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posted by mrpg on Thursday July 19 2018, @10:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

DW:

New DNA tests on bones of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, and his family confirm they are authentic. Researchers exhumed Nicholas's father Alexander III — himself assassinated in 1881 — to prove "they are father and son."

The test results could lead to the Russian Orthodox Church recognizing the remains for a full burial. It said it would consider the findings and commended the progress of the investigation.

Nicholas II, his German-born wife and their five children were shot by Bolsheviks as a consequence of the October Revolution of 1917. The bodies of the last members of the Romanov dynasty were thrown into a mineshaft, before being burned and hurriedly buried by the killers. They were first tracked down by amateur historians in 1979, although the discovery was only revealed in 1991. The Russian Orthodox Church had recognized the ex-tsar as a martyred saint in 1981.

[Ed. note: Anastasia's supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, False reports of survival]


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday July 19 2018, @06:13PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday July 19 2018, @06:13PM (#709547)

    I am, for once, ready to actually believe Trump, if he says there was no collusion with Putin against the Romanov family.

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