History WesternAnimation / Anastasia

* IronicEcho: "Do svidaniya!" [[spoiler:Said first by Rasputin as he's about to kill Anya, then repeated by her when she's breaking his reliquary.]]

* BreakUpMakeUpScenario

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Sadly, Anastasia herself - it was finally confirmed in 2008 that the real Anastasia did in fact die with the rest of her family that night.

-->'''Anastasia:''' Dasvidaniya!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A subtle example. During the song "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart" There is a shot of Sigmund Freud slipping on a banana peel when a woman lifts up her skirt.

* OminousPipeOrgan: Heard before the beginning and during the final melody of Rasputin's VillainSong.

* OminousPipeOrgan: Heard during Rasputin's VillainSong.

* NeverWakeASleepwalker: ''Defied''. When Pooka warns Dmitri that a sleepwalking Anastasia has walked up to the deck, he rescues her just as Rasputin's nightmare compels her to jump into the ocean. As soon as he gets Anastasia on solid wood, he wakes her up. Dmitri is horrified that a nightmare nearly drove her to drown, and gives her a CooldownHug.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: The Romanovs in life easily fell for Rasputin's coy ways and SnakeOilSalesman policy because he was able to stop Alexei's bleeding. Here, Marie explicitly calls him "a fraud, power-mad and dangerous". Nicholas apparently banished him for an unknown slight.

* LostOrphanedRoyalty: Revealed to have survived the curse meant to "[[RulingFamilyMassacre end the Romanov line forever]]".

* FreudianExcuse: Adult Dimitri is a manipulative con man planning to trick a heartbroken old woman into believing a random girl is her beloved grand daughter and run off with the reward money. But given what he must have lived through under the oppressive government since the revolution and that he's been living in near-poverty his whole life, you can't help but sympathize with him wanting to find a way out. (And there's the question of exactly how well he was treated as a 10 year old kitchen boy at the Romanov palace, especially after defying the revolutionaries). The movie also builds sympathy by showing he was much less self-serving as a child and risked his life to save Anastasia, and you see more of his past self coming through during the story.

* GratuitousPrincess: The real Anastasia was recognised as "Grand Duchess", but is more often referred to as a "Princess"[[note]]a roughly equivalent title in most monarchies, as the daughter of the ruler[[/note]] in the West. Thus the movie uses the terms "Grand Duchess" and "Princess" interchangeably, although in a Russian context 'princess' is a noble, not royal, title. It's even {{Lampshaded}} when Anya says, "If I don't remember who I am, then who's to say I'm not a princess or a duchess or a whatever she is, right?"

* HypnotizeThePrincess: [[spoiler:Rasputin uses magic to make Anya sleepwalk off the side of the ship she's on in a storm. Dimitri fortunately stops her and wakes her up before she can jump.]]

%%* StandardFemaleGrabArea: {{Defied}}. When Dimitri grabs Anya's arm [[spoiler:after she's realized what his intentions were and is trying to storm out, she takes one look at his hand, and then raises her other hand and slaps him.]]

-->"Journey to the Past"

** Rasputin, already seemingly undead, comes to the Royal Palace on December 31, 1916, and vows vengeance on the Imperial Family. Makes sense, since in real life he was murdered the previous day, by the Emperor's (distant) relative no less.

* ShownTheirWork: Rasputin, already seemingly undead, comes to the Royal Palace on December 31, 1916, and swears vengeance on the Imperial Family. Makes sense, since in real life he was murdered the previous day, by the Emperor's (distant) relative no less.

* DubNameChange: Bartok the bat is renamed as "Bartek" in the Hungarian dub, to avoid any association with Hungarian composer Music/BelaBartok.

* ParentalFavouritism: Or rather, Grandparental Favourtism as Anya seems to be the Empress's favourite grandchild, which makes it all the more heartwarming when they reunite.

Creator/DonBluth's 1997 [[{{Disneyfication}} very loose adaptation]] of [[{{Film/Anastasia}} a 1956 film]], which itself was already [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very, very loosely based]] on [[DidAnastasiaSurvive the 'life' of the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]].

* KarmaHoudini: Vlad had zero problems with helping Dimitri scam the Duchess out of her money and, unlike Dimitri who goes through a ChangeOfHeart borderline HeelFaceTurn and at least gets a beating from Rasputin's magical minions near the end, never suffers any kind of repercussions or learns a lesson. If anything, [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop his life only improves after setting out on such a cruel scheme!]]