Leonid Vokhmyakov, a searcher from the military-patriotic club Mountain Shield, at the spot where the presumed remains of Crown Prince Alexey and Princess Maria, children of Emperor Nicholas II, were found in Ekaterinburg
Photo: Konstantin Vorobiev
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Last Tsar Still Not Repression Victim
The Prosecutor General's Office has once again declined to declare Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his wife and five children victims of political repression, citing the absence of “official decisions by juridical or non-juridical organs on the application of politically-motivated repression to the deceased.” The case on the political rehabilitation of the tsar, which is being pressed by his descendants, will now go to the Russian Supreme Court.
This is the second attempt by the imperial house, which is now centered in Madrid, to have the emperor and his family, who were shot to death by the Bolsheviks in 1918, rehabilitated. Great princess Maria Vladimirovna first applied to the Prosecutor General's Office for their rehabilitation in December 2005. That application was rejected two months later, motivated by the claim that the royals were not victims of repression, but of simple criminal murder. In November 2006, the Moscow Municipal Court threw out the prosecutor's decision and ordered the office to reconsider the application. The Tversky Court upheld the Municipal Court's decision in May of this year.
The Supreme Court will now have the last word in the case. Prominent lawyer Pavel Astakhov commented that “Rehabilitation is the restoration of rights, including property rights. Obviously, those who make the decision on rehabilitation are concerned that property right claims will be made.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 27, 2007
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