Chief Forensic Expert of Ural Federal District Nikolay Nevolin, left, and Senior Investigator Vladimir Soloviev attend the press conference dedicated to the examination of remains discovered near Koptyakovskaya road in July of 2007.
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Genetic Examination: Remains of Nicholas II Children Are Genuine
The genetic examination in the Untied States has confirmed authenticity of the remains found near the Koptyakovskaya road in the Sverdlov region in summer of 2007. The remains were identified as belonging to two children of Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexis and Great Duchess Maria, Governor Eduard Rossel announced Wednesday.
“The main genetic laboratory of the United States has completed its work (remains identification) – total confirmation,” RIA Novosti quoted Rossel as saying during the news conference in Ekaterinburg.
The bones discovered July 29, 2007 and presumably belonging to Tsarevich Alexis and Great Duchess Maria are being examined both by Russia’s scientists and overseas. The first stage of scientific analysis proved that the remains were the bones of a boy of 12 years to 14 years and a girl of 16 years to 18 years.
Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II was executed in Ekaterinburg July 17, 1918, along with his family and servants. Local prosecutors received the first application about the remains’ discovery in early 1991 and the criminal action was opened in 1993.
Based on three genetic examinations held in Britain (1993), the United States (1995) and Russia (1997), the special commission concluded that the found remains belonged to nine members of Nicholas II family. It was decided to bury the bones in the former imperial capital, St. Petersburg, in the Saint Catherine Cathedral inside the Peter and Paul Fortress, which had been the resting place for the Romanovs since Peter the Great.
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