Anastasia spent her early childhood at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, just outside Saint Petersburg. In 1904, the family moved into the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. Anastasia and her sisters were educated by private tutors and spent their summers at the imperial estate of Livadia in the Crimea.
During World War I, Anastasia and her sisters served as nurses in a military hospital. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Romanov family was arrested and sent into internal exile in the Siberian town of Tobolsk. In the spring of 1918, they were moved to the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where they were executed by the Bolsheviks on the night of 17 July 1918.
Anastasia's remains were not found until 1991. They were identified through DNA testing in 2007 and buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg in 2008.