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Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson is a 1983 biography written by journalist Peter Kurth. The book chronicles the life of Anna Anderson, a mysterious woman who spent decades trying to prove she was Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Russia's last Tsar.The book details Anderson's sudden appearance in Berlin in 1920 after surviving an attempted suicide, and it traces her lifelong legal and personal battles to be recognized as the Russian royal heir. Kurth explores the "riddle" of her identity and the passionate community of Romanov loyalists who supported her claims.Although DNA testing in 1994 eventually proved Anderson was actually a Polish factory worker named Franziska Schanzkowska, Kurth's book remains a famous and highly sympathetic account of her life.