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5 Fairy Tales Based in Fact
It’s unlikely; barring living in a bubble, severe child abuse, or being locked in a prehistoric time capsule, that you aren’t familiar with the idea of fairy tales. You probably have also heard that the sugar sweet versions thatDisney mass-produces aren’t exactly true to the original versions of the tales. However, you probably didn’t know that a few of these too-good (or too weird, depending on the version you’re reading)-to-be-true storiesare actually based on historical people and events. Here then, are a few “stranger than fiction” real stories that inspired the fairy tales as we know them today.
Despite having a mother obsessed with the supernatural powers of a creepy, boozing, sex-obsessed mystic and a father who didn’t want her (or any daughters, for that matter), the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia actually turned out to be a fairly normal girl. That is, until she was placed under house arrest, brutally killed in a basement, and then supposedly resurrected in at least ten people.
After Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the princess and her Romanov family, less than welcome in their old palace, were very abruptly evicted in July of 1918 by a Bolshevik firing squad. Immediately, people began to believe that perhaps Anastasia had survived—a belief quickly seized upon by would be con-artists and romantics everywhere.
The most notable “Anastasia” was Anna Adams, who underwent a mindboggling thirty year legal battle to be recognized as a Romanov. However, upon her death in 1984, her DNA proved otherwise. Despite the extermination being very gruesomely delineated by one of the people who carried it out in 1989, the absence of two bodies from the mass grave of the other Romanovs led people to believe that Anastasia and Alexei, her brother, had actually survived the attack. However, this mass delusion came crashing down when the two missing bodies were discovered in 2007.
