After the execution on the night of July 16-17, 1918, the bodies of members of the royal family and their entourage (11 people in total) were loaded into a car and sent towards Verkh-Isetsk to the abandoned mines of Ganina Yama. At first they unsuccessfully tried to burn the victims, and then they threw them into the shaft of the mine and threw them with branches.

Discovery of remains

However, the next day, almost the entire Verkh-Isetsk knew about what had happened. In addition, according to Medvedev, a member of the firing squad, "the icy water of the mine not only washed away the blood completely, but also froze the bodies so much that they looked like they were alive." The conspiracy clearly failed.

The remains were promptly reburied. The area was cordoned off, but the truck, having driven only a few kilometers, got stuck in the swampy area of ​​the Porosenkov Log. Without beginning to invent anything, one part of the bodies was buried right under the road, and the other - a little to the side, after filling them with sulfuric acid. Sleepers were placed on top for reliability.

Interestingly, the forensic investigator N. Sokolov, sent by Kolchak in 1919 to search for a burial site, found this place, but he did not think of raising the sleepers. In the area of ​​Ganina Yama, he managed to find only a severed female finger. Nevertheless, the conclusion of the investigator was unequivocal: “Here is all that remains of the August Family. Everything else was destroyed by the Bolsheviks with fire and sulfuric acid.”

Nine years later, perhaps it was Porosenkov Log that Vladimir Mayakovsky visited, as can be judged from his poem “The Emperor”: “Here the cedar was touched with an ax, notches under the root of the bark, at the root under the cedar there is a road, and the emperor is buried in it.”

It is known that the poet, shortly before his trip to Sverdlovsk, met in Warsaw with one of the organizers of the execution of the royal family, Peter Voikov, who could show him the exact place.

Ural historians found the remains in the Piglet Log in 1978, but permission for excavations was received only in 1991. There were 9 bodies in the burial. During the investigation, some of the remains were recognized as "royal": according to experts, only Alexei and Maria were missing. However, many experts were confused by the results of the examination, and therefore no one was in a hurry to agree with the conclusions. The House of Romanov and the Russian Orthodox Church refused to recognize the remains as authentic.

Alexei and Maria were discovered only in 2007, guided by a document compiled from the words of the commandant of the "House of Special Purpose" Yakov Yurovsky. "Yurovsky's note" initially did not inspire much confidence, nevertheless, the place of the second burial was indicated correctly in it.

Falsifications and myths

Immediately after the execution, representatives of the new government tried to convince the West that the members of the imperial family, or at least the children, were alive and in a safe place. People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin in April 1922 at the Genoa Conference, to the question of one of the correspondents about the fate of the Grand Duchesses, vaguely answered: “The fate of the tsar's daughters is not known to me. I read in the papers that they were in America."

However, P. L. Voikov, in an informal setting, stated more specifically: "the world will never know what we did to the royal family." But later, after the publication in the West of the materials of the Sokolov investigation, the Soviet authorities recognized the fact of the execution of the imperial family.

Falsifications and speculations around the execution of the Romanovs contributed to the spread of enduring myths, among which the myth of the ritual murder and the severed head of Nicholas II, which was in the special storage of the NKVD, was popular. Later, stories about the “miraculous salvation” of the Tsar’s children, Alexei and Anastasia, grew into myths. But all this has remained a myth.

Investigation and expertise

In 1993, Vladimir Solovyov, an investigator from the General Prosecutor's Office, was entrusted with the investigation into the discovery of the remains. Given the importance of the case, in addition to the traditional ballistic and macroscopic examinations, additional genetic studies were carried out jointly with British and American scientists.

For these purposes, blood was taken from some of the Romanov relatives living in England and Greece for analysis. The results showed that the probability that the remains belonged to members of the royal family was 98.5 percent.
The investigation considered this insufficient. Solovyov managed to obtain permission to exhume the remains of the tsar's brother, George. Scientists confirmed the "absolute positional similarity of mtDNA" of both remains, which revealed a rare genetic mutation inherent in the Romanovs - heteroplasmy.

However, after the discovery in 2007 of the alleged remains of Alexei and Maria, new studies and examinations were required. The work of scientists was greatly facilitated by Alexy II, who, before the burial of the first group of royal remains in the tomb of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, asked the investigators to remove bone particles. “Science is developing, it is possible that they will be needed in the future,” these were the words of the Patriarch.

To remove the doubts of skeptics for new examinations, the head of the laboratory of molecular genetics at the University of Massachusetts Evgeny Rogaev (who was insisted on by representatives of the Romanov dynasty), the chief geneticist of the US Army Michael Cobble (who returned the names of the victims of September 11), as well as an employee of the Institute of Forensic Medicine from Austria Walter Parson.

Comparing the remains from the two burials, the experts once again rechecked the previously obtained data, and also conducted new studies - the previous results were confirmed. Moreover, the “blood-splattered shirt” of Nicholas II (Otsu incident) found in the Hermitage funds fell into the hands of scientists. And again, a positive answer: the genotypes of the king “on the blood” and “on the bones” coincided.

Results

The results of the investigation into the case of the execution of the royal family refuted some pre-existing assumptions. For example, according to experts, “under the conditions in which the destruction of corpses was carried out, it was impossible to completely destroy the remains using sulfuric acid and combustible materials.”

This fact rules out Ganina Yama as the final burial site.
True, the historian Vadim Viner finds a serious gap in the conclusions of the investigation. He believes that some finds belonging to a later time, in particular coins of the 30s, were not taken into account. But as the facts show, information about the place of burial very quickly "leaked" to the masses, and therefore the burial ground could be repeatedly opened in search of possible values.

Another revelation is offered by the historian S. A. Belyaev, who believes that “the family of the Yekaterinburg merchant could be buried with imperial honors,” though without providing convincing arguments.
However, the conclusions of the investigation, which was carried out with unprecedented scrupulousness using the latest methods, with the participation of independent experts, are unequivocal: all 11 remains clearly correlate with each of those shot in the Ipatiev house. Common sense and logic dictate that it is impossible to accidentally duplicate such physical and genetic correspondences.
In December 2010, the final conference dedicated to the latest results of the examinations was held in Yekaterinburg. Reports were made by 4 groups of geneticists who worked independently in different countries. Opponents of the official version could also express their views, however, according to eyewitnesses, “having listened to the reports, they left the hall without uttering a word.”
The Russian Orthodox Church still does not recognize the authenticity of the "Ekaterinburg remains", but many representatives of the Romanov dynasty, judging by their statements in the press, accepted the final results of the investigation.

Why this article was posted: Prime Minister Medvedev ordered the creation of a commission to study the remains of Alexei and Maria Romanov, which are still stored in the State Archives and "they should be buried with the rest of the family." However, thinking people have long understood that the “royal remains” are fake. But who benefits?

The publication by Japanese geneticists of the results of a study of human remains, which the official Russian authorities recognized as the remains of the family of Nikolai Romanov, made a lot of noise. After analyzing the DNA structures of the Yekaterinburg remains and comparing them with the analysis of the DNA of the brother of Nicholas II, Grand Duke Georgy Romanov, the natural nephew of Emperor Tikhon Kulikovsky-Romanov, and DNA taken from sweat particles from the imperial clothes, Tatsuo Nagai, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Microbiology, came to the conclusion that the remains , discovered near Yekaterinburg, do not belong to Nikolai Romanov and members of his family.

So the remains were kept in the bureau of forensic examination in Yekaterinburg

This gave particular weight to the arguments of that group of historians and geneticists who are sure that in 1998 absolutely alien remains were buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress under the guise of the imperial family with great fanfare. For almost ten years, the problem of searching and identifying the remains of the family of Nikolai Romanov shot in Yekaterinburg in 1918 has been dealt with by Vadim Viner, professor at the Russian Academy of History and Paleontology. To this end, he even created a special Center to investigate the circumstances of the death of members of the Romanov family, of which he is president. Viner is sure that the statement of Japanese scientists could provoke a new political scandal in Russia if the decision of a special commission of the Russian government, recognizing the "Ekaterinburg remains" as Romanov's, is not canceled. He spoke about the main arguments in this regard and about what interests intertwined in the "Romanov case", he told in an interview with Strana.Ru correspondent Viktor Belimov.

— Vadim Alexandrovich, what reason does Russia have to trust Tatsuo Nagai?

— There are enough of them. It is known that for an examination of this level, it is necessary to take not the distant relatives of the emperor, but the closest relationship. I mean sisters, brothers, mother. What did the government commission do? She took a distant relationship, second cousins ​​​​of Nicholas II, and a very distant relationship through the line of Alexandra Feodorovna, this is the English Prince Philip. Despite the fact that there is an opportunity to find out the DNA structures of close relatives: there are the relics of Elizabeth Feodorovna, the sister of the Empress, the son of the sister of Nicholas II Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov. Meanwhile, the comparison was made on the basis of analyzes of distant relatives, and very strange results were obtained with such formulations as "there are matches." Coincidence in the language of geneticists does not mean identity at all. Actually, we all agree. Because we have two arms, two legs and one head. This is not an argument. The Japanese, on the other hand, took DNA tests of just close relatives of the emperor.

Funeral preparation

Second. A completely clear historical fact has been recorded that when Nikolai once, while still a crown prince, went to Japan, he was hit on the head with a saber. Two wounds were inflicted: occipito-parietal and fronto-parietal 9 and 10 cm, respectively. During the cleaning of the second occipital-parietal wound, a fragment of bone as thick as an ordinary sheet of writing paper was removed. This is enough to leave a notch on the skull - the so-called callus, which does not resolve. On the skull, which the Sverdlovsk authorities, and later the federal authorities, passed off as the skull of Nicholas II, there is no such callus. Both the Acquisition Foundation, represented by Mr. Avdonin, and the Sverdlovsk Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, represented by Mr. Nevolin, said whatever they wanted: that, they say, the Japanese were mistaken, that the wound could migrate along the skull, and so on.

Nicholas in Japan. 1891

And what did the Japanese do? It turns out that after Nikolai's visit to Japan, they kept his scarf, vest, the sofa on which he was sitting, and the saber with which he was hit. All this is in the museum of the city of Otsu. Japanese scientists studied the DNA of the blood that remained on the handkerchief after the injury, and DNA from the cut of the bones found in Yekaterinburg. It turned out that the structures of DNA are different. This was in 1997. Now, Tatsuo Nagai decided to summarize all this data into one comprehensive study. His examination lasted a year and ended quite recently, in July. Japanese geneticists proved 100 percent that the examination conducted by Mr. Ivanov's group was pure hack work. But the DNA analysis carried out by the Japanese is only a link in a whole chain of evidence that the Ekaterinburg remains were not involved in the family of Nicholas II.

In addition, I note that the same methodology was used by another geneticist, the president of the International Association of Forensic Physicians, Mr. Bonte from Dusseldorf. He proved that the found remains and twins of the family of Nicholas II Filatov are relatives.

The basement of the Ipatiev house, where the murder allegedly took place. Interestingly - and always "in the cellars" glued wallpaper? In addition, the blood of eleven people from the brutal execution and finishing off with bayonets should be everywhere. And on the door, too, and on the fragments of shingles from the wall. And in the photo you can’t say that the door or the floor was washed. And where are the numerous feathers from the pillow that managed to briefly save the maid Demidova (she went down to the basement with a pillow? - why?).

Why are the Japanese so interested in proving the mistake of the Russian government and Russian geneticists?

“Their interest here is purely professional. They keep a thing that is directly related not only to the memory of Russia, but also to the entire controversial situation. I mean the handkerchief with the king's blood. As you know, geneticists are divided on this issue, as are historians. The Japanese supported the group that is trying to prove that these are not the remains of Nicholas II and his family. And they supported it not because they wanted it, but because their results themselves showed the obvious incompetence of Mr. Ivanov, and even more so the incompetence of the entire government commission that was created under the leadership of Boris Nemtsov. The conclusions of Tatsuo Nagai are the last, very strong argument that is difficult to refute.

- Were there any responses to Nagai's statements from your opponents?

- There were screams. From the side of the same Avdonin. They say, and here is some Japanese professor, if the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Rossel supported us. Then it was said that it was inspired by some dark forces. Who are they? Apparently, there are many of them, starting with Patriarch Alexy II. Because the Church initially did not accept the point of view of the official authorities.

- You said that DNA analysis is only a link in the chain of evidence. What other arguments are there to prove that there are no remains of the last imperial family in the Peter and Paul Fortress?

— There are two blocks of arguments. The first block is lifelong medicine. Initially, Nikolai Alexandrovich and his family were served by 37 doctors. Naturally, medical documents have been preserved. This is the easiest examination. And the first argument that we found concerns the discrepancies between the data of the intravital records of doctors and the state of skeleton No. 5. This skeleton was passed off as the skeleton of Anastasia. According to the records of doctors, Anastasia had a height of 158 cm during her lifetime. She was short, plump. The skeleton that was buried is 171 cm tall and is the skeleton of a thin person. The second is the bone callus, as I have already said.

Third. In the diaries of Nicholas II, when he was in Tobolsk, there is an entry: "I was sitting at the dentist." Together with a number of fellow historians, we began to look for who was then a dentist in Tobolsk. He, or rather, she, was alone in the whole city - Maria Lazarevna Rendel. She left her son notes on the state of Nicholas II's teeth. She told me what fillings she applied. We asked forensics to see what kind of fillings the skeleton's teeth had. It turned out that nothing matches. The Medical Examiner's Bureau reiterated that Rendel was wrong. How wrong was she, if she, excuse me, personally treated his teeth?

We started looking for other entries. And I found in the State Archives of the Russian Federation at Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 17, the records of the life physician Evgeny Sergeevich Botkin. In one of the diaries there is a phrase: “Nicholas II unsuccessfully mounted a horse. Fell. Broken leg. The pain is localized. Plaster cast." But on the skeleton, which they are trying to pass off as the skeleton of Nicholas II, there is not a single fracture. And we did it at minimal cost. Solovyov, the investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office, who was in charge of this case, did not have to travel abroad and spend budget money, as he did with pleasure. It was enough to look into the archives of Moscow and St. Petersburg. But this does not mean unwillingness, but that the authorities very much wanted to ignore these arguments and documents.

The second block of arguments is related to history. First of all, we raised the question of whether Yurovsky's note, on the basis of which the authorities were looking for a grave, was genuine. And now our colleague, Doctor of Historical Sciences Professor Buranov, finds in the archive a handwritten note written by Mikhail Nikolaevich Pokrovsky, and by no means Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky. The grave is clearly marked there. That is, the note is a priori false. Pokrovsky was the first director of the Rosarkhiv. It was used by Stalin when history had to be rewritten. He has a famous expression: "History is politics turned to the past." Yurovsky's note is a fake. Since it's a fake, you can't find a grave from it. This is now a proven issue.

The situation in the house of Ipatiev under the commandant Yurovsky

House of Ipatiev. May 1918

Ipatiev House before demolition. Photo from the 1970s

Demolition

Demolition of the house of N.N. Ipatiev. Sverdlovsk, September 1977

There is also a legal side to this...

It is also full of oddities and absurdities. We originally asked that all this be displayed on the right field. In 1991, Avdonin, who found the grave, applied to the Verkh-Isetsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg with a statement about the find. From there, they turn to the regional prosecutor's office, and a prosecutor's check is appointed. The grave has been opened. Further it is not clear. A criminal case is not initiated, and within the framework of this check, a prosecutor's examination is appointed. This is already a clear contradiction. That is, they should have initiated a criminal case in connection with the discovery of remains that had signs of violent death. Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. As a result, a criminal case is initiated under article 102. A murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. This is where the real politics comes in. Because a simple question arises: if you are taking a case on the circumstances of the death of the royal family, then who should you involve as suspects in the murder? Sverdlov, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky - the city of Moscow? Or Beloborodov, Voikov, Goloshchekin - this is the Ural Council, Yekaterinburg. Against whom will you file a case if they are all dead?

That is, a priori, the case is illegal, and it had no judicial prospects. But under Article 102 it is easier to prove that these are the remains of the Romanov family, or rather, it is easier to ignore the arguments. How was it necessary to act if everything was done according to the law? You must set a statute of limitations, find out that no one can be held liable. The criminal case is to be closed. Next, you need to take the case to court, accept a judicial decision to establish the identity of the person, and then decide on the issue of the funeral. But it was unprofitable for the Prosecutor General's Office. She spent public money, feigning violent activity. That is, it was pure politics. Considering that huge federal budget money was pumped into this business.

The Prosecutor General's Office initiates a case under Article 102 and closes it due to the belonging of the remains to Nicholas II. It's the same difference as between sour and salty. Moreover, the decision on the remains was made not by the court, but by the government of the Russian Federation during the time of Chernomyrdin. The government decides by voting that these are the remains of the royal family. Is this a judgment? Naturally, no.

Moreover, the Prosecutor General's Office represented by Solovyov is seeking to issue a death certificate. I will quote him: “The death certificate was issued to Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich. Born May 6, 1868. Place of birth unknown. Education unknown. The place of residence before the arrest is unknown. The place of work before the arrest is unknown. Cause of death - shooting. The place of death is the basement of a residential building in the city of Yekaterinburg". Can you tell me who issued this certificate? Do you know where he was born? You don't even know that he was an emperor? This is the real mockery!

-July 26, 1975. KGB Chairman Andropov addressed the Central Committee of the CPSU with a proposal to demolish the “Ipatiev Mansion” in Sverdlovsk: “Anti-Soviet circles in the West periodically inspire various kinds of propaganda campaigns around the Romanov royal family ... recently foreign specialists began to visit Sverdlovsk. in the future, the circle of foreigners can expand significantly, and the Ipatiev house will become the object of their serious attention ... "

What is the position of the Church?

- She does not recognize these remains as authentic, seeing all these contradictions. The church initially divided the two issues - the remains separately, and the names separately. And then, realizing that the government will bury these remains, the Church makes the only correct decision from the series "God knows their names." Here is the paradox. The Church buries under the motto "God knows their names", Yeltsin, under the pressure of the Church, buries some victims of the civil war. The question is: who do we bury at all?

What do you think the purpose of this whole thing was? The argument to travel abroad is still weak. The level of play is still somewhat higher ...

- Undoubtedly. I mentioned only what lies on the surface. There are several types of arguments here. The first type is based on Governor Rossel's favorite phrase "to go down in history." The essence of this argument is to show off against the background of crowned persons.

But the banal reason is in the other direction. When did interest in the Romanovs arise? It was then when Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, and then Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, tried to improve relations with Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II said that she would not come to Russia until they apologized to her for the fate of Nicholas II. Nicholas II and her father are cousins. And she went only after they apologized to her. That is, all stages of the appearance and study of these remains are closely related to political events.

The autopsy of the remains took place a few days before the meeting between Gorbachev and Thatcher. As for Britain as such, there, in the bank of the Baring brothers, there is gold, personal gold of Nicholas II. Five and a half tons. They cannot give out this gold until Nicholas II is declared dead. Not even missing. Because no one was wanted. Therefore, he is not missing. According to the laws of Great Britain, the absence of a corpse and the absence of documents declaring a wanted list means that the person is alive. In this situation, apparently hoping that it will be possible to process some relatives, the authorities decide to search for the remains and conduct a poor-quality examination.

Extracted after the murder of the royal family, a fragment of wallpaper from the Ipatiev house with blood stains and lines in German from Heine's poem "Belshazzar": "That very night Belshazzar was killed by his servants" (stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation). A very strange story. By whom "extracted"?

“But even after that, the Baring brothers’ bank didn’t issue the gold…

- The Prosecutor General's Office did not accidentally write out a death certificate. And a group of citizens applied to the bank for money. But the bank does not recognize this document. They demand a decision of the Russian court that Nicholas II died and these are his remains.

- And why are relatives ready to worship someone else's grave, if only they were given gold?

- For most of the relatives, of course, finding a genuine grave is more important than gold. They tried to drag them into this dirty game. Many refused, but some of the Romanovs nevertheless came to Yekaterinburg for the funeral.

Funny resemblance?

- What do you propose to do now, when you have such influential people as Japanese scientists among your allies?

- Let's return the case strictly to the legal field. Let's take it to court. The court will reject the system of evidence of the Prosecutor General's Office. Since there are already two judicial rulings in Germany on the recognition of the Yekaterinburg remains as Filatov's relatives. That is, you still need to determine whose remains they are, and transfer them to relatives, let them decide where to bury them. That is, the procedure for the removal of the remains from the Peter and Paul Cathedral looms.

Do you know whose remains these are?

- According to German scientists, these are the remains of the Filatovs, the twins of Nicholas II. And Nicholas II had seven families of twins. This is also a well-known fact. The system of twins began with Alexander the First. When, as a result of a conspiracy, his father Emperor Paul the First was killed, he was afraid that Paul's people would kill him. He gave the command to pick up three doubles for himself. Historically, it is known that there were two assassination attempts on him. Both times he remained alive, because doubles died. Alexander II had no twins. Alexander the Third had doubles after the famous train crash in Borki. Nicholas II had twins after Bloody Sunday 1905. Moreover, these were specially selected families. Only at the last moment did a very narrow circle of people find out which route and in which carriage Nicholas II would go. And so the same departure of all three carriages was made. In which of them Nikolai II was sitting is unknown.

Documents about this lie in the archives of the third branch of the office of His Imperial Majesty. And the Bolsheviks, having seized the archive in 1917, naturally received the names of all the twins. Further, Sergey Davydovich Berezkin appears in Sukhumi, ideally similar to Nicholas II. His wife is Surovtseva Alexandra Feodorovna, a copy of the Empress. And his children are Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia. They covered the king.

When did they become known?

- They started talking about Berezkin since 1915. He also lived in Soviet times in Sukhumi. Died in 1957. The KGB used him to work with the monarchist-minded population. They went to him as to Nicholas II, and the authorities found out who went, why they went. The double problem is real. There, only the child who portrayed Alexei Nikolaevich did not suffer from hemophilia.

How were families formed?

- There were both real families and national teams. The problem of twins needs to be identified and studied. The prosecutor's office said "amen" to this version. I have already said that she did not take into account any evidence that went against the official point of view.

- Is there any evidence that the Filatovs followed to Tobolsk, to Yekaterinburg?

“We don't know that yet. Have questions. We have not received these documents yet. The trail leads to the FSB building. From there, after all, at one time, in 1955, information was leaked that a grave near Yekaterinburg was opened in 1946. Although there is also the conclusion of Doctor of Medical Sciences Popov that the grave is 50 years old, not 80. As we say, in the Romanov case, he answered one question - another 20 arose. The case is so confusing. It's cleaner than the Kennedy assassination. Because the information is strictly dosed.

- What was the point in 1946 to climb into this grave?

“Perhaps it was created at that time. Recall that in 1946 Anna Andersen, a resident of Denmark, tried to get royal gold. By starting the second process of recognizing himself as Anastasia. Her first process did not end with anything, it lasted until the mid-30s. Then she paused and in 1946 filed a lawsuit again. Stalin, apparently, decided that it would be better to make a grave where "Anastasia" would lie, than to explain these issues to the West. There are far-reaching plans, many of which we do not even know about. We can only guess.

- Did the Filatovs live at that time?

- I do not know. Filatov's trail is lost.

- And what kind of relatives did the scientist Bonte communicate with?

- He talked with Oleg Vasilyevich Filatov. This is the son of Filatov, who, according to some sources, portrayed Nikolai himself, according to others - Alexei. Obviously, Oleg himself heard the ringing, but does not know where he is. The German compared his analyzes with the German relatives of the Filatovs and with the Yekaterinburg remains. And got a 100% match. After all, no one denies this expertise. They are silent about her. Although in Germany it has the status of a judicial one. No one has ever talked about doppelgangers. I somehow hinted in one interview, they told me that I was crazy, although I was raising a problem that really existed.

— What do you intend to do in the future?

— We would like to create a discussion club, to hold a series of Internet conferences. In September, the well-known historian Vladlen Sirotkin is due to arrive in Yekaterinburg. He is collecting documents on Russia's claim to the debts of the West. According to him, not only do we owe the West, but the West also owes us. The amount of debt is 400 billion dollars. We owe the Czech Republic, England, France, America, Japan, Germany, Italy. A lot of money was sent to the West for the purchase of weapons during the First World War. These were pledges for future deliveries. But there were no deliveries. Our property is there. Here is the question price, which is really behind all this. We need to show that the problem is multifaceted. It is very important for us that we went against the government, official authorities, including the government of the Sverdlovsk region. We have been persecuted for the sake of establishing historical truth.

And today they are trying to inspire us with a cartoon about “the Grand Duchess and others, and others” Maria Vladimirovna, who wants a residence in Russia?

Especially for royalists, monarchists and just those who want to "join the roots":

The father of the "queen" - SS Obergruppenführer Vladimir Kirillovich during the Great Patriotic War commanded the Corps of the Imperial Army and Navy. All the monarchists in the French SS division "Charlemagne", the Belgian SS division "Wallonia", the Danish SS corps obeyed him. At the end of the war, he united his imperial corps with the 1st RNA of General Boris Smyslovsky, with whom he fled to Liechtenstein.

Maria Vladimirovna's aunt, Maria Kirillovna, was married on November 24, 1925 to a Navy officer, Prince Karl of Leiningen. At the end of the war, he was captured by the Soviets.

And their daughter Margarita married Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, whose father, Prince Friedrich Viktor von Hohenzollern, a colonel in the Prussian and Saxon army, was a divisional general of the Romanian army and chief of the Romanian 3rd mountain chasseur battalion named after Prince Friedrich von Hohenzollern. The units were near Stalingrad!

The second aunt of Maria Vladimirovna, her father's sister, Kira Kirillovna, is married to Luftwaffe Air Force officer Louis Ferdinand, the grandson of German Emperor Wilhelm II.

Maria Vladimirovna's maternal uncle, Leonida Georgievna's brother, Irakli Georgievich, was Rosenberg's personal assistant in the Third Reich ...

Both in words and in pictures:

Dear gentlemen, monarchists and other royalists who sympathize with them! I understand, can't wait! But somehow you need to control yourself ... At least try ...

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In the coming days, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church will discuss whether to consider the remains of the royal family found in the 20th century to be authentic. On the eve of the council, the secretary of the commission for the study of the remains, Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov), stated that the murder of the royal family was ritual, which caused indignation among representatives of the Jewish communities.

"We have the most serious attitude towards the version of ritual murder. A significant part of the church commission has no doubts that this murder was ritual," Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov), who is called "Putin's confessor", said at a conference on the murder of Nicholas II and his family in 1918.

The conference "The Case of the Murder of the Royal Family: New Expertise and Archival Materials" was devoted to the preliminary results of expert examinations on the authenticity of the royal remains found at the end of the 20th century near Yekaterinburg.

The final decision on whether the church recognizes the authenticity of these remains must be made by the Council of Bishops, but when exactly this decision will be made has not yet been said. The cathedral, which opens on Wednesday, will also be visited by Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

The Investigative Committee, which is currently investigating the "Yekaterinburg remains," said it would check the version about the rituality of this murder. After that, the chairman of the Jewish communities of Russia, Alexander Boroda, said that he regretted the decision of the department.

Boroda noted that in the 1990s, the prosecutor's office "confirmed the unsubstantiated" version of the ritual murder of the royal family by Jews. "It is regrettable that it is brought up again, presenting the slanderous slander as a version worthy of verification," he added.

Where did the version of ritual murder come from and why is it so important to the church?

What ritual are you talking about?

The last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna and five children were shot in Yekaterinburg in 1918. The execution was led by the revolutionary Yakov Yurovsky. It is to his memoirs that Bishop Tikhon refers, speaking of the ritual murder of a family.

"The fact that the emperor, even if he has abdicated, is killed in this way, that the victims were distributed among the killers, as evidenced by Yurovsky, and that many wanted to be regicides. This already suggests that for many it was a special ritual" the bishop said.

The version that the murder of the royal family was a kind of "ritual" appeared during the first investigation, which, on the orders of the White Guards, was conducted by Nikolai Sokolov and Mikhail Diterikhs. It was first voiced in a book by Diterichs in 1922, historian Anatoly Stepanov, who is authorized by a church commission to publish conversations with experts investigating the authenticity of the "Yekaterinburg remains," told the BBC Russian Service.

"Some facts testify in favor of this version. First of all, this is the assumption of General Dieterikhs that the heads of the royal martyrs - all or only the sovereign, the heir and the queen - were separated from the bodies and taken to Moscow in alcohol flasks by Philip Goloshchekin, the coordinator of this murder. About this was only indirect evidence," Stepanov said.

However, historians still do not have unambiguous evidence that the heads were indeed separated. Thus, at the conference "The Case of the Murder of the Royal Family," Vasily Khristoforov, the former head of the FSB archival funds, said that "there is not a single document, not a single indirect indication of the beheading of the participants in these events." According to him, it is unlikely that the heads were separated after the murder: the Soviet authorities did not use the method of cutting off the head as a "method for collecting evidence."

And what about the Jews?

There are two reasons why some researchers of the circumstances of the death of the family of Nicholas II conclude that there was a Kabbalistic conspiracy against the monarchy.

The first is the identity of those who led the murder. "Yakov Yurovsky was an ethnic Jew, but he was a baptized Lutheran Christian. Filipp Goloshchekin was a Jew. There is no information that he was baptized. But with regard to other participants, it is not in the department of the federation of Jewish communities to do this," says Stepanov.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The room where the royal family was executed

The second is the mysterious symbols found on the basement wall in the house where the royal family was shot. The signs were discovered by investigator Sokolov during the first investigation. "He wrote that these were mysterious signs next to some numbers. He could not decipher them," Stepanov said.

After that, in 1925, in exile, a well-known lover of the East and the occult, Mikhail Skaryatin, published a brochure in which he offered his own interpretation of the inscription - "Here, by order of secret forces, the Tsar was sacrificed for the destruction of Russia. All peoples are informed about this."

"Skaryatin called the signs on the wall cabalistic. Hence the version of the cabalists (adherents of the esoteric Jewish movement) appeared," Stepanov said.

At the same time, none of the commissions in the case of the murder of the royal family came to the conclusion that this crime was ritual; the involvement of Kabbalists in the execution was also not proven.

Who will put an end to the dispute?

On the part of the secular authorities, the Investigative Committee will check the version of the ritual murder. To do this, a psychological and historical examination will be carried out with the participation of Russian scientists, archivists and representatives of the church, said investigator Marina Molodtsova, who is in charge of the murder of the royal family.

It is not clear how long the investigation will last: the Investigative Committee has not yet completed an examination to study the authenticity of the "Yekaterinburg remains." The investigative committee's verification of the version of the ritual is part of a larger investigation into the remains.

Historian Anatoly Stepanov believes that the investigation should consider all versions of the murder of the royal family. "The ritual version is being discussed because these facts have not been refuted or confirmed," he said.

The scientific director of the State Archives, Sergei Mironenko, who took part in the investigation into the murder of the royal family, called the version of the ritual murder "obviously false." "Do you believe that Jews knead matzah on the blood of babies?" - he said.

The Church has already investigated this issue: 20 years ago: the Holy Synod instructed the theological commission to study the assumptions about the ritual murder of the royal family, and the answer was negative, Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev told the BBC Russian Service.

"Church experts themselves said that there is no reason to assume such terrible stories. I think that now the documents do not give grounds for such exotic versions," he said.

Why is this important to the church?

"The emperor, even having renounced, remained unconditionally a symbolic, sacred figure. The murder of the tsar and his family, which puts the last point in the existence of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty, hated by the new government, was a very special matter, carrying ritual, symbolic content for many," Bishop Tikhon said. Shevkunov.

The issue of recognizing the remains is "painful for the patriarchate," Kuraev says. According to him, according to yesterday's conference, it becomes clear that both the patriarch and Bishop Tikhon consider the remains to be genuine, but the question arises of how "the least painless way to make this conviction common to the Church."

Image copyright Sergey Vlasov/patriarchia.ru Image caption Patriarch Kirill and Bishop Tikhon at a conference on the "Ekaterinburg remains"

The question of the church's recognition of the remains was raised 20 years ago: in 1998, after five years of examinations, the government commission for the study of the authenticity of the "Yekaterinburg remains" declared that they were genuine. The remains of Nicholas II and members of his family were buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Orthodox Church refused to recognize the "Ekaterinburg remains" and announced a possible falsification of the research results. Patriarch Alexy II said that the Russian Orthodox Church does not recognize the remains due to the fact that representatives of the church were not allowed to investigate the case. The grave of the royal family in the Peter and Paul Fortress is still not revered by the Orthodox, although the emperor and his family were recognized as saints back in the early 2000s.

The case on the authenticity of the remains of the royal family was reopened in 2015 at the request of the Russian Orthodox Church. The case was taken up by an investigative committee, and a church commission was also set up, including Bishop Tikhon. As part of a new investigation, the bodies of Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra were exhumed to establish the authenticity of other remains found in 2007.

At a conference on the "Yekaterinburg" remains, Patriarch Kirill said that he had discussed the issue of recognizing the remains with President Putin. "I have formulated our conditions. The whole process must be repeated anew and from the very beginning the church should not only observe, it should be included in it," the patriarch said.

“There is a clear conflict between this story and the trend of the current pontificate to declare the patriarchal position infallible,” Andrei Kuraev believes.

According to him, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church do not expect the investigative committee to confirm the version of the ritual murder of the royal family. "All this is needed to say: we hear the aspirations and bewilderment of our people and therefore we protect your interests and answer all questions," Kuraev said.

Image copyright Yuri Smityuk/TASS

05/10/2015

On October 18, the remains of Tsarevich Alexei and his sister, Grand Duchess Maria, are to be buried in the Cathedral of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The Russian Orthodox Church, however, doubts the authenticity of these remains, as well as the remains of all other members of the royal family buried in 1998.

P about her initiative, the ashes of Nicholas II had just been exhumed for a new genetic study. The desire to get to the bottom of the historical truth, of course, should only be welcomed. It is strange, however, that this interest is so selective. For example, the church has no doubts about the authenticity of the relics of Alexander Nevsky or any other historical saint.

As you know, the remains of Nicholas II and his family members (with the exception of Alexei and Maria), as well as a doctor and three servants, were discovered in 1991. After numerous examinations in 1998, a government commission chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov recognized their authenticity. The remains were buried with all possible honors in the Peter and Paul Cathedral. The Church, however, disagreed with the experts' conclusions. Patriarch Alexy II did not participate in the ceremony, and the panikhida was served as if by nameless ones: “Their names, Lord, You weigh.”

Those who disagree with the authenticity of the remains refer, in particular, to the investigation of Nikolai Sokolov, conducted in 1918. A week after the execution of the royal family, Yekaterinburg was occupied by the whites, who began searching for the remains. The head of the commission of inquiry, Nikolai Sokolov, came to the conclusion that the bodies were completely destroyed in the area of ​​Ganina Yama. This is seven kilometers from Porosenkov Log, where they were found in 1991.

The remains of Alexy and Maria were discovered in 2007 near the first burial. After genetic examinations in 2008, they were recognized as the remains of the children of the last emperor. After that, they were kept in the State Archives. In the spring of this year, the idea arose to bury the prince and his sister next to their parents. A specially created commission set the date for the funeral: October 18. The Church, however, once again declared the lack of confidence in the reliability of the examinations. On her initiative, the remains of Nicholas II were exhumed for a new examination.

“Not a single historian from the Institute of Russian History and only one representative of the Orthodox Church was invited to the first commission, there are very big questions for the new commission,” Deacon Vladimir Vasilik outlined the position of the skeptical clergy to Gorod 812. - Official conclusions contain many innuendos. On the skull, which is conventionally identified as the skull of Nicholas II, there are no traces of a blow from a samurai sword, although they could not be missing. This skull has teeth in a disgusting state, untreated, which is absolutely impossible. And one more factor, rather of a religious and mystical nature. Everyone knows what level of reverence we have for the king and the royal family today. If these remains were genuine, people would have reached out to them, as if to relics. But the people turn away from them, and this is a spiritual criterion that testifies to their inauthenticity. We should not forget, and who did all this in 1998 - the same notorious shaker of Russian statehood, Boris Nemtsov. Many clerics are skeptical about the authenticity of these remains."

The amazing unwillingness of the church to recognize the authenticity of the remains has not found an unambiguous interpretation. Versions were up to the most exotic - for example, it was not possible to get land for the construction of a church in the Porosenkov Log area, so it had to be built near Ganina Yama, so the theory that the remains were destroyed there turns out to be preferable.

The political explanation looked much more serious: Patriarch Alexy allegedly did not want to strongly link the church with the Romanovs, fearing to lose the audience of communist grandmothers (at that time Orthodoxy and Leninism / Stalinism had not yet learned to coexist peacefully in one head). Actually, they were canonized only in 2000 after long disputes, not least in order to get closer to the Church Abroad, which the Moscow Patriarchate had dreamed of annexing since Stalin's times.

Finally, there are procedural issues: as long as the church has not recognized the belonging of the “Ekaterinburg remains” to the royal martyrs (the last Romanovs have this status), they are not holy relics. And as soon as he recognizes, they will automatically become them. Miracles must be performed over the holy relics, miracles must be documented. In general, quite a lot of difficulties.

“In 1998, when the Yekaterinburg remains were buried, the patriarchate officially declared that they did not recognize their authenticity. Therefore, now, in order to be consistent, it is necessary to express doubts further - after all, not all people have a short memory, many remember how it was, - says Deacon Andrei Kuraev. - And then this decision was largely determined by the choice of experts. Under Patriarch Alexy, there was such a Mr. Belyaev who assured him that the remains were not real. In addition, the burial commission was headed by Boris Nemtsov, and in the church environment, some said that "the Jew is imposing holy relics on us." This factor must also be taken into account. Now, of course, times are not like those under Yeltsin, and the patriarchate cannot afford such frank opposition to the authorities, but it still shows doubts. That is, it is a matter of preserving the honor of the cassock.”

Therefore, it is quite possible that now, after new examinations, the church will be convinced of the authenticity of the remains - both Nikolai and Alexei. After all, the time for finding the holy relics is now suitable, not like in 1998: Russia is rising from its knees, Crimea, the Russian world is already in Syria. Miracles just can't stop happening .

That the Church has not yet formed its position regarding the Yekaterinburg remains.

According to him, the investigation conducted in the 1990s was characterized by lack of transparency and complete unwillingness to let the Church into this process. Therefore, the Patriarch, discussing this topic with the President of Russia, raised the issue of a second investigation, where “from the very beginning to the end, the Church should not watch from the outside, but it should be included in this process.”

“And as a result of a new investigation, conducted anew in accordance with all the rules for conducting an investigative case, we received some results,” said the Primate of the Church.

He stressed that the results of the examinations are not tied to any dates or terms, so there can be no haste.

“For us, this is not just a question of how this murder was committed, what it all meant, whether the found remains are the remains of the royal family. This is also a question related to the spiritual life of our people, because the royal family has been canonized and deeply revered by the people. Therefore, we have no right to make a mistake,” he stressed.

Archimandrite Savva (Tutunov), deputy manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, said that the issue of the authenticity of the Yekaterinburg remains will be considered at the Bishops' Council, which will be held in Moscow from November 29 to December 4.

“People who are responsible for studying this issue will probably tell something. But it’s too early to talk about what conclusions will be drawn,” he said, stressing that the examination will take as much time as it will take to complete it.

Vladimir Legoyda, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media, noted that the completion of the examination is also “only a stage: you need to see how the results of one examination are combined with another.”

“This process will be as open as possible,” he promised.

Interrogations and examinations

Marina Molodtsova

Marina Molodtsova, senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, said that after the resumption of the investigation into the murder of the royal family, more than 20 people who discovered the burial of the remains and participated in the excavations were interrogated.

“With their participation, inspections of the scene were made - both the Ganina pit and the Piglet log, where they spoke about the circumstances known to them in the case,” Molodtsova said.

She also said that after the resumption of the investigation into the death of the royal family, 34 different examinations were appointed by the investigating authorities.

“Production of examinations is not finished. There are only intermediate results on some issues,” the investigator said.

According to Molodtsova, “careful studies are being carried out on the remains of people found in two burials in the Piglet Log. The experts were asked questions about the causes of death, the establishment of gender and family ties, and the identification of various injuries.

We are talking about the remains of nine people found in the area of ​​the Old Koptyakovskaya road in 1991 and subsequently buried in the tomb of the Romanovs in the Peter and Paul Fortress in 1998, as well as a find in 2007. Then, during archaeological excavations south of the place of discovery of the alleged remains of members of the Romanov family, burnt fragments of bones and teeth of a woman and a child were found.

Molodtsova noted that the molecular genetic examination has not been completed, as well as the examination of the soil in order to establish the likelihood of their burning.

Ritual murder version

The investigator said that a psychological and historical examination would also be carried out "to resolve the issue of the possible ritual nature of the murder" and an examination "on all versions of Yurovsky's notes (Yakov Yurovsky - the immediate leader of the execution of the family of Nicholas II in the Ipatiev House. - Ed.) because there are doubts about the authorship of these notes.

“Conducting examinations requires considerable time,” she concluded.

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov)

The fact that the murder of Nicholas II and his family could be of a ritual nature was also stated by the secretary of the Patriarchal Commission for the study of the results of the examination, Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Yegoryevsk.

“We have the most serious attitude towards the version of ritual murder. Moreover, a significant part of the church commission has no doubts that this was the case,” he said.

The secretary of the commission stressed that this version must be proven and substantiated. “It needs to be proven and substantiated. The fact that the emperor, even if he has abdicated, is killed in this way, that the victims were distributed among the killers, as evidenced by Yurovsky (one of the participants in the execution), and that many wanted to be regicides. This already suggests that for many it was a special ritual,” Bishop Tikhon added.

Rumor Denial

Vasily Khristoforov

Vasily Khristoforov, chief researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, researcher on the history of Russian special services, Doctor of Law, denied rumors that the Bolsheviks allegedly cut off the head of Nicholas II and sent him to the Kremlin. According to the historian, this information was not confirmed during the investigation into the circumstances of the death of the royal family.

“We do not have not only a single document, but not a single indirect evidence of a participant in the events about the beheading,” said Khristoforov, who is a member of the Patriarchal Commission for the study of the results of the study of the Yekaterinburg remains.

The search must continue

Viktor Zvyagin

Viktor Zvyagin, head of the forensic medical identification department of the Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination, believes that the search for possible burial sites for Emperor Nicholas II, members of his family and servants must be continued.

According to the expert, this conclusion was made on the basis of the mass of discovered bone and dental fragments of the burial, which presumably belongs to Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Anastasia. “A total of 46 bone objects were delivered, most of which had a mass of less than a gram,” he said, noting that this is significantly less than what, according to experts, should have been found. In addition, fragments of bones that do not belong to people were found there.

“The results show that only one of several criminal burial sites has been found and the search should continue. There is evidence that several places have been found where it is possible to find them (remains. - Ed.) using 3d radar methods, ”Zvyagin said.

Complete burn doubtful

Vyacheslav Popov

Vyacheslav Popov, Chairman of the Forensic Medical Association of the North-West of Russia, President of the International Congress of Forensic Physicians, is sure that the bodies of the family of Nicholas II and their servants could not be completely destroyed by sulfuric acid and fire.

“There is no reason to overestimate the damaging effect of sulfuric acid, it, of course, could be poured onto bodies, but it is impossible to destroy them with this method of exposure to concentrated acid,” the expert noted.

He said that experiments were carried out not only using concentrated sulfuric acid, but also an experiment investigating processes in a cremation chamber, which led experts to the conclusion that it was impossible to burn the bodies completely.

Patriarch Kirill also noted that it is necessary to once again check the version of the possible complete burning of the remains. He told how he himself witnessed the process of cremation of the dead in India.

“I was there and saw with my own eyes how cremations are carried out: they burn the whole day, from early morning until late at night, using huge dry firewood. As a result of cremation, body parts still remain,” the Primate said.

At the same time, according to Marina Molodtsova, the investigation is considering all versions of the murder of members of the royal family, including the version of the complete burning of bodies in the Ganina Yama area. As part of the investigation of this version, “soil samples were discovered and taken from the territory of the monastery of the Royal Passion-Bearers.”

How the commission works: two groups

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) spoke about the work of the Patriarchal Commission for the study of the results of the examination of the Ekaterinburg remains. According to him, the expert groups of church and secular specialists "do not influence each other."

“The church commission, which works with the blessing of the Patriarch, consists of historians, we have a historical part. The investigation attracted experts in forensic science, anthropology, genetics and forensic scientists. Forensic scientists and anthropologists work on their own. For us it is very important. There is no impact on them,” the bishop explained.

At the same time, he noted that the results of the work of different groups of specialists are known to everyone involved in the work on this case. “Historians have the opportunity to see the results of anthropologists and forensic scientists,” he added.

The last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family were shot in the summer of 1918 in Yekaterinburg. In 2000, the Russian Church canonized Nicholas II and members of his family as saints, after opening the burial near Yekaterinburg, the remains of members of the imperial family were buried in the tomb of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

In the fall of 2015, investigators resumed the investigation into the death of members of the Romanov family. Examinations are also currently being carried out to establish the authenticity of the remains found in 2007, possibly those of Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria.