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What happened to the bodies of the tsar and his family?
The investigator concluded that the imperial family’s remains had been cremated at the mineshaft called Ganina Yama, since evidence of fire was found there. In 1979 and 2007, the remains of the bodies were found in two unmarked graves in a field called Porosenkov Log.
Who was found in the pit of the Romanov family?
The remains of Nicholas, Alexandra and three of their daughters— Anastasia, Olga and Tatiana—were found in 1979, though the bodies were only exhumed in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to the AFP.
Did the other male skeletal remains belong to members of the royal family?
Because the mtDNA of Prince Philip matched that of the princesses and the Tsarina we know the skeletal remains of #3, 5, 6, and 7 belong to the Tsarina’s family.
Were all the Romanovs found?
Russia: Forest bones confirmed to be last tsar of Russia and the Romanov family. After decades of mystery, the Russian Investigative Committee has concluded that they have found the bones and remains of Nicholas II and his family.
Which two people are missing from the mass grave Romanov mystery?
Combined with additional DNA testing of material from the 1991 grave, we have virtually irrefutable evidence that the two individuals recovered from the 2007 grave are the two missing children of the Romanov family: the Tsarevich Alexei and one of his sisters.
Were all the Romanovs killed?
July 17, 1918, Ipatiev House, Russia
Nicholas II of Russia/Assassinated
How did the Romanov family find their bodies?
Remains of Romanov family members are not discovered for 61 years, but it takes until 2007 for Alexei and Maria’s bodies to be located In the 1970s, a geologist named Alexander Avdonin, who had heard rumors about the site of the Romanovs’ grave his entire life, began asking others for information about its location.
Where are Mikhail Romanov and Nicholas Johnson buried?
Excavations are underway in Russia to find the graves of ‘tsar for a day’ Mikhail (Michael) Romanov and his ‘faithful British servant’. One century after they were shot dead by Bolshevik executioners, a major effort is being made to find the missing royal and his secretary Nicholas Johnson.
Who are the missing children of the Romanov family?
But two of the children’s remains were missing: Maria and Alexei. Rumors about their possible survival swirled until 2007, when Sergei Plotnikov, a builder who was part of a club that looked for the missing Romanovs on the weekends came across bone fragments.
Who was executed with the Romanov family in 1918?
The Russian Imperial Romanov family ( Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.