zahle to Gilliard, letter dated August 26, 1925, in Gilliard and Savitch, 68.

36.
Gilliard and Savitch, 73.

37.
Dr. Ludwig Berg to Gilliard, letter dated January 13, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 61.

38.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 28.

39.
Ibid., 129–130.

40.
Amy Smith, testimony of December 18, 1965, in Hamburg, XXIX, 5387–5409.

41.
Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse to Victoria, marchioness of Milford Haven, letter dated February 7, 1927, in Staatsarchiv, Darmstadt.

42.
Nancy Leeds Wynkoop to Brien Horan, 1972, quoted in Horan, 49.

43.
See Cecilie, crown princess of Prussia, affidavit of October 2, 1953, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4696–4699.

44.
Vorres, 173; Rathlef-Keilmann, 47.

45.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 18.

46.
Kurth, 102.

47.
Ibid., 59.

48.
Kurth, 99.

49.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 48–49.

50.
Rathlef-Keilmann, statement of July 1925, in Ian Lilburn Collection; Rathlef-Keilmann, 50–51.

51.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 50.

52.
Alexei Volkov, quoted in
Posledniye Novosti
10, no. 1733, January 15, 1926.

53.
Rathlef-Keilmann, statement of July 1925, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

54.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 52.

55.
Ibid., 51–52.

56.
Dr. Serge Ostrogorsky, affidavit of May 21, 1929, cited in Kurth, 123.

57.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 77.

58.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, letter dated December 22, 1925, in Hamburg, Bln III, 181–182.

59.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna to Alexandra Gilliard, letter dated July 23, 1925, in Gilliard and Savitch, 64.

60.
Gilliard and Savitch, 58.

61.
Ibid., 65.

62.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 57.

63.
Gilliard and Savitch, 66; Gilliard to Vladimir Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307; Gilliard to Zahle, letter dated June 13, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 81.

64.
Gilliard to Zahle, letter dated June 13, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 81; Rathlef-Keilmann, 57.

65.
Gilliard to Zahle, letter dated June 13, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 81.

66.
Kurth, 107.

67.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 57.

68.
Gilliard and Savitch, 67.

69.
Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

9 Encounter in Berlin

1.
Hall,
Little Mother
, 342; Alexander Mikhailovich,
Always a Grand Duke
, 7, 212; Marie Pavlovna,
Princess in Exile
, 102.

2.
Xenia Alexandrovna to Michael Thornton, quoted in Thornton to Phenix, letter of January 10, 1998, in Phenix, 237.

3.
See Bella Cohen,
New York Times
, March 28, 1926.

4.
Olga Alexandrovna to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, letter of December 22, 1925, in Hamburg, Bln III, 181–182.

5.
Zahle to Gilliard, letter of October 16, 1925, in Gilliard and Savitch, 69.

6.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 105.

7.
Gilliard and Savitch, 70.

8.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 98.

9.
AA (signed as Anastasia Tchaikovsky), affidavit of August 10, 1938, Berlin, in Hamburg, Bln I, 92–100.

10.
Cohen in
New York Times
, March 28, 1926.

11.
Gilliard and Savitch, 70.

12.
Olga Alexandrovna to Anatole Mordvinov, letter of December 4, 1925, in Hamburg, XIII, 2091–2092.

13.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 106.

14.
Vorres, 174.

15.
Rathlef-Keilmann, statement of November 20, 1926, in Hamburg, XIII, 2261–2270; Gilliard and Savitch, 70–71; Olga Alexandrovna to Mordvinov, letter of December 4, 1925, in Hamburg, XIII, 2091–2092.

16.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 99.

17.
Gilliard and Savitch, 70–72; Vorres, 175.

18.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 104.

19.
Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–73; Rathlef-Keilmann, 102.

20.
Zahle report, undated, quoted in Auclères, 74.

21.
Rathlef-Keilmann, statement of November 20, 1926, in Hamburg, XIII, 2261–2270.

22.
Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–73.

23.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 104.

24.
Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter of July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

25.
Gilliard and Savitch, 72–75.

26.
See Nicholas von Schwabe, statement of June 10, 1922, in Hamburg, XIV, 2519–2534; Nicholas von Schwabe to Gilliard, letter of December 12, 1926 in Hamburg, Bln III, 208; Gilliard and Savitch, 72–75; Olga Alexandrovna to Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, letter of December 22, 1925, in Hamburg, Bln III, 181–182.

27.
Gilliard and Savitch, 75.

28.
Olga Alexandrovna to Gilliard, letter of November 1, 1925, quoted in Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

29.
Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II, 281–307.

30.
Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–74.

31.
Olga Alexandrovna to Mordvinov, letter of December 4, 1925, in Hamburg, XIII, 2091–2092.

32.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 106.

33.
Gilliard to Zahle, letter of June 13, 1926, in Gilliard and Savitch, 82.

34.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 107.

35.
Ibid., 106.

36.
Olga Alexandrovna to Zahle, letter of October 31, 1925, in Hamburg, XXXII, 6025–6026.

37.
Undated letter from Olga Alexandrovna to AA, quoted in “Application to the Amstgericht Court, Berlin, in the Matter of the Estate of Anastasia Nikolaievna Romanov, Case No. 461.VE.733/38,” pleading submitted by Paul Leverkuehn and Kurt Vermehren on behalf of AA, October 31, 1938, and lodged in Hamburg under Bln, 33.

38.
“Application to the Amstgericht Court, Berlin, in the Matter of the Estate of Anastasia Nikolaievna Romanov, Case No. 461.VE.733/38,” pleading submitted by Paul Leverkuehn and Kurt Vermehren on behalf of AA, October 31, 1938, and lodged in Hamburg under Bln, 33–34.

39.
Alexandra Gilliard to Lillian Zahle, letter of December 14, 1925, cited in Kurth, 124.

40.
National Tidende
, Copenhagen, January 16, 1926.

41.
Gilliard to Kokovtsov, letter dated July 18, 1926, in Hamburg, II/281–307.

42.
See Cohen,
New York Times
, March 28, 1926. Cohen claimed to have heard details of the visits not only from Rathlef-Keilmann but also from the Gilliards at the Danish legation, an unlikely assertion that has proved impossible to verify. Aside from erroneously claiming that Frau Tchaikovsky had not been warned in advance of her visitors, and had greeted Olga Alexandrovna by name, Cohen’s article inaccurately insisted, among other things, that the patient “bears bullet wounds on her body and scars of a knife on her face and skull”; that Professor Serge Rudnev had treated Anastasia in 1914; and that while delirious, the patient had spoken in Russian to Professor Rudnev—the latter something that, had it actually occurred, would certainly have been noted by Rathlef-Keilmann.

43.
Xenia Georgievna, Mrs. Herman Jud, testimony of February 10, 1958, at the West German consulate in New York City, in Hamburg, IV, 749–751.

44.
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich to Serge Botkin, letter of March 14, 1927, quoted in Horan, 104.

45.
See Rathlef-Keilmann, 107; Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 41–42.

46.
Tatiana Botkin to Serge Botkin, letter of October 27, 1926, cited in Kurth, 120; information from Ian Lilburn to the authors.

47.
Andrei Vladimirovich to Serge Botkin, letter of March 14, 1927, quoted in Horan, 103.

48.
Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–73; Rathlef-Keilmann, 104.

49.
Zahle to Serge Botkin, letter of November 26, 1926, in Hamburg, XIII, 2271–2272.

50.
Zahle questionnaire, October 31, 1938, in Hamburg, XVIII, 7–16.

51.
Rathlef-Keilmann, statement of March 15, 1926, in Hamburg, XVI, 133-137.

52.
Rathlef-Keilmann to Serge Botkin, letter of August 4, 1926, quoted in Auclères, 72–73; Rathlef-Keilmann, 104.