Written down, yes, fact, not proven.
We have 4 witnesses here, and you refuse to believe them because it does not jive with your own view. But you cling to Dmitri Leuchenberg's words even after he has been proven to tell a lie. This tells a lot about you.
Perhaps her lack of Russian, English and French skills helped convince them. And I'm not getting into another Olga quote match, though I do have way more. Whatever she said when she wasn't sure stopped mattering when she realized it wasn't her. She even felt sorry for AA as a claimant who thought she was AN until that hateful letter from Gleb.
Please do get into a quote match, but make sure that Olga, not Ian Vorres is the one you are quoting.
That "hateful" letter from Gleb was in response to the "hateful" Copenhagen Statement, signed by 12 people, of whom only Olga had seen AA.
So we'll never know who gave her the answers!
What answers? She would tell Frau Rahtlef Keilmann details from the IF life in Russia, and she in turn wrote to Gilliard to verify the accuracies of AA's stories. And he would verify or correct the statements until the end of January 1926 when he suddenly switched sides and started calling himself "The Representative of the House of Hesse."
[/quote]No, they both stated clearly that she could only use German. Yes Felix used all four yet she only used German. Olga said "my nieces knew no German...German was never used in the family.."[/quote]
Yes, she used German, but UNDERSTOOD Russian and English. Got it?
Russians of today, hearing the awful accent on NOVA, declared her accent Polish.
And others declared her accent as coming from St. Petersburg.
Recognition FOR MONEY! From the time she mentioned the alleged huge Brit bank account, everyone had their fingers in the pie. Sorry, NO ONE is naive enough to believe no one wanted money, and only wanted to help poor little AA. Had there not been the idea of money, her story would have died in the gutter.
It would, wouldn't it. She mentioned the bank account in 1925, but no lawsuit was filed until 1927. And at first AA did not want any suit to be filed, all she wanted, was that the putative fortune in England would be tied up so that her aunts could not get to it. Botkin managed to do this with the help of Edward Fallows. Grand Duchess Xenia went to the Bank of England on July 18, 1928, ten years after the murder of the IF, and she was allegedly told that no information was available until the case of identification was cleared up. She yelled at Xenia Leeds who in turn yelled at Botkin. So if you want to find out who was after the money, you can start with Grand Duchess Xenia. When AA heard that her aunt had filed lawsuits in Europe in an attempt to find the Tsar's fortune, she gave the assent to Fallows to file suit for her recognition as well.
I knew this was coming. Sigh. So she forgot what dates she worked there, people do that! Then after she said 1922 someone told her she'd better correct it to predate the Clara declaration, and she blamed it on the newspaper making the 'mistake.' Come on, I wasn't born yesterday.
I don't think you are able to understand a very simple fact: AA left Dalldorf in May of 1922, so it is impossible that she could have told nurse Malinovski ANYthing in fall of 1922. Besides, the protocols at Dalldorf confirmed the dates of nurse Malinovski's hiring.
Doesn't matter, because the emigres' who came to see her knew English and French too. Loads of people came to see her, we'll never know who told her what and when, but it all came from somewhere else since AA was FS.
I guess the whole world traipsed through the livingroom at the Kleist's from May till August, 1922. And AA had the most fantastic memory and hung on to every word.
Some she thought she could trick, the others, she avoided. She did a lot of face hiding and going under sheets. She was afraid. One of Xenia's grandsons said "my father was raised with the real AN. AA would never see him."
So, she tricked them, huh? She must have been very good at that.
As for the hiding and going under sheets, the only one she did that with, was Isa Buxhoeveden, whom she suspected of betrayal.
As for Xenia's sons, there was never a question of her refusing to see them. They never asked. Being the offspring of her opposition, AA asked Xenia Leeds not to invite them to the estate when she was there. One morning, Xenia had one of them over for tennis, thinking that AA would never know. But AA was furious, she heard the voice and recognized "one of the cousins."
Alexander's grandson saw her, though, and she immediately identified him as a "descendant of Grand Duke Alexander. I recognize him on his ocean-like walk." She reminded him of Xenia and Irina Yussupov.
She was probably worried that the farther it went, the more likely she was to get caught and be in trouble for fraud. It's very telling that she never wanted to speak for herself. She was afraid of goofing.
Oh, she was, was she. I can only quote Lili Dehn here: "She never made a mistake."
Okay, HIS slant. And a very fictional one
Yes, you would know, of course.
In a signed report on her general condition, Dr. Theodore Eitel stated that AA could not read Fraktur.
You can say this a thousand times, (though we've never seen any proof those books even exist)
So you think the judges at the Hamburg court dealt with information that was not there?
yet you completely ignore the repeated eyewitness accounts of those who knew her who say AN SPOKE NO GERMAN!
And I spoke no German at home, and still speak no German at home. And still I am fairly fluent.
The story is well known, but it still means nothing, considering the rumor was already going around, and there's no proof the trip happpened.
Lots of witnesses, but the court did not accept it as true.
It's YOUR slant on the story that Ernie set out to destroy a real AN over this. The reason he was against her was because a stupid faker was pretending to be his dead niece and trying to get money from it. How would you feel, if you had a murdered niece and that happened?
MY slant? How about Botkin, Rathlef Keilmann, Grand Duke Andrew etc.
And why did he then wait until AA spilled the beans about his alleged trip? And why did he not go after the other claimants?
