Eugenia Smetisko, who lived in Newport from 1971 to her death in 1997, claimed to be the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, seen in the portrait at right. Little has been recorded about ...

The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits ... her younger sister Anastasia were often ...

Instead, Smith is considered to be one of several Romanov impersonators who claimed to be Anastasia in the decades following the royal family’s execution, capitalizing on rampant speculation at ...