Forensics Authenticity Of Romanov Imperial Family, Investigation Will Continue

MOSCOW ~ Forensic studies point to authenticity of the remains of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, research will continue, according to spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin.

“Research again indicates authenticity of the ‘Yekaterinburg remains,” he said.

Earlier this autumn, the Investigative Committee resumed criminal proceedings into the slaying of members of the Romanov Imperial Family that was initially instituted in 1993 after the finding of a collective burial site near Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk) in the Urals, which contained the bones supposedly of Nicholas II, his spouse Empress Alexandra and their children.

The remains of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra were exhumed from their tombs in the Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul in St Petersburg at the end of September. In addition to that, samples of blood traces were taken from the clothes of Emperor Alexander II that he was wearing during the assassination on March 1, 1881.

The Russian Orthodox Church believes positive findings of these forensic studies will provide an incontestable proof of the genuineness of remains of the slain last Russian Czar and his family.