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Inspired by the story of Anna Anderson (died 1984) who claimed to be Archduchess Anastasia, which would have made her the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia. Only DNA tests years after her death proved she was not Anastasia, but an imposter which European nobility had long suspected. See more...

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Mistake Continuity: When Dimitri, Anya, and Vlad jump off the train they have about 4 or 5 pieces of luggage. Then at the end of the song 'You can do it too' when they are standing on the ship they have two pieces of luggage and Dimitri has a duffel bag.

Mistake Factual error: Anastasia Romanov was born in 1901, but at the beginning of the movie, the Dowager Empress says the year is 1916; therefore, how can Anastasia be only 8 then?

Mistake Factual error: At the beginning of the film, we are told it is 1916, and the Russian Revolutionaries attack. However, the Russian Revolution didn't start until 1917 - on both the English and Russian calendars.

Mistake Factual error: The Czar was not killed until the civil war over a year later, although the film implies he was killed on that November night.

Mistake Continuity: In the scene on the boat where Dimitri gives Anya the blue dress, the piping along the sleeves and the bottom changes from white to nothing and back to white.

Mistake Factual error: Anya receives a sign from the dog to go to St. Petersburg when she leaves the Orphanage in the mid 1920's. St. Petersburg was renamed to Petrograd in 1914 at the start of WWI and again to Leningrad in 1924 following the death of Lenin. The sign should have said "Leningrad". Aside from signs, the whole movie mentions "St. Petersburg" multiple times. There's even a song about St. Petersburg. Even if every old sign could not be changed, there is no reason the people would not use the city's new name. The Bolcheviks would not have looked at them kindly if they didn't.

Mistake Continuity: when Anastasia is singing after leaving the orphanage, there's a part when you see Pooka playing with these squirrels and in the next shot they disappear.

Mistake Factual error: Anya reaches St. Petersburg in the mid-1920's, and the man in train station ticket office has the Soviet Crest on his hat. This crest wasn't used until the 1930's.

Mistake Other: In the song "A Rumor in St. Petersburg," according to the closed captioning, the characters sing the words "no proof of fact." According to the lyrics in the soundtrack booklet, they are actually singing "or through a crack." And if you listen, it's actually what they are saying.

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