Since the royal family were killed by Bolsheviks in 1918, rumors have persisted that Anastasia survived.
Bulgarian forensic expert Maria Grozeva said the bones of Russian emigr? Eleonora Albertova exhumed this month near Sofia would put an end to the mystery of whether she escaped.
"I have examined all available facts about Eleonora Albertova's life and I am positive that she and Anastasia were one and the same person," she said.
The bones of Albertova and those of her brother-- believed by local people to have been Alexei, the tsar's heir apparent -- are to be sent to Britain for DNA tests
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