Editing Anna Anderson (section)

==Dalldorf asylum (1920–1922)==
On 27 February 1920,<ref>Berlin Police report, quoted by Krug von Nidda in ''I, Anastasia'', p. 89</ref> a young woman attempted to commit suicide in Berlin by jumping off the [[Bendlerblock|Bendlerstrasse]] bridge into the [[Landwehrkanal]]. She was rescued by a police sergeant and was admitted to the [[:de:Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge|Elisabeth Hospital]] on [[Lützowplatz|Lützowstrasse]]. As she was without papers and refused to identify herself, she was admitted as ''Fräulein Unbekannt'' ("Miss Unknown") to a mental hospital in Dalldorf (now [[Wittenau]], in [[Reinickendorf]]), where she remained for the next two years.<ref name=km93>Klier and Mingay, p. 93; Berlin Police report, quoted by Krug von Nidda in ''I, Anastasia'', p. 89</ref> The unknown patient had scars on her head and body<ref>King and Wilson, pp. 82–84; Massie, p. 163</ref> and spoke German with an accent described as "Russian" by medical staff.<ref>Nurse Erna Buchholz and Dr Bonhoeffer quoted by Krug von Nidda in ''I, Anastasia'', pp. 95–96</ref>
[[File:Anna_Anderson_Mugshot_1920.jpg|thumb|Photographs taken of Anna Anderson at Dalldorf Asylum after her suicide attempt in 1920.]]
In early 1922, Clara Peuthert, a fellow psychiatric patient, claimed that the unknown woman was [[Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia]], one of the four daughters of [[Tsar Nicholas II]].<ref>''I, Anastasia'', p. 91; Klier and Mingay, p. 94; Kurth, ''Anastasia'', p. 14</ref> On her release, Peuthert told [[White émigré|Russian émigré]] Captain Nicholas von Schwabe that she had seen Tatiana at Dalldorf.<ref>King and Wilson, p. 91; Klier and Mingay, p. 94, Kurth, ''Anastasia'', pp. 16–17</ref> Schwabe visited the asylum and accepted the woman as Tatiana.<ref>Kurth, ''Anastasia'', p. 21; Welch, p. 103</ref> Schwabe persuaded other émigrés to visit the unknown woman, including [[Zinaida Tolstoy]], a friend of [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Tsarina Alexandra]]. Eventually [[Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden]], a former [[Lady-in-waiting of the Imperial Court of Russia|lady-in-waiting]] to the Tsarina, visited the asylum with Tolstoy. On seeing the woman, Buxhoeveden declared "She's too short for Tatiana,"<ref>Klier and Mingay, p. 95; Kurth, ''Anastasia'', p. 25; Massie, p. 163</ref> and left convinced the woman was not a Russian grand duchess.<ref>''I, Anastasia'', p. 93; Hall, p. 340; Kurth, ''Anastasia'', p. 25</ref> A few days later, the unknown woman noted, "I did not say I was Tatiana."<ref>Klier and Mingay, p. 95; Kurth, ''Anastasia'', p. 26</ref>

A nurse at Dalldorf, Thea Malinovsky, claimed years after the patient's release from the asylum that the woman had told her she was another daughter of the Tsar, [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia]], in the autumn of 1921.<ref>Kurth, ''Anastasia'', p. 12</ref> However, the patient herself could not recall the incident.<ref>''I, Anastasia'', p. 91</ref> Her biographers either ignore Malinovsky's claim,<ref>Klier and Mingay, pp. 93–94, just describes Peuthert's claim.</ref> or weave it into their narrative.<ref>King and Wilson, pp. 88–89; Massie, p. 163</ref>