24/09/2023
Russia Exhumes Murdered Tsar
They want to be sure. The remains of Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra — executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in 1918 — have been dug up to aid an investigation into their murders and confirm their identities. Earlier genetic tests proved they were the Romanovs, but the Orthodox Church still has doubts. So investigators will test samples from the bloody uniform of the tsar’s grandfather, which will hopefully culminate in Nicholas, buried with three of his five children, being reunited with the remains of the other two.
Robert McAngus
