MOSCOW, December 23 – RIA Novosti. The first results of studies of the remains of the Romanov family, scientists plan to receive in January 2016, said on Wednesday the press service of the Cabinet of the Russian Federation.
” Currently, the criminal case the International Centre for Genetic epigenetic research of the Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences to conduct a comparative study of the remains of Emperor Alexander III and the remains of Emperor Nicholas II. The first results of these studies, the researchers plan to obtain in January 2016 “, – said in a statement.
The last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family were executed in the summer of 1918 in Yekaterinburg. The remains of almost all the victims were found in July 1991 and the summer of 1998, buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral of St. Petersburg. In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II and his family as a saint. In 2007, the remains were found younger children Emperor ─ Duchess Maria and Tsarevich Alexei, which today are kept in the State Archive of the Russian Federation.
In the fall of 2015, investigators resumed the investigation into the deaths of members of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, instituted in 1993 in connection with the discovery of a group of burial in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg. At the end of September it was carried out the exhumation of the remains of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna. There were also traces of blood samples taken from the clothes of the Emperor Alexander II.
In October, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill addressed the government with a request to carry out a comparative genetic studies of the remains of Nicholas II and his father ─ Emperor Alexander III. According to the ROC, the positive results of such examination will be the indisputable proof of the authenticity of the remains of Nicholas II and his family.
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