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Princess Anastasia ALS

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Princess Anastasia ALS
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Youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Anastasia was murdered with her family on 17 July 1918, by forces of the Bolshevik secret police. Autograph note signed in Russian, ''Anastasia,'' on the front and inside of a 5.25'' x 2.5'' fold-open card bearing a color chromolithograph of two little girls in winter clothes and sable muffs, one of which carries a Christmas tree. Lovely little note from the eight-year old princess to her ''Shura'' dated 16 October 1909. In part (translated) ''...How are you, how is your health?...'' Some scattered light toning and soiling, primarily to first page and a bit of trivial surface loss to top right corner, otherwise fine condition. During this period, Anastasia was undoubtedly under the medical care of Rasputin, the Russian mystic who treated her brother, Alexei, and who developed friendships with the Imperial children. A brief but tender note from the young royal.