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Gleb Yevgenyevich Botkin ((ロシア語:Глеб Евге́ньевич Бо́ткин); 30 July 1900 – 15 December 1969) was the son of Dr. Yevgeny Botkin, the court physician who was murdered at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks with Tsar Nicholas II and his family on 17 July 1918. In later years, Botkin became a lifelong advocate of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the surviving Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. DNA results later proved that she was an impostor called Franziska Schanzkowska. In 1938 he founded his own neopagan church, The Church of Aphrodite, which was one of the earliest churches in the neopagan movement in the United States. ==Early life== He was the youngest son of Yevgeny Botkin and his wife, Olga. His parents divorced in 1910, when Botkin was a child of 10, due to his father’s demanding position at court and his mother’s affair with his German tutor, Friedrich Lichinger, whom she later married. Yevgeny Botkin retained custody of the children following the divorce.〔Zeepvat, Charlotte, ''Romanov Autumn,'' Sutton Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2337-7〕 His older brother Dmitry was killed in action during World War I.〔Kinrimitg, Greg, and Wilson, Penny, ''The Fate of the Romanovs,'' John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2003, p. 66〕 As a child, he and his sister Tatiana played with the children of Nicholas II during holidays. He used to amuse the grand duchesses on holidays and when they were all in exile at Tobolsk with caricatures of pigs dressed in human clothing acting like stuffy dignitaries at court.〔Peter Kurth, ''Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson,'' Back Bay Books, 1983, p. 200〕 Botkin was described by one historian as "articulate, sensitive, with pallid skin and soulful green eyes" and as "a talented artist, a wicked satirist, and a born crusader."〔Kurth, p. 200〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gleb Botkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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