IT WAS a lady-in-waiting to the Russian royal family, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna, who caused most trouble for the Bolshevik killers when they came calling on 18 July 1918.
And 75 years later, documents which have been locked inside the most secret archives of the British state are chilling in their account of the murders: "She kept running about and hid herself behind a pillow, on her body were 32 wounds. The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna fell down in a faint. When they began to examine her she began to scream wildly and they dispatched her with bayonets and butt ends of their rifles."
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