Burned bones unearthed in July in a field near Yekaterinburg, Russia, have been identified by forensics experts as the remains of Alexei and Maria, children of Czar Nicholas II.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
From: National Review
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Date: 12/17/2007
Burned bones unearthed in July in a field near Yekaterinburg, Russia, have been identified by forensics experts as the remains of Alexei and Maria, children of Czar Nicholas II. All eleven members of the former imperial family and its staff, murdered by the Bolsheviks 90 years ago, have now been accounted for (the remains of the other nine were found in a mineshaft in 1991). In The Russian Revolution, historian Richard Pipes wrote that eleven is a small number compared with the ...
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