Anna Anderson claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia for 64 years and fought German courts for 32 years for the Romanov money

In February 1920 Berlin police pulled a young woman from the Landwehr Canal after a suicide attempt. In an asylum she came to be identified, and then identified herself, as Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. Some Romanov relatives and former courtiers believed her; most of the family did not. In 1933 a Berlin court issued a certificate of inheritance for the Tsar's remaining deposits in Germany to his surviving relatives, on the basis that his children were dead. Anderson challenged it in 1938. The case moved through German courts for more than 30 years. In 1970 the Federal Court of Justice ruled that she had not proved she was Anastasia and had not been proved not to be. The disputed German funds were small^†. She married historian John Manahan in 1968 and died in Charlottesville in 1984. In 1994 DNA from a hospital tissue sample did not match the Romanovs and matched Karl Maucher, a grandnephew of Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish factory worker who disappeared in Berlin in 1920. In 2007 the remains of the last two Romanov children were found near Yekaterinburg, and testing in 2009 accounted for all four daughters.