Do you believe in fairytale? Today we’ll tell you one about Russian girl who learns she’s an African princess!

It’s the stuff of fairytales and fantasies. Shakespeare dabbled with it too. An abandoned orphan girl discovers she’s a princess after all. But for one girl from a remote Russian village, fact became stranger than fiction.

The everyday routine of 16-year-old Anya Bazanova in the village of Kon-Kolodez near the Ukrainian border does not differ much from that of other villagers: taking care of domestic animals, doing garden work. It’s only that dark-skinned and curly-haired Anya does not look very much like her neighbors. Now it’s turned out she is not a mere mortal but has Royal blood running in her veins.

Life hasn’t been a bed of roses for the girl. Born to a Russian mother and African father, she was abandoned by both when she was six months old. Her father, a prince from Guinea-Bissau in southern Africa, returned to his homeland and her mother fell mentally ill.

Her father recently got in contact and now says he wants Anya to come and live with him when she turns 18. (Read more from Russia Todaday)