**1922:** The asylum patient is identified by some as Grand Duchess Tatiana, then as Anastasia. She adopts the name Anna Tschaikovsky.
**Mid-1920s:** A series of supporters and skeptics visit her. Grand Duchess Olga and Princess Irene both reject the claim. Gleb Botkin becomes her primary advocate.
**1927:** A newspaper report identifies her as Franziska Schanzkowska. Felix Schanzkowski visits, acknowledges resemblance, does not confirm identity.
**1928:** Anderson travels to the United States, stays with supporters, is subsequently institutionalized.
**1930–1931:** Returns to Germany. Legal proceedings begin.
**1950s–1960s:** Extended German court proceedings produce large evidentiary record. The 1956 Broadway play and film give the story major cultural circulation.
**1968:** Marries John Manahan in Charlottesville, Virginia.
**1970:** German Federal Supreme Court rules that Anderson was neither proven to be Anastasia nor proven not to be.
**1979:** Undergoes intestinal surgery at a Charlottesville hospital; tissue retained in paraffin wax.
**February 12, 1984:** Anderson dies of pneumonia in Charlottesville. She is cremated and buried at Castle Seeon.
**1991:** Soviet-era burial site of the Romanov family is publicly disclosed and excavated. Nine remains identified.
**1994:** DNA testing of Anderson’s biological material is announced. Two independent teams confirm exclusion from Romanov maternal line and match to Schanzkowska maternal line.
**January 1995:** Nature Genetics publishes the Stoneking et al. paper.
**1998:** Romanov remains from 1991 reinterred in Peter and Paul Cathedral.
**2007:** Additional remains found 70 meters from 1991 site, consistent with missing Alexei and one daughter.
**2008–2009:** DNA analysis confirms remaining two Romanov children. All family members accounted for. Coble et al. published in PLOS One.