- Remains of the last Russian emperor Nikolas II, which
were buried in Peter and Paul Cathedral in St.Petersburg in 1998, do not
belong to the Russian Tsar, the president of the center investigating the
details of the Romanovs Royal Family's death, Vadim Viner said on Thursday.
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- According to the historian, specialists discovered the
absence of fillings in the teeth of the skeleton, which had been buried
in the cathedral. Scientists, therefore, believed that the remains belonged
to an absolutely different person.
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- "Nikolas II has notes in his diary. The tsar wrote
that he had visited a dentist. The tsar's doctor Maria Rendel has similar
notes too. The records contain a detailed description of the dental work,
the fillings in particular. Forensic medics examined the skeleton, which
was considered to be the remains of Nikolas II, but did not find any tooth
fillings," Vadim Viner said.
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- The expert assures that the authorities violated the
legal procedure of burying the remains: "From the legal point of view,
it is a homeless person who is buried in Peter and Paul Cathedral instead
of Tsar Nikolas II," Viner said. The historian added that it was not
the court that made the decision regarding the burial: "Everything
was decided by the executive authorities, although they had no right to
do it," said he.
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- "They simply ignored any doubtful and disputable
facts that we and our colleagues found. In other words, they decided for
themselves from the very beginning that the uncovered remains belonged
to the tsar and no one else. No expertise was conducted. They had only
to make the society believe that it was the tsar's skeleton," the
expert concluded.
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- Vadim Viner said that the center for the history of the
royal family, "The Fate of the Dynasty," was going to file a
claim to the Supreme Court of Russia to dispute the decision about the
burial of the remains. "The center is currently preparing an address
to the Supreme Court with a request to review the legal ground of the decision
to bury the remains uncovered in Ekaterinburg," Viner said.
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- "The Fate of the Dynasty" center was founded
in 1994. In September of 1995, the center became a member of the Russian
committee of foreign experts for investigating the fates of the Russian
emperor's family members. The center also officially represents the "400
Years to the Clan of the Romanovs" foundation in Ekaterinburg.
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- Pravda.Ru
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