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April 20, 2008 Remains of a complete imperial family
Categories: First World War , Calendar , Nálezy nejenom s detektorem kovů v Rusku
Thirteen years ago, scientists announced that the remains of the last tsarist family, whose members had been murdered in cold blood, had been found. Experts examined the bones found in the Urals. DNA tests confirmed that they belonged to Tsarevich Alexei, the son of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. and heirs to the Russian throne, and his sister Maria.
DNA tests have been studied by a genetic laboratory in the United States, specifically by an expert team from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. "Now we have really found the whole imperial family," said Eduard Rossel, governor of the Sverdlovsk region.
The remains of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and three daughters have already been found in the mass grave. Their remains were stored in the Peter and Paul Fortress. But the bodies of Alexei and Mary were not in the tomb. It has even been speculated that they were burned and the ashes sprayed somewhere in the woods. Some even claimed to have survived the massacre. Occasionally, scammers appear to impersonate family members.
The so-called Yekaterinburg Massacre took place around midnight on July 16-17, 1918. The commander of the special-purpose house, Yakov Jurovsky, ordered Romanov physicians, Dr. Eugene Botkin, to wake the sleeping family and ask them to dress under the pretext impending chaos in Ekaterinburg. The Romanovs were transferred to a 6x5 meter cellar room and the prisoners were then told to wait there until a truck was delivered to the house.
A few minutes later, however, an execution squad of the secret police entered the room, and Jurovsky read aloud the order of the executive committee: "Nikolai (Russian form of the name Nicholas) Alexandrovich, as your relatives continue to attack Soviet Russia, the Urals Executive Committee execute you. "
Some members of the imperial family were shot by the executioners, the rest of the survivors were stabbed with a bayonet so that the shots could not be heard outside…
The remains of Alexei and Mary were found by Russian archaeologists near Ekaterinburg. Right near the place where the imperial family was murdered. Traces of shooting are visible on the skeletons found. They were charred and someone used aggressive chemicals on them. The General Prosecutor's Office even resumed the investigation into the circumstances of the death of Tsar Nicholas II.
Sources: Karel Renc: The Stormy Years 1912-1918, www.thestar.com, www.nzherald.co. Photo: www.wikipedia.org
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