Church takes custody of Tsarevich Alexeу, Grand Duchess Maria Romanovs' alleged remains - Russian government

Source: Interfax-Religion

Moscow, December 23, 2015

    

It has been decided that the alleged remains of Tsarevich Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria Romanovs be handed over by the Russian State Archive into the protective custody of the Russian Orthodox Church, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.

"The inter-agency working group on issues relating to the inquiry and burial of the alleged remains of Tsarevich Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, which are kept at the Russian Federation State Archive, jointly with the Russian Orthodox Church has decided to pass the alleged remains of Tsarevich Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria Romanovs into the protective custody of the Russian Orthodox Church before the end of the inquiries conducted as part of the criminal case N252/404516-15 of the assassination of members of the Russian Imperial House in the Urals and in Petrograd in 1918-1919," the spokesperson said in a statement obtained by Interfax.

"At present, the International Center for Genetic-Epigenetic Studies of the Institute of Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is conducting comparative analyses of the remains of the Emperor Alexander III and those of the Emperor Nicholas II as part of the criminal inquiry. The initial results of these analyses are expected in January 2016," the spokesperson said.

Interfax-Religion

12/24/2015

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Comments
Nancy E. Sawyer6/8/2019 9:51 pm
It seems it is not a certainty that the bones of Maria & her brother Alexei are indeed identified!!
Troy John Heffernan12/27/2015 8:30 am
I thought that they did this type of testing several years ago; so I thought.
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