 Pocahontas is a young beautiful woman who is the princess in her father’s Powhatan tribe along the coast of New England  She is asked to marry another member of the tribe, Kocoum, although she does not want to  She finds John Smith, a young handsome English captain and they fall in love despite their differences

 Kocoum stumbles upon the two kissing, becomes enraged, and attacks Smith. He is then killed by Smith’s friend, Thomas.  Because of this Smith is sentenced to die  Pocahontas saves his life but he is then shot by the governor Ratcliffe and is sent back to England

 When Pocahontas and John Smith met she was 11 and he was 28  John Smith wrote about her in his journal saying she was a “naked child who pestered everyone.”  Pocahontas did actually save John Smith’s life, but the reason behind this action is widely disputed.

 Kocoum never died, but Pocahontas was engaged to him.  She eventually met John Rolfe who would become her husband.  John Smith was never shot by Governor Ratcliffe because in the early years of the colony there was no governor.

 Anastasia (8) was the youngest daughter of the Royal Romanov family  She and her family are forced to leave the palace because a sorcerer named Rasputin places a curse on the royal family and starts a revolution in Russia.  Only Anastasia and Marie, her grandmother, are able to escape with their lives thanks to the help of a boy named Dimitri.  While escaping Anastasia is separated from her grandmother because she falls, therefore losing her memory.

 Next, we are told that Anastasia, now called Anya, is living in an orphanage at about the age of 18. She leaves due to her age and goes to St. Petersburg.  She encounters Dimitri and Vladimir, who are impressed by her resemblance to the Grand Duchess and recruit her as the “fake” Anastasia.  They go to Paris to present her to her grandmother to collect a reward for finding the missing heir.  Rasputin, now a corpse, finds out that she is alive and he restores his powers and sets out to kill her.

 They arrive in Paris only to find out that Marie has called off the search for the lost duchess.  When Anya recalls Dimitri opening the secret passageway, that helped them escape, he realizes that he and Vladimir have found the missing Grand Duchess  Unfortunately, Marie refuses to see the “fake” Anastasia until Dimitri convinces her to see Anya.  They meet and realize that she is indeed the real Anastasia and she will now be placed back onto the throne  With one final attempt Rasputin tries to kill Anastasia but Dimitri saves her and they elope.

 Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.  Her father was losing loyalty and favor with the people of Russia and was forced to abdicate the thrown.  Rasputin was a monk who was a close advisor to the czar and had close relationships with the whole family. He was a close friend until his murder in  At the rise of the Russian revolution in 1905 the royal family was forced to go into exile and remain there secretly to avoid execution.  In 1917 when Anastasia was 17 she and her family were brutally murdered by the new secret police in Russia.

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