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ShortHand: Princess Anastasia - The Russian Royal Imposter

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The year was 1917, and revolution was in the air in Russia. After sustaining heavy losses in WW1, the fall of the House of Romanov seemed inevitable. And one night the Tsar, his wife, and their five children, were shot, stabbed, burned with acid, set on fire, blown up with grenades and buried deep in Koptyaki forest. 

But then, rumours began to circulate that there had been survivors of the massacre… And over the years, numerous women came forward claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. What follows is a story of “delusion, fabrication, sham, romance, burlesque, travesty and humbug”. Press play to solve the mystery.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello. Welcome to Shorthand, where we're in a race against time because Mabel has the shit.

0:20.9

Because she ate some jalapeno crisps yesterday.

0:23.8

So we are.

0:25.0

We're living on borrowed time.

0:26.3

We're living on a prayer.

0:27.2

I do also enjoy that that microphone that we just moved so I could see your face looks like it's down for Mabel.

0:34.3

To directly just be like, excuse me.

0:36.7

Could you please stop?

0:38.2

How do you do the voice thing that Seb showed us?

0:40.2

Oh, I don't know.

0:42.2

Excuse me.

0:43.4

Can you please stop telling everybody about my diarrhea problems?

0:47.4

Thank you very much.

0:48.8

Hannah.

0:49.8

I wish I'd got a funnier voice.

0:51.8

It was still pretty good.

0:53.6

It was.

1:28.6

We've just discovered that the roadcaster we use as the interface to record in our studio, for some reason, in the upgraded version, they've added in voice effects. So, I don't know, watch out for more of those. Yeah, I mean, hours of fun. Oh, Rasputon needs one. Oh, does he actually, he doesn't really say anything. Rasputin doesn't know. He's long dead by this time. Never mind. But we are kind of revisiting Rasputin, and we just recorded a shorthand on rabies and kept talking about bats, and all I could think about was Bartok in the Anastasia. Is this the face of a bat who would lie to you? I said, ah, ha, ha, yada.

1:29.5

Kicker, sir.

1:35.3

Me and my sister used to do it all the time when we're a kid.

1:36.4

Stress, it's a killer.

1:44.3

Everyone who just listened to their first ever episode of Shorthand. I'm so sorry you've stopped listening.

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