Anna Demidova

Who was Anna Demidova?

Anna Stepanovna Demidova was a maid in the service of Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. She acquired posthumous fame because she was murdered alongside her employer in 1918.

She shared the Romanov family's exile at Tobolsk and Ekaterinburg following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was murdered with them on July 17, 1918. Like them, she was canonized as a martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1991 as a victim of Soviet oppression.

Famous Quotes:

• "I am so frightened of the Bolsheviks, Mr. Gibbes. I don't know what they will do to us."
• "Thank God! God has saved me!"