Natalya Petrovna Bilikhodze (russian: Наталья Петровна Билиходзе; 1900–2000) was a Romanov impostor, one of several women to falsely claim that she was

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, who was executed with her family by Bolsheviks at

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, Russia on 17 July 1918. Bilikhodze's claim was presented at a press conference in Moscow in June 2002. Bilikhodze claimed that Anastasia was not shot, but fled to

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, where she later married. Bilikhodze had begun using the name Grand Duchess Anastasia in 1995. The video of Bilikhodze bringing forward these claims was shown on Russian television in June 2002. It was later revealed that the video had been made two years before that, and Bilikhodze herself had died in

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and been dead since 2000. In January 2001, a commission of experts at the

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studied tissues from Bilikhodze's body and concluded that she was not related to the

Romanovs The House of Romanov (also transcribed Romanoff; rus, Романовы, Románovy, rɐˈmanəvɨ) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after the Tsarina, Anastasia Romanova, was married to t ...

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Romanov impostors 1900 births 2000 deaths Russian centenarians Women centenarians Date of birth missing Place of birth missing Date of death missing Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia {{Russia-bio-stub

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