Nadezhda Vasilyeva

– 1971; Cyrillic: Надежда Владимировна Иванова-Васильева) was one of several women who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

She was arrested by the Bolshevik authorities and was imprisoned in succession at Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Leningrad, and an island gulag in the White Sea.

She wrote letters in French and German to King George V of the United Kingdom asking him to help his "cousin" Anastasia.

At one point she changed her story and said she was the daughter of a merchant from Riga.

According to the head of the hospital in Kazan, "except for her claim that she was Anastasia, she was completely sane.