The Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia conducted 40 new examinations in the framework of the criminal case on the murder of the Romanov royal family, which was resumed in 2015. This was announced on February 20 to Rossiyskaya Gazeta by Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the RF IC.
The investigation into this case began in 1993, when a group burial was discovered in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg. Then the investigators came to the conclusion that the remains belong to members of the Russian Imperial House of the Romanovs, as well as persons from their retinue. Later, the criminal case was terminated due to the death of the perpetrators.
As Bastrykin noted, some researchers are still arguing about the identity of the discovered remains. In this regard, the ICR considered it necessary to continue the investigation in order to eliminate “possible gaps”.
“Over the past years, science has taken a very serious step forward, opening up new opportunities, including in genetics. For six years, 40 forensic examinations have been carried out on the renewed criminal case, including complex and commission forensic (anthropological), molecular genetic, historical and archival and others. For the first time, the investigation investigated materials located in closed archival funds, ”the head of the department said.
In particular, a genetic study was carried out on the remains of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and samples from the tomb of Emperor Alexander III in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, found near Yekaterinburg in the area of the Old Koptyakovskaya Road. It was found that the probability of their relationship as a son and father is 99.99%.
“Thus, the investigation concluded that the remains discovered in 1991 and 2007 belong respectively to Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their four daughters and Tsarevich Alexei. At the same time, the examinations established the probability of relationship between them at 99 percent and a few more digits 9 after the decimal point, ”added Bastrykin.
He confirmed that the emperor’s relatives had also been identified. The genetic characteristics of all 11 people were established, while seven of them are from one family (a man, five women and a teenage boy). The remaining four are persons who are not related by blood either to the family or to each other.
In October 2020, a letter from Lord Louis Mountbatten was published in the UK, in which he refuted the conspiracy theory that the daughter of Emperor Nicholas II Anastasia could survive after the execution of the royal family. Mountbatten was the nephew of the wife of the Russian Emperor Alexandra Feodorovna and the uncle of Prince Philip, wife of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.
In his letter, he emphasized that there could be no doubt about the death of the Grand Duchess along with the rest of the family. At the same time, the lord pointed out that the girl’s death did not come immediately – she was killed with bayonets.
Source: IZ
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