The Russian government has announced that it will exhume the remains of Tsar Alexander III in an attempt to resolve a dispute over the identity of remains that are thought to belong to Nicholas II’s children Alexei and Maria. The Russian royal family was shot by Bolsheviks in 1918 and their bodies were thrown into a mine-shaft and then burnt and buried in the city of Yekaterinburg. The remains of the royal couple and three of their daughters were discovered in 1998 and then officially identified seven years later before being reburied in Saint Petersburg. A second grave was discovered in 2007 containing what is thought to be the remains of Alexei and Maria. The Russian government needs to positively identify the remains before they can be buried in Saint Petersburg.
See Russia to exhume Tsar Alexander III in slain Romanovs probe, Borneo Post Online, October 27, 2015.
Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.