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05 December 2008, 11:39Emperor Nicholas II remains found near Yekaterinburg are authentic - U.S. experts
Yekaterinburg, December 5, Interfax - U.S. experts are certain that it was the 'first' burial site near Yekaterinburg where the authentic remains of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia were found, said Dr. Michael Coble, the research director at the U.S. Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.
The laboratory examined three types of DNA and compared them to the DNA of Prince Alexey, the son of Nicholas II, and Andrei Romanov, a cousin of Nicholas II, and the examination of all three results dispels all doubts, Coble told journalists in Yekaterinburg.
Eleven family members of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his fellows were executed in the early hours of July 17, 1918 at the order of the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet.
A burial site in which there were remains of nine people was found on Staraya Koptyakovskaya road near Yekaterinburg in July 1991. Those were the remains of Nicholas II, his spouse Alexandra Fyodorovna, 46, daughters Olga, 22, Tatyana, 21, Anastasia, 17, as well as his fellows Yevgeny Botkin, 53, Anna Demidova, 40, Alois Trupp, 62, and Ivan Kharitonov, 48.
Years after, fragments of bones and teeth were recovered from the so-called 'second' burial site during archeological exploration on July 29, 2007. Russian and international experts confirmed that what was found there are the remains of Prince Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria.
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