ANASTASIA AGAIN: The Hidden Secret of the Romanovs

About the Book

In 2018 the author published the first edition of Anastasia Again: The Hidden Secret of the Romanovs to coincide with the centenary of the alleged massacre of the Romanov family in Ekaterinburg, Russia. After many years of interest in the claims of the woman known as Evgenia Smetisko, at times Eugenia Smith, or even Eugenie Smetisko, he began to give credibility to her claim that she had been the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra. Had she died with the entire family? Had any others survived or, even as some contemporary researchers allege, had they all escaped? By reexamining “Smetisko’s” memoirs published in 1963, researching the people who received her in the USA, and scrutinizing her claims a new narrative emerged, one of a woman living cleverly under an assumed name to protect her true identity. 2D/3D visual face recognition under the guidance of technology founder, Robert “Bob” Schmitt, offered even more evidence that she had been telling the truth all along, just as CIA polygraph lie detector unit founder, Grover “Cleve” Backster, had declared in 1963 after subjecting “Smetisko/Anastasia” to 30 hours of polygraph testing. This edition offers readers the opportunity to review evidence and question the hitherto “official” albeit sacrosanct version of history with which we are all well acquainted.

About the Author

(Johannes) Froebel-Parker graduated from a small town Central School in Marathon, New York. He taught English as a New Language for almost 3 decades in an upstate New York Central School District, having previously taught English as a Foreign Language for one year at the Marie Curie Oberschule in then West Berlin in an academic exchange program sponsored by Akademischer Austauschdienst. He completed his undergraduate B.A, M.A. (German Language and Literature) and M.S. (Education) at the University at Albany in Albany, New York-USA. From the earliest age he was captivated by the stories of his maternal and paternal grandparents who shared with him their oral histories from both sides of the Atlantic. Via his maternal grandmother there are a number of ancient genealogical connections to Queen Victoria via the family "von Juelich-Kleve-Berg" hence to Tsar Nicholas II, Taritsa Alexandra and their children. He is fascinated by the interconnected nature of genetics and family lore leading to the very Froebelian concept of "Einheit" (unity). Indeed, the Kindergarten founder is quoted as insisting "Jedes Dinges Wesen ist Einheit" (Unity is the Essence of All Things). With his research about Anastasia Romanov and the woman aka "Evgenia Smetisko" he hopes to contribute to such a notion. He is the author of various other books based on characters from his "Ahnentafel" (family tree), many with Authorhouse.