Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. Hello, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: third season of Criminalia. This season, we're exploring the lives
Speaker 1: and motivations of some of the most notorious impostors throughout history.
Speaker 1: Gate I'm Maria Tremarqui and I'm Holly Fry And before
Speaker 1: we can actually dig into this episode's impostor, we have
Speaker 1: to talk first about Russian history. To lay a bit
Speaker 1: of groundwork here, the Romanov family ruled Russia for more
Speaker 1: than three hundred years, beginning in sixteen with Mikhail Romanov.
Speaker 1: The dynasty gave us Peter the Great, Alexander the Great,
Speaker 1: and the very famous Catherine the Great and Nicholas the Second,
Speaker 1: who took the throne in four was ultimately not destined
Speaker 1: to be Nicholas the Great. It was widely said that
Speaker 1: he was really a lot more interested in his very
Speaker 1: tight knit family than in matters of state. Is quite
Speaker 1: shy and gentlemanly, and he was known to be chronically indecisive,
Speaker 1: never a good quality for a leader, not at all.
Speaker 1: And he was also married to an unpopular German born
Speaker 1: empress named Alexandra the Romanovs have five children. Their fourth child, Anastasia,
Speaker 1: was born on June eighth. She was the youngest daughter
Speaker 1: of zar Nicholas the second and Zarina Alexandra. But Nicholas
Speaker 1: wasn't bombarded with congratulations when she was born. He was
Speaker 1: bombarded with headlines though about the couple not yet having
Speaker 1: a male air. This is one example from the New
Speaker 1: York Times, which read star has another daughter. Russian people
Speaker 1: again disappointed in their hope that an heir to the
Speaker 1: throne would be born. So that's not the most auspicious
Speaker 1: start to life, isn't no. And it's very telling that
Speaker 1: that's something that was being reported worldwide, not just in
Speaker 1: the Russian press, but New York Times over here in
Speaker 1: the States. Of the sisters in the family, Olga was
Speaker 1: the bookish one, Tatiana was a poised beauty, Maria was
Speaker 1: sweet and kind hearted, and Anastasia was well, my most account,
Speaker 1: she was reportedly a little bit of a hell raiser,
Speaker 1: just kind of that kid that's a free spirit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But considering that she was a royal, there's really not
Speaker 1: a whole lot of information about Anastasia's life, and historians
Speaker 1: believe that that's because there wasn't really anything remarkable about it.
Speaker 1: It probably wasn't much different, for example, than that of
Speaker 1: her sisters. And remember as well, she had been a
Speaker 1: disappointment in terms of the country's desires, so meticulously documenting
Speaker 1: her early life was probably not really a priority. Anastasia,
Speaker 1: along with her older sisters, as well as her younger
Speaker 1: brother Alexei, were known for their family name, of course,
Speaker 1: but they weren't really known for their health. Alexei lived
Speaker 1: with hemophilia. Anastasia suffered from a weak muscle in her
Speaker 1: back as well as painful bunyans on her feet, which
Speaker 1: both sometimes affected her mobility. Their mother often called upon
Speaker 1: Gregory Resputin, who was believed to have healing powers. Over time,
Speaker 1: though rescuted and became a close confidant to Alexandra, and
Speaker 1: it's said he had quite a bit of influence in
Speaker 1: her life. So this story is not about Rescpute and
Speaker 1: though so we're not going to get into the scandal
Speaker 1: of his relationship over the Romanoff children, and if we did,
Speaker 1: we could be here for days, so we'll move on.
Speaker 1: There's so much information in the world about Respute, and
Speaker 1: if you're just eager for a trip down the rabbit hole, yes,
Speaker 1: but in terms of the romanofs the children were formally educated,
Speaker 1: but they were educated at home, and we know Anastasia
Speaker 1: loved singing and dancing, and that she frequently painted with watercolors.
Speaker 1: Some reports about her hint that although she was quite smart,
Speaker 1: she also was not really what you would categorize as
Speaker 1: an attentive student. A lady in waiting to her mother
Speaker 1: called Anastasia quote a sharp and clever child who liked
Speaker 1: to play practical jokes on her siblings, not surprising for
Speaker 1: the hell raiser at all. While we don't really have
Speaker 1: an immense amount of information about her early life, and
Speaker 1: fortunately we do know about Anastasia's death. So her father,
Speaker 1: Nicholas the Second, abdicated the throne on March fifteenth, nine seventeen.
Speaker 1: That was in an attempt to prevent a civil war
Speaker 1: from breaking out. That attempt did not work. The civil
Speaker 1: war happened just the same, and he and his family
Speaker 1: were taken captive and placed under house arrest. It was
Speaker 1: early in the morning of July seventeenth, nineteen eighteen, that
Speaker 1: the entire royal family, including a teenaged Anastasia, were taken
Speaker 1: to the basement assured that they were being protected from
Speaker 1: their rebellious violence, but instead the family along with four
Speaker 1: members of their staff, which included Dr. Eugene Bodkin, the
Speaker 1: family physician, Alexei trump valet To, Nicholas Anna Demidova, may
Speaker 1: To Alexandra and Ivan Karatonov, the family cook, as well
Speaker 1: as the family's dog, whose name we do not know,
Speaker 1: but they were all executed in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The Romanov's
Speaker 1: extended family were either killed as well or they were exiled,
Speaker 1: and according to an initial statement from the firing squad,
Speaker 1: they had killed only Nicholas the second, but they later
Speaker 1: reported they had killed the entire family, but the anaesthesia
Speaker 1: was one of the last to be executed. The accounts
Speaker 1: of the men from that firing squad, however, were mostly
Speaker 1: confusing and mostly unhelpful, and they proved themselves only good
Speaker 1: for spreading rumors and gossip. The assassination was carried out
Speaker 1: by Communist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin.
Speaker 1: A quick and very high level history note on this
Speaker 1: time in Russia. So there was more than one more
Speaker 1: going on, including World War One. When Lenin and his
Speaker 1: party launched a coup against the Russian government that was
Speaker 1: Nicholas's government, and within two day July sixteen, outside of
Speaker 1: those executions of the royal family, there was no bloodshed
Speaker 1: and Lenin rose to power as the country's new ruler.
Speaker 1: The Bolshevik Party renamed themselves the Russian Communist Party, and
Speaker 1: Lennon served as the founding head of the government of
Speaker 1: Soviet Russia and then the Soviet Union until with Nicholas
Speaker 1: off the throne, the assassination was a permanent end to
Speaker 1: the royal family. The line of succession was over, and
Speaker 1: so was the Romanov reign. So right now we're going
Speaker 1: to take a break for a word from our sponsor,
Speaker 1: and when we're back, we're going to talk about royal impostors.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Criminalia. Let's get back to the story
Speaker 1: and talk about someone who was called Miss Unknown. Although
Speaker 1: Anaesthetia died in nine eighteen, for years following the assassination
Speaker 1: of her family, gossip and specy relations seemed to actually
Speaker 1: keep her alive in the mind of Russians. Conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: as well as impostors of the members of the royal
Speaker 1: family began to emerge, and there are impostors claiming to
Speaker 1: be pretty much everyone, including Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Alexei.
Speaker 1: But in total there were more than thirty women who
Speaker 1: impersonated Anastasia and one guy who claimed that he was
Speaker 1: her son. Those who have made the claim include a
Speaker 1: Leonora Krueger between nineteen o one and nineteen fifty four,
Speaker 1: who posed as the Grand Duchess in a Bulgarian village
Speaker 1: just kind of lived out her life telling everyone that
Speaker 1: was the scoop. It seems like they believed it. In
Speaker 1: the mid twentieth century, there is a tragic story about
Speaker 1: a mentally ill woman who spent years in hospitals and
Speaker 1: prisons in the USSR. She actually died in a psychiatric
Speaker 1: hospital in nine and the list really continues. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of people we could talk about, but here
Speaker 1: is an interesting one that is a little less tragic.
Speaker 1: One impostor actually wrote Anastasia's memoirs as though she were Anastasia,
Speaker 1: in which she described exactly how she escaped. That was
Speaker 1: all false, And I have a new book from my
Speaker 1: book class right. Perhaps the best known impostor of Anastasia
Speaker 1: was a woman who called herself Anna Anderson. So we're
Speaker 1: going to pause for just a minute, because this is
Speaker 1: an important thing to tell you. The next part of
Speaker 1: our conversation will include brief talk about a failed suicide attempt,
Speaker 1: which may be triggering for some of our listeners. So
Speaker 1: stay safe, mutis for just a minute, and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back with that. Okay, So here we go. In Berlin,
Speaker 1: in a woman was rescued from a canal after a
Speaker 1: failed attempted suicide, and after she was rescued, she spent
Speaker 1: several months in a psychiatric hospital which at the time
Speaker 1: was called Daldorf Asylum. And upon her arrival and intake
Speaker 1: at the asylum, though she was a total unknown. She
Speaker 1: had no sort of identification on her at all, right,
Speaker 1: which makes it really difficult when you're trying to do intake.
Speaker 1: So she became known at the hospital as Freuleine und Vicans,
Speaker 1: which translates into English as miss Unknown. So it said
Speaker 1: that Miss Unknown would lie in her bed with a
Speaker 1: blanket pulled over her face all day long, which to
Speaker 1: me sounds like a woman who was really scared, right
Speaker 1: and needs a little help. It took her nearly six
Speaker 1: months before she felt comfortable enough to get out of
Speaker 1: her bed and even to talk to other patients. Her
Speaker 1: name was actually not Miss Unknown, to surprise no one,
Speaker 1: it was Anna Anderson, and around this time at the
Speaker 1: psychiatric hospital she was at, a magazine article about Anastasia
Speaker 1: crossed Anna's path. A woman named Anna Kemnets, who worked
Speaker 1: at the asylum, gave an account of what happened. After
Speaker 1: Anna saw this article and we quote, she asked me
Speaker 1: if I didn't notice something about it, and I answered
Speaker 1: that I didn't. She then said, can't you see the
Speaker 1: similarity between us two. Anna's accent and her quote Romanov
Speaker 1: Blue Eyes had some patients wondering if the former Miss
Speaker 1: Unknown was actually Grand Duchess Anastasia, who of course had
Speaker 1: been executed in nineteen eighteen. And Anna didn't deny that
Speaker 1: she was, although at this point she didn't confirm it either,
Speaker 1: and because she was a bit coy about it, others
Speaker 1: in the hospital speculated that she was really royalty, and
Speaker 1: as a consequence, Anna became quite a curiosity, and she
Speaker 1: was a curiosity not just to the other patients in
Speaker 1: the hospital. Journalists and Russian aristocrats learned about this unusual
Speaker 1: woman and they kind of got hooked and a little
Speaker 1: invested in her story as well. Some thought she could
Speaker 1: be the genuine Anastasia, but others dismissed her as yet
Speaker 1: another royal fraud because remember, there had been a lot
Speaker 1: already by this time, yes, very many, And it didn't
Speaker 1: help that there were also very many rumors swirling around
Speaker 1: about this. For example, and this is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite rumors that popped up, it was suggested that the
Speaker 1: Romano daughters survived because there were jewels sewn into their
Speaker 1: corsets and those jewels protected them from bullets. It's a fancy,
Speaker 1: fancy bulletproof vest. I wish jewels could help them out
Speaker 1: in the bullets situation, but sadly, probably not right. Some
Speaker 1: versions of that story that I have seen suggests like
Speaker 1: they were not intended to be clear to stop bullets.
Speaker 1: That was a way to hide the family wealth while
Speaker 1: they were imprisoned, exactly. And it was noted in Anna's
Speaker 1: file that she exhibited some antisocial behavior and that she
Speaker 1: had some unusual scars on her body, and she also
Speaker 1: spoke with a strange accent. While she had initially been
Speaker 1: noncommittal on the matter, or you know, perhaps she was
Speaker 1: waiting for the right time, Anna eventually claimed that she
Speaker 1: was actually Anastasia and the only surviving member of the
Speaker 1: Romanov family. Her story went like this. She had been wounded,
Speaker 1: but she survived the attack, and a guard who was
Speaker 1: sympathetic to the royal family smuggled her out of Russia.
Speaker 1: She did know some little known facts about the royal family,
Speaker 1: but that alone wasn't really enough to convince anyone that
Speaker 1: she was the real thing. The immediate relatives of the
Speaker 1: Romanov family did not believe Anna's story at all, said
Speaker 1: Prince Nicholas Romanov, a cousin of Nicholas the second quote.
Speaker 1: The murder of the Czar and his family was such
Speaker 1: a horrible thing. There was that wish among the people
Speaker 1: that it couldn't be so horribly true. After her stay
Speaker 1: in the hospital, Anna was actually still a hot topic.
Speaker 1: Books were written about her before and against whether or
Speaker 1: not she was a fraud. Lawsuits were filed, although nothing
Speaker 1: ever came from them, and she continued to make her
Speaker 1: claim from all the way until and after many tries,
Speaker 1: she actually was never able to get her claimed royal
Speaker 1: name and lineage recognized by the European courts, which repeatedly
Speaker 1: found that Anna couldn't provide concrete evidence that she was Anastasia.
Speaker 1: But what did happen was that this woman who called
Speaker 1: herself Anna Anderson but pretended to be Anastasia Romanoff unintentionally
Speaker 1: kind of became an important and interesting part of Russian history.
Speaker 1: So let's take another break for a word from our sponsor,
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll figure out if Anna
Speaker 1: really was who she claimed she was. Welcome back to Criminalia. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about one of my favorite subjects, skeletons. Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So around the time the USSR fell in a mass
Speaker 1: grave of what was believed to be the royal family
Speaker 1: was discovered. The remains were sent to a forensics lab
Speaker 1: and all were eventually confirmed to be the Romanoff family,
Speaker 1: but two victims were unaccounted for, anastasia sister Maria and
Speaker 1: her brother Alexei. The remains that both children were eventually
Speaker 1: discovered as well, but that didn't happen until two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. And there's an interesting thing here because his
Speaker 1: earliest ninety seven, a Berlin newspaper ran an investigative report
Speaker 1: on Anna and they actually got it all right, even
Speaker 1: without DNA testing in today's forensic techniques. I totally want
Speaker 1: to meet this journalist, I did right, like somebody was
Speaker 1: super on the ball. So this report revealed that her
Speaker 1: name was Franzisca Shingoska and that she was a Polish
Speaker 1: factory worker and she had been reported missing after she
Speaker 1: had been injured in a factory explosion, and this Berlin
Speaker 1: paper noted that the timeline of her disappearance coincided with
Speaker 1: when Anna relocated and appeared in Berlin. Annado continued to
Speaker 1: refuse all claims suggesting that she was not missing Royal
Speaker 1: She said that she was, and she would quietly remind
Speaker 1: everyone that she was Grand Duchess Alexandra Romanov. Also problematic
Speaker 1: for Anna right at this time was that she had
Speaker 1: an actual brother, Felix, and Felix identified her as his sister.
Speaker 1: In ninety one, after Anna's death, a DNA sample confirmed
Speaker 1: what that newspaper had reported decades earlier, right she was
Speaker 1: definitely not related to the Romanov family. Skeletal remains were
Speaker 1: found in a forest near a Katerinburg and with DNA
Speaker 1: testing it had been confirmed that they matched Nicholas the
Speaker 1: second and his family, and then the bodies of the
Speaker 1: two youngest children were still at this time, As Maria mentioned,
Speaker 1: a moment ago missing. In two thousand and seven, there
Speaker 1: were two sets of remains found nearby the original burial sites,
Speaker 1: again because of DNA testing and confirmed by multiple identification laboratories. Today,
Speaker 1: it is believed that these skeletons that were found in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven are the remains of the two
Speaker 1: missing Romanov children, Maria and Alexei. In the Russian government
Speaker 1: confirmed that Anastasia's bones were among the remains of the
Speaker 1: royal family that had been identified conclusively in After two
Speaker 1: years of research, scientists concluded that Anastasia's body was definitely
Speaker 1: accounted for. This is kind of a bit of a
Speaker 1: modern day side note rabbit hole to go on, but
Speaker 1: it'll be fast. So Queenlizabeth the Second, her husband Prince Philip,
Speaker 1: and all of their descendants are actually related to the Romanos.
Speaker 1: It's all through Queen Victoria, who was Alexandra's grandmother. So
Speaker 1: Queen Victoria and her husband Albert had nine children, and
Speaker 1: they had dozens of grandchildren who married throughout the royal
Speaker 1: houses of Europe, and for that reason, Victoria is sometimes
Speaker 1: called the Grandmother of Europe. And done done, Yeah, Almost
Speaker 1: every royal family has some quick connection back to Victoria
Speaker 1: and Albert. More than one hundred years, give or take
Speaker 1: a year, had passed when the Russian Orthodox Church actually
Speaker 1: reopened the case of the Romano family. Today, all members
Speaker 1: of the immediate family have been identified through DNA evidence,
Speaker 1: But despite the findings, which were based on thirty seven
Speaker 1: different evaluations by forensic, molecular, genetic, and handwriting experts, the
Speaker 1: Church claimed that the scientific investigation had been mishandled and
Speaker 1: they continue to believe that the remains that were found
Speaker 1: are not those of the Romanov family, so then, of
Speaker 1: course we have Anna. With genetic testing, it was determined
Speaker 1: that Anastasia was assassinated along with her family. Annas fraud
Speaker 1: was confirmed solidly when her DNA did not match that
Speaker 1: of the Romanov remains, nor did it match any living
Speaker 1: descendants of the Romanov family. Scientists also compared Anna's DNA
Speaker 1: with that the man named Carl Malcher. She did match
Speaker 1: with Carl, who happened to be a great nephew of
Speaker 1: Francisca Shanoska. It was confirmed that Anna was, in fact
Speaker 1: that missing Polish factory worker named you got It Franzisco. Today,
Speaker 1: historians and scientists agree that Anna and princessca were the
Speaker 1: same person, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to quote him here. I am certain at the end
Speaker 1: of her life she believed in her own story, and
Speaker 1: in a confused way, she forgot her own life, and
Speaker 1: there are those who wished to share her story. People
Speaker 1: look for exceptional events to change the past, but history
Speaker 1: is brutally effective in its solutions and brutally simple. I
Speaker 1: have to say, based on the two quotes we have
Speaker 1: of him here, I think he's an insightful person who
Speaker 1: gets right to the point. He definitely gets right to
Speaker 1: the point. Yes, of course, everyone wants to believe the
Speaker 1: better and more hopeful story, and I understand that, but
Speaker 1: you gotta live in reality, people. He has a point.
Speaker 1: He's like, everybody wants to believe in something that's a
Speaker 1: fairy tale. Yeah, that's less horrific in reality. Yeah, understandable.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty eight, Anna emigrated to the United States,
Speaker 1: and she continued her story about being the Grand Duchess
Speaker 1: her niece while Trashing reportedly said, we quote my Auntie
Speaker 1: was the cleverest of the four children. She wanted to
Speaker 1: come out into the world, wanted to become an actress.
Speaker 1: Something special. Well, Anna was something special, but just not
Speaker 1: something that I would have imagined for. When she was
Speaker 1: in the United States, she married history professor Jack Manahan,
Speaker 1: and Jack was also a firm believer that his wife
Speaker 1: was Grand Duchess Anastasia. He would later describe her as,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to quote him here, probably Charlottesville's best love.
Speaker 1: Eccentric in Anna dite of complications of pneumonia in Charlottesville, Virginia,
Speaker 1: where she was known as Annie Apple, a mad local.
Speaker 1: Anna story continues to be very popular. She has been
Speaker 1: the plot of Broadway shows, Hollywood movies, The Royal Ballet,
Speaker 1: Fox Animation Studios made a film about her, and there
Speaker 1: have been books ranging in nature from very scholarly to
Speaker 1: quite romantic. I like that she ended up with someone
Speaker 1: who loved her so much that he thought that she
Speaker 1: was on stage. Yeah, she she kind of got to
Speaker 1: live out her her belief the way she wished. I
Speaker 1: also love that her community when she was there in
Speaker 1: the eighties referred to her as Annie Apple, a mad local.
Speaker 1: It's sort of sweet. It's as if they knew her history,
Speaker 1: but it really didn't bother them, you know, So before
Speaker 1: we get into the drink. I was reading that in
Speaker 1: nineteen there were mocktail bars popping up in New York
Speaker 1: City and probably other cities around the country only mock tails,
Speaker 1: and and just two years later they're like more than
Speaker 1: a dozen in one city, and they're really just popping up.
Speaker 1: So your recipes could be more and more popular. So
Speaker 1: what do you have for us today? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's interesting for a few reasons, right one, I mean,
Speaker 1: there is a bigger interest in the idea of having
Speaker 1: like yummy librations that are are not alcohol laden. For
Speaker 1: a variety reasons, there are some people who were just
Speaker 1: less interested in drinking. I also wonder how much of
Speaker 1: that is in terms of its growth as an industry,
Speaker 1: is tied at least in some small part to the
Speaker 1: fact that you don't need as many licenses to open
Speaker 1: a mock tail bar. We don't need a liquor license
Speaker 1: to sell juice. So my mock tail this time is
Speaker 1: called the Other Romanov and this comes with its own
Speaker 1: kookie story, so get ready. So, first of all, because
Speaker 1: of the name similarities, I immediately thought of strawberries Romanov
Speaker 1: when I began brainstorming about a drink that might suit
Speaker 1: and a story. Yes, do you know the story of
Speaker 1: Strawberries Romanoff? Though you have told this to me before.
Speaker 1: There's a reason this particular dessert is so deeply appropriate
Speaker 1: to link to this tale because it is normally credited
Speaker 1: in its invention to a restaurateur who went by the
Speaker 1: name Michael Romanov. His real name was Harry F. Gergison.
Speaker 1: That was an anglicized version of his birth name, Herschel
Speaker 1: giggs In, and he claimed to be a member of
Speaker 1: the House of Romanov. But he ran a restaurant in
Speaker 1: California that was very popular for a while, and that's
Speaker 1: where he created, allegedly, strawberries Romanoff. Would you normally see
Speaker 1: with two f's on the end instead of the V,
Speaker 1: but they're sometimes interchangeable. So I thought it would be
Speaker 1: fun if we came up with a drinkable version of
Speaker 1: strawberries Romanoff. If you haven't ever had it, it's basically
Speaker 1: like fresh cut strawberries in a beautiful crystal dish, often
Speaker 1: with like a cream sauce that's sweet and has kind
Speaker 1: of some nice layering of flavors to it. So this
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a build your own adventure
Speaker 1: drink because you want to alter some things to suit. Probably,
Speaker 1: so it starts with two pints of strawberries, though, and
Speaker 1: you want to, of course, you know, cut off the stems.
Speaker 1: If you have a good blender, you don't really have
Speaker 1: to do much more than that. You don't need to
Speaker 1: chop them up or anything, just toss him in. And
Speaker 1: then you need something to create that creamy element. I
Speaker 1: have seen many different a piece for just literally making
Speaker 1: strawberries roman off when you're not blending it into a drink.
Speaker 1: But so you can use something like vanilla ice cream
Speaker 1: or heavy cream here. But here's the thing, I actually
Speaker 1: prefer sour cream for this. Like a half cup of
Speaker 1: sour cream is perfect because it gives this this richness
Speaker 1: and like it's a little cheesecakey when you sip it,
Speaker 1: which is very nice. And then you're going to use
Speaker 1: two to three table spoons of the sweetener of your choice.
Speaker 1: Some people like confection or sugar, some people like regular
Speaker 1: granulated sugar. I like brown sugar because again it adds
Speaker 1: a nice layer of flavor. I also add a teaspoon
Speaker 1: of fresh orange zest. Just zest the skin of your
Speaker 1: orange with your your fine greater over that blender. Throw
Speaker 1: this all in a blender, blended, blended, blended, and then
Speaker 1: take a peek at it, see what its consistency is like.
Speaker 1: And add a milk I like oat milk for this one,
Speaker 1: until it's liquid e and smooth enough that you're pretty
Speaker 1: confident you can sip it through a straw without it
Speaker 1: being an effort that is uncomfortable. It is so stink
Speaker 1: and delicious, and it is quite filling and heavy. It's
Speaker 1: basically like a really rich smoothie and it's little Now
Speaker 1: is the strawberries rumman off of I'm remembering correctly. About
Speaker 1: the alcohol that usually is involved in it, is that
Speaker 1: a brandy that goes into the sauce sometimes? Yeah, some
Speaker 1: people also use Grand Marnier, which is why I put
Speaker 1: that orange zest in because that has an orange flavor
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, totally, But yeah, I love this with
Speaker 1: a little bit of brandy in it. It seems like
Speaker 1: it would be a good summer drink because it is
Speaker 1: sort of sweet and cold. However, I think it is
Speaker 1: too heavy for that. Like, I would not go outside
Speaker 1: and sip this casually because you'll just feel like I
Speaker 1: felt very much like I would just like to sit
Speaker 1: quietly in a corner and burt for a while, like
Speaker 1: it's a heavy, heavy beverage, but so yummy. It's a
Speaker 1: dessert for sure. Sitting on the porch, just sip and
Speaker 1: so straw. It's not a summer drink, no, but oh delicious.
Speaker 1: I bet that is delicious. It's like the yummiest way
Speaker 1: to make a smoothie ever. And I just I love
Speaker 1: taking advantage of fresh fruit anyway, and it makes it
Speaker 1: fun for mocas. So you would like a very dessert
Speaker 1: e mocktail, this is the one for you. UH want
Speaker 1: to once again thank you for spending this time with
Speaker 1: us while we talk about the many romanofs, both impostors
Speaker 1: real and the ones that just wanted to make up
Speaker 1: recipes and kind of claim they were near the Romanov family.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back here again next week with another
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