Maddess Aiort (died 1982) was a woman who claimed to be
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova; ; – 17 July 1918) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra. She was born at Peterhof Palace, near Saint Peters ...
, the second daughter of
Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...
.
Maddess Aiort
/ref> She died in 1982 of a serious disease still unknown.
Biography
The remains of the members of the Romanov family killed at Ekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administrat ...
in 1918, including those of Grand Duchess Tatiana, have been identified through DNA testing.
Very little is known about this impostor. Appeared in Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
in 1937 and immediately publicly declared herself "Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna." Explanations of how she managed to avoid the Yekaterinburg execution were never given.
Maddis Ayort’s statement was never taken seriously by anyone, the applicant was ridiculed, in 1942 (or 1943) accused of “sympathizing with the enemy” and forced to leave the country.
She later lived in Spain, where she died in 1982 from an unknown disease.
See also
*Romanov impostors
Members of the ruling Russian imperial family, the House of Romanov, were executed by a firing squad led by Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 17, 1918, during both the Russian Civil War and near the end of the First World War.
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References
Romanov impostors
1982 deaths
Year of birth missing
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