Anna Orelov

Anna Orelov was the wife of the Russian Assassin Nikolai Orelov and the mother of Nadya and Innokenti Orelov. She is also the great-grandmother of Daniel Cross.

Biography[]

Anna married Nikolai at some point before 1888, and was fully aware of her husband's Assassin background. As such, she would seek to calm him when Nikolai felt guilt over the death of his friend and fellow Assassin, Aleksandr Ulyanov.^[1]

By October 1888, Anna was several months pregnant with her and Nikolai's first child.^[1] However, the baby died before birth; a grievous blow to the Orelov family, which caused Nikolai to become bitter and filled with hate.^[2] By 1917, Anna had given birth to Nikolai's first surviving child, a daughter they named Nadya, and the two were present with Nikolai when he exhumed the body of Grigori Rasputin to retrieve a shard of the destroyed Imperial Sceptre.^[3]

In 1918, Anna, Nikolai, and Nadya fled Russia to escape the chaos of the Revolution. They boarded a boat bound for the United States, where they started a new life together.^[3] Some time later, Anna gave birth to a son, whom she and Nikolai named Innokenti.^[4]

During the Palmer Raids of 1919, while Anna and her family were in a bar, federal officers arrived and began to round up Russian immigrants. In the ensuing chaos, Anna and Nadya were separated from Nikolai and Innokenti, and were deported back to Russia. The Assassin Brotherhood later claimed that they had ensured Anna's and Nadya's safe arrival in Russia, to protect "their own".^[4]