Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 17, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 18:39, 21 November 2014 (UTC)



Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901–18) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna. Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Maria, and was an elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. She was executed with her family in an extrajudicial killing by members of Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, on 17 July 1918. Persistent rumors of her possible escape have circulated since her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. The mass grave near Ekaterinburg which held the remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three daughters was revealed in 1991, but the bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and one of his sisters—either Anastasia or her older sister Maria—were not discovered there.

2 points: Promoted two or more years ago 1 point: Date she died 2 points: Widely Covered

Total: 5 points

Lucky102 (talk) 21:48, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, historical and educational. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:02, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong support nice blurb, interesting topic, counters systemic bias and a quite stunning image. What's not to like? --Dweller (talk) 22:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Just one thing, I've tweaked the blurb to follow date-month-year format - as it's about a Russian topic I don't really see the point of using the idiosyncratic US format. Prioryman (talk) 21:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per Dweller, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I will schedule this, but it's a shame that I have to do the work to make the blurb the proper length - it's only 75% of the length it should be. BencherliteTalk 18:30, 2 July 2013 (UTC)