Radio Interview with author J. Froebel-Parker and Guests with a Dramatization of the Taped Conversation between aka Evgenia Smetisko (Anastasia Romanov) and KGB defector, Michael Goleniewski

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Author Johannes Froebel-Parker believes the woman known as Evgenia Smetisko (aka Eugenia Smith) was the surviving HRH Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, whose family was murdered in July 1918 by the Bolsheviks (Book available here)

(Sep. 20, 2026) — Background: In 2019, after the 2018 centennial commemoration of the alleged elimination of the family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family and retinue, the author of Anastasia Again: The Hidden Secret of the Romanovs (https://www.ahnentafelbooks.com/) later Grand Duchess Anastasia: Still a Mystery? (2024 histriabooks.com/product/grand-duchess-anastasia) suggested dramatizing a conversation in the 1960s between aka Evgenia Smetisko (known also as Eugenia Smith) alias HIH Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia) and KGB defector, Michael Goleniewski. Garrett Roche, then host of the Monday Morning Show on WGXC Radio, 90.7 FM in Hudson, New York, was intrigued. He had followed every emerging detail in Froebel-Parker’s research to uncover the true identity of the woman who had lived her last decades in Newport, Rhode Island and had claimed to be the surviving youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, nee von Hessen und bei Rhein. The author had just read the December 31, 1963, transcript of a conversation between Smetisko/Smith/Romanov and well-known KGB defector, Michael Goleniewski. The captivating transcript is included in Guy Richards’ 1970 book The Hunt for the Tsar. The conversation, here in English but at the time in a mixture of English and Russian, had been taped by Grover Cleve Backster and subsequently sent to the Justice Department, rather odd if Smetisko/Smith/Romanov had been an impostress. Backster, who had subjected her to a 30-hour polygraph lie detector test and proclaimed that she had told the TRUTH about her identity, is credited with the polygraph protocols still used by the CIA. The dramatized conversation and interview with Roche, Froebel-Parker and guests is also included and offered to the reader here in transcribed form. JF-P

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One response to “Radio Interview with author J. Froebel-Parker and Guests with a Dramatization of the Taped Conversation between aka Evgenia Smetisko (Anastasia Romanov) and KGB defector, Michael Goleniewski”

  1. J Froebel-Parker

    Thank you for publishing this, Sharon. For decades the world has been drawn to the splashy and sensational version of Anastasia Romanov’s survival in the personage of aka Anna Anderson, later disproven by DNA. In a sense she took the oxygen out of the story of aka Evgenia Smetisko (Eugenia Smith) who has a growing list of credentials to substantiate her very credible claim that SHE was, indeed, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Elizaveta Feodorovna. In a sense, Anna Anderson’s place at the epicenter of international attention, gave a modicum of peace and tranquility for aka Evgenia/Anastasia to have a productive and unbothered life. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of aka Evgenia/Anastasia’s death. By publishing this article and continued research into her claim you help to prepare the world for her inevitable revelation. Her name means “Resurrection,” and her story certainly IS in that process.

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