14 DAY TRIAL // The final hopes of a survivor of the last Russian Czar that the people may have had in Russia have been recently ruined, as authorities have announced that the remains of the last two heirs of Czar Nicholas II have been identified via forensic pieces of evidence. In order to make sure that the find is correct, Russian officials have worked together with several laboratories in their own country, as well as with some in the UK and the US. The evidence has been indisputable, and so it's now official that none of the ruler's five children escaped the execution.
Over the past decades, numerous voices in Russia have always claimed that at least one or two of the five offspring that Czar Nicholas II had with his wife, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, escaped the mass-prosecutions that the Bolsheviks staged. The couple had four daughters together, namely Olga, born in 1895, Tatiana, in 1897, Maria, in 1899 and Anastasia, in 1901. Finally, in 1905, the Czarina gave birth to the first male descendant, Prince Alexei, who was unfortunately born with hemophilia, a rare disease that doesn't allow for blood to coagulate.
As history later proved, the entire family was executed at Lenin's orders, and the victims included the royal couple and their children, as well as a number of their devoted servants, including their chef. The state propaganda placed the responsibility of their deaths in the hands of a local Soviet ruler from the Urals, but diaries belonging to important officials proved that the central command had, indeed, ordered their deaths.
The issue that was posed after the official announcements was whether all the members of the family had been killed, or if maybe one or two of them had survived. According to a forensics report, which appeared in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week, the new grave, discovered only a few meters away from the first one, contains the remains of Prince Alexei and Princess Maria. Despite the distance, the two tombs have been found 90 years apart.
In order to figure out the descent enigma that the bodies posed, MIT molecular geneticist Evgeny Rogaev has used mitochondrial DNA samples from the two children, and has cross-referenced them with those from their mother, whose corpse was unearthed a while back. He has found perfect similarities and has concluded that, regretfully, all of the Czar's family were, indeed, killed in 1918, as feared.
