This file photo of January 1, 1915 shows Russia's Tsar Nicholas II and his family, Crown Prince Alexei and Tsarine Alexandra, center.
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Investigators Confirmed Identity of Crown Prince Alexei Remains
The Investigating Committee of the RF Prosecutor General Office has confirmed that the bones found past summer at Staraya Koptyakovskaya road near Ekaterinburg belong to Crown Prince Alexei and Princess Maria, the missing children of Russia’s last Tsar Nicholas II. Most of the DNA tests have been completed, the investigators said.
Crown Prince Alexei and his sister Maria were shot dead together with the Tsar and the family in Ipatiev house, the Ural city of Ekaterinburg, in July of 1918.
The remains of the royal family were found at Staraya Koptyakovskaya road in July of 1991 and buried in the imperial crypt at St Peter and Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg in 1998. But the bones of Alexei and Maria weren’t amid them.
In July 2007, the second burial place was discovered near the first pit, and the archeologists said those were remains of the crown prince and the princes.
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