As of February 2008, the Romanov case was stamped with an official “case closed” label and filed on a shelf to collect dust. However, an article released by the RIA Novosti; Russian news and information agency, has announced that additional excavations are planned for next year.
The Romanov’s are more famously remembered as the Tsar of Russia and his family. After the Rebellion in 1918, Tsar Nicholas and his family, along with a few servants and the family doctor were killed by the Bolsheviks. The bodies were then stripped and discarded into a grave, dosed in sulphuric acid and buried. Another two bodies were located in a grave near the main burial.
Recent DNA testing of the Tsar and Tsarina’s living relatives has confirmed the identities of those found in the main grave as being the Romanov’s (excluding two of the five children) and their servants. The two bodies in the second grave were identified as Maria and Alexi, the two children missing from the main grave.
There isn’t anything funny about this story; I’m just very interested in this case.
And I’m more than a little bit happy that archaeology was able to say “AAHA! In your face Disney and other silly people who suggested that Anastasia escaped! You are INCORRECT!”…or something like that…
For more info on this amazing story check out the article by Peter Gill (et. al) 1999 – Identification of the Romanov family by DNA analysis - you can find it in the Nature Genetics journal, or at http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081027/117976408.html
The Romanov’s are more famously remembered as the Tsar of Russia and his family. After the Rebellion in 1918, Tsar Nicholas and his family, along with a few servants and the family doctor were killed by the Bolsheviks. The bodies were then stripped and discarded into a grave, dosed in sulphuric acid and buried. Another two bodies were located in a grave near the main burial.
Recent DNA testing of the Tsar and Tsarina’s living relatives has confirmed the identities of those found in the main grave as being the Romanov’s (excluding two of the five children) and their servants. The two bodies in the second grave were identified as Maria and Alexi, the two children missing from the main grave.
There isn’t anything funny about this story; I’m just very interested in this case.
And I’m more than a little bit happy that archaeology was able to say “AAHA! In your face Disney and other silly people who suggested that Anastasia escaped! You are INCORRECT!”…or something like that…
For more info on this amazing story check out the article by Peter Gill (et. al) 1999 – Identification of the Romanov family by DNA analysis - you can find it in the Nature Genetics journal, or at http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081027/117976408.html
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