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08-25-2007, 08:15 AM
Two days ago, a startling discovery was made a few miles outside the Russian town of Ekaterinberg, site of the brutal execution of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov, his family, and several servants. For decades, researchers and historians have wondered about the fate of the young hemophiliac Alexei, heir to the vast Russian Empire and its untold riches. When the initial discovery was made of the Tsar's family, in the early 1990's, Alexei's bones were missing, along with a sister's, most likely Anastasia, or possibly Marie Romanov.
On Aug 23, 2007, this discovery was made:
2007 bones found
On August 23, 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two burned, partial skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg that appeared to match the site described in Yurovsky's memoirs. The archaeologists said the bones are from a boy who was roughly between the ages of ten and thirteen years at the time of his death and of a young woman who was roughly between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three years old. Anastasia was seventeen years, one month old at the time of the assassination, while Maria was nineteen years, one month old. Alexei was two weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday. Alexei's elder sisters Olga and Tatiana were twenty-two and twenty-one years old at the time of the assassination. Along with the remains of the two bodies, archaeologists found "shards of a container of sulfuric acid, nails, metal strips from a wooden box, and bullets of various caliber." The bones were found using metal detectors and metal rods as probes. Tests are still being conducted on the remains to determine whether they are indeed those of the two missing Romanov children.[18]
note--the Yurovsky mentioned in the above was one of the gunmen who shot the family, and he later wrote of this event in his memoirs. Also it should be noted that at least 2 men /young boys, over the years, have claimed to be the Tsarevech.
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3011/180pxtsesarevichalexisww6.jpg
On Aug 23, 2007, this discovery was made:
2007 bones found
On August 23, 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two burned, partial skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg that appeared to match the site described in Yurovsky's memoirs. The archaeologists said the bones are from a boy who was roughly between the ages of ten and thirteen years at the time of his death and of a young woman who was roughly between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three years old. Anastasia was seventeen years, one month old at the time of the assassination, while Maria was nineteen years, one month old. Alexei was two weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday. Alexei's elder sisters Olga and Tatiana were twenty-two and twenty-one years old at the time of the assassination. Along with the remains of the two bodies, archaeologists found "shards of a container of sulfuric acid, nails, metal strips from a wooden box, and bullets of various caliber." The bones were found using metal detectors and metal rods as probes. Tests are still being conducted on the remains to determine whether they are indeed those of the two missing Romanov children.[18]
note--the Yurovsky mentioned in the above was one of the gunmen who shot the family, and he later wrote of this event in his memoirs. Also it should be noted that at least 2 men /young boys, over the years, have claimed to be the Tsarevech.
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3011/180pxtsesarevichalexisww6.jpg