From History's Chronicles

It is not only the lives of certain ones that illuminate as a comet- history's firmament, but also the circumstances surrounding the deaths of a few.. Or rather the tales, the rumors and near-legends regarding those deaths... It is not so much a stab at the accuracy of chronicles, a rewrite of history, but speculation- the mind's fanciful imaginings (all quite natural.) Or is it the human hope for survival? with the survivor as hero ( however tragic) and a fate more intriguing than an untimely death... Consider Anastasia- beautiful young Romanov said to have survived her family's execution... And then, her supposed appearance in Germany, a young girl, traumatized, confused but with an uncanny resemblance. Even scars are identical, according to a maid's testimony... but this was all disproved once and for all through DNA evidence- and the fascinating story detailed on T.V.'s " Unsolved Mysteries." And Petofi, lesser known though close to my own heart... He, the Hungarian poet-patriot who, according to a recent YouTube documentary survived that fateful cornfield, that year, 1848... who was wounded, fell into Russian captivity, only to die later circumstances vague, stories conflicting... The video consists of both skeptics and believers, giving their views... And despite the dedicated researchers, the claims and strong convictions I just don't know what to believe, still, I tend to stick with history's " old" version- the one I learned long ago, but all the time keep a mind very open.