{"id":20910,"date":"2022-12-26T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T09:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=222098"},"modified":"2022-12-26T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:35:09","slug":"conspiracy-did-anastasia-escape-her-familys-murder","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/conspiracy-did-anastasia-escape-her-familys-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family\u2019s murder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 26 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In the third episode of our new series on some of history\u2019s most well-known conspiracy theories, we examine the suggestion that one of Tsar Nicholas II\u2019s daughters \u2013 Anastasia \u2013 survived the family\u2019s murder by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Speaking with Rob Attar, historian Helen Rappaort explains why people believe that Anastasia escaped and what recent scientific and archaeological research has revealed about this tragic episode.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-222098-3&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/HistoryExtraConspiraciesE3-b9712aa.mp3?_=3&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/HistoryExtraConspiraciesE3-b9712aa.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/HistoryExtraConspiraciesE3-b9712aa.mp3<\/a><\/audio> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rob Attar Published: Monday, 26 December 2022 at 12:00 am In the third episode of our new series on some of history\u2019s most well-known conspiracy theories, we examine the suggestion that one of Tsar Nicholas II\u2019s daughters \u2013 Anastasia \u2013 survived the family\u2019s murder by the Bolsheviks in 1918. 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