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In what year did mitochondrial DNA testing finally identify Anna Anderson as Polish factory worker Franziska Schanzkowska?
Peter Gill's 1994 mtDNA testing at the UK Forensic Science Service matched a Schanzkowska grandnephew and ruled out any Romanov maternal-line match. Anderson had been dead for ten years and had claimed Anastasia's identity for sixty-three.
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The Berlin Asylum Patient Who Claimed to Be Grand Duchess Anastasia for Sixty-Three Years and Was Disproved by DNA Eleven Years After Her Death Anna Anderson was pulled from a Berlin canal in February 1920 and claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, surviving daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. She maintained the claim through forty-five years of litigation and three biographies. DNA analysis in 1994 — three years after her 1984 cremation — identified her as the Polish factory worker Franziska Schanzkowska.
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