Wissenswertes

Grand-aunt of Natalie Demidova.

Sister of Demidov Demidova and Elizabeth Demidova.

Daughter of Stepan Demidov.

In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized all seven members of the Russian royal family: Nicholas and Alexandra, and their five children.

The Bolsheviks, followed by the Soviet Union government, tried to suppress information about the executions of the Romanov family and their retainers. In 1979 the gravesite containing most of the bodies was found by an amateur, but the government did not acknowledge this until 1989, in the period of glasnost. DNA analysis and forensics were used to identify the Romanov members.

The remains of Tsarevich Alexei and one of his sisters were missing from this gravesite, but were finally discovered in 2007 in another, nearby, unmarked gravesite. Their identities were confirmed by DNA analysis, but the Russian Orthodox Church asked to retain Alexei's remains for more testing and, as of 2015, still held them.

Anna Demidova is featured as a character in the play, Ekaterinburg (2013) by D. Logan. It explores the time in captivity of the Romanovs and their retainers in the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg.

She was a good friend of Elizaveta Ersberg, a parlormaid at the court, and was once engaged to Ersberg's brother Nikolai. About 1905 Ersberg secured her friend a position at the court as a parlormaid.[3] In his memoirs, Charles Sydney Gibbes, the Romanov children's English tutor, described Demidova as "of a singularly timid and shrinking disposition."[.

Anna Demidova, whose nickname was "Nyuta," was described in adulthood as a "tall, statuesque blonde."[1] She was the daughter of Stepan Demidov and his wife. He was a well-off merchant in Cherepovets, where he also served on the Cherepovets City Duma. Demidova graduated from the Yaroslavl Institute for Maids with a teaching certificate.

A state funeral was held on July 17, 1998, in Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg for the Romanov family, Demidova, and the other victims killed by the Bolsheviks eighty years earlier. Demidova's great-niece, Natalie Demidova, was among the attendees. At the time, leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church did not attend because they disputed the identification of victims.