Tatiana Botkina

Who was Tatiana Botkina?

Tatiana Evgenievna Botkina-Melnik, was the daughter of court physician Eugene Botkin, who was killed along with Tsar Nicholas II and his family by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918.

In later years, Botkina, along with her brother Gleb Botkin, was a major supporter of Anna Anderson's claim that she was the surviving Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

Famous Quotes:

• "Only once then, it happened that my father tended the Grand Duchesses alone and performed nurses' duties for them."
• This fact has never been published anywhere, and apart from my father I alone knew anything about it."