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In 1968, he married Anna Anderson, the German woman 18 years his senior who for decades fought in European courts to prove that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia. She died in 1984.

John Eacott Manahan, 70, a former University of Virginia history professor who tried to prove for years that his wife was the youngest daughter of Russia's Czar Nicholas II, died March 22 at a nursing home in Charlottesville. The cause of death was not reported.

Manahan was a well-known figure around Charlottesville and was considered an expert on genealogy. He was the husband of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Russian Empire. Anderson died in 1984.

Dr. Manahan had taught at the University of Virginia and its extension division from 1948 to 1955. He also had taught at Radford College, the University of Maryland and the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

Son of John Levi Manahan (1887-1966) and Lucile Becker Manahan (1894-1963).