Didn't the execution of the royal family actually happen? Fussing with the fake remains of the royal family.

This gave special weight to the arguments of that group of learned historians and geneticists who are confident that in 1998, in the Peter and Paul Fortress, under the guise of the imperial family, completely alien remains were buried with great pomp. For almost ten years, the problem of searching for and identifying the remains of Nikolai Romanov’s family executed in Yekaterinburg in 1918 has been dealt with by Vadim Viner, a professor at the Russian Academy of History and Paleontology. For this purpose, he even created a special Center to investigate the circumstances of the death of family members of the House of Romanov, of which he is the president. Wiener is confident 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 remains is not canceled. He spoke about the main arguments on this matter and what interests were intertwined in the “Romanov case” in an interview with Strana.Ru correspondent Viktor Belimov.

- Vadim Aleksandrovich, what reasons 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 distant relatives of the emperor, but close relatives. This means sisters, brothers, mother. What did the government commission do? She took distant kinship, second cousins of Nicholas II, and a very distant kinship along the line of Alexandra Feodorovna, this is the English Prince Philip. Despite the fact that it is possible to find out the DNA structures of close relatives: there are the relics of Elizabeth Feodorovna, the Empress’s sister, the son of Nicholas II’s sister Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov. Meanwhile, the comparison was made on the basis of analyzes of distant relatives, and very strange results were obtained with formulations such as “there are coincidences.” Coincidence in the language of geneticists does not mean identity at all. In general, we are all the same. Because we have two arms, two legs and one head. This is not an argument. The Japanese took DNA tests of the emperor’s close relatives.

Second. A very clear historical fact has been recorded that when Nicholas once, while still a crown prince, traveled 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. While cleaning the second occipito-parietal wound, a bone fragment the thickness of an ordinary sheet of writing paper was removed. This is enough to leave a notch on the skull - the so-called bone 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 Obretenie Foundation, represented by Mr. Avdonin, and the Sverdlovsk Bureau of Forensic Medicine, represented by Mr. Nevolin, said whatever they wanted: that the Japanese were mistaken, that the wound could migrate along the skull, and so on.

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 sat, and the saber with which they hit him. All this is in the Otsu City Museum. Japanese scientists studied DNA from the blood that remained on the scarf after the wound, and DNA from cut bones discovered in Yekaterinburg. It turned out that the DNA structures 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 recently, in July. Japanese geneticists have proven 100 percent that the examination carried out by Mr. Ivanov’s group was pure hackwork. But the DNA analysis carried out by the Japanese is only a link in a whole chain of evidence about the non-involvement of the Yekaterinburg remains with the family of Nicholas II.

In addition, I note that an examination was carried out using the same method by another geneticist, the President of the International Association of Forensic Physicians, Mr. Bonte from Dusseldorf. He proved that the found remains and doubles of the family of Nicholas II, the Filatovs, are relatives.

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

Their interest here is purely professional. They have 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, which was created under the leadership of Boris Nemtsov. Tatsuo Nagai's conclusions 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. Like, what does some Japanese professor have to do with it if the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Rossel, supported us. Then it was said that this 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 intravital medicine. Initially, Nikolai Alexandrovich and his family were served by 37 doctors. Naturally, medical documents were preserved. This is the easiest examination. And the first argument that we found concerns the discrepancies between the data from the doctors’ lifetime records and the condition of skeleton No. 5. This skeleton was passed off as the skeleton of Anastasia. According to doctors' records, Anastasia had a height of 158 cm during her lifetime. She was short and plump. The skeleton that was buried is 171 cm tall and is the skeleton of a thin person. The second is callus, which I already mentioned.

Third. In the diaries of Nicholas II, when he was in Tobolsk, there is an entry: “I sat at the dentist.” A number of fellow historians and I began to look for who was the dentist in Tobolsk at that time. He, or rather she, was alone in the whole city - Maria Lazarevna Rendel. She left her son notes on the condition of Nicholas II's teeth. She told me what fillings she applied. We asked forensic scientists to look at the fillings on the skeleton's teeth. It turned out that nothing matches. The Medical Examiner's Office again said Rendell was wrong. How could she be wrong if she, excuse me, personally treated his teeth?

We started looking for other records. And I found in the State Archives of the Russian Federation at Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 17, the records of physician Evgeniy Sergeevich Botkin. In one of the diaries there is a phrase: “” “Nicholas II unsuccessfully climbed onto a horse. Fell. Broken leg. The pain is localized. A plaster cast has been applied." But there is not a single fracture on the skeleton, which they are trying to pass off as the skeleton of Nicholas II. And we did this at minimal cost. Investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office Solovyov, who led this case, did not need 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 indicate reluctance, but rather the fact 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 the grave, is genuine. And now our colleague, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Buranov, finds in the archive a handwritten note written by Mikhail Nikolaevich Pokrovsky, and not by any means Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky. This grave is clearly marked there. That is, the note is a priori false. Pokrovsky was the first director of Rosarkhiv. Stalin used it when it was necessary to rewrite history. He has a famous expression: “History is politics facing the past.” Yurovsky's note is a fake. Since it is a fake, you cannot use it to locate the grave. This is now a proven issue.

- This also has a legal side...

It is also full of oddities and absurdities. We originally asked that all of this be displayed in the right margin. In 1991, Avdonin, who found the grave, contacted the Verkh-Isetsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg with a statement about the find. From there they contact the regional prosecutor's office, and a prosecutor's inspection is ordered. The grave has been opened. Further it is unclear. A criminal case is not initiated, but as part of this inspection, a prosecutorial examination is appointed. This is already an obvious contradiction. That is, they had to initiate a criminal case in connection with the discovery of remains that showed 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. Murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. This is where real politics comes into play. Because a simple question arises: if you are taking a case based 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 Beloborodova, Voikova, Goloshchekina - this is Uralsovet, Yekaterinburg. Who will you file a case against if they are all dead?

That is, a priori the case was 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 should one act if everything was done according to the law? You must set a statute of limitations and find out that no one can be held accountable. The criminal case is subject to closure. Next, you need to take the case to court, make a judicial ruling to establish personal identity, and then resolve the issue of the funeral. But this was not profitable for the Prosecutor General's Office. She spent government money, feigning vigorous activity. That is, it was pure politics. Considering that huge amounts of money from the federal budget were poured into this matter.

The Prosecutor General's Office initiates a case under Article 102 and closes it due to the fact that the remains belong to Nicholas II. It's the same difference as between sour and salty. Moreover, the decision about the remains was made not by the court, but by the government of the Russian Federation under Chernomyrdin. The government decides by voting that these are the remains of the royal family. Is this a court decision? Naturally not.

Moreover, the General Prosecutor's Office, represented by Solovyov, is seeking to issue a death certificate. I will quote him: “The death certificate was issued to Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov. Born May 6, 1868. Place of birth unknown. Education unknown. His place of residence before his arrest is unknown. His place of work before his arrest is unknown. The cause of death was execution. The place of death is the basement of a residential building in Yekaterinburg.” Tell me, who was issued this certificate? You don't know where he was born? You don't even know that he was an emperor? This is the realest mockery!

-What is the position of the Church?

She does not recognize these remains as authentic, seeing all these contradictions. The church initially separated 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 “God knows their names” series. Here's the paradox. The Church buries under the motto “God knows their names,” Yeltsin, under pressure from the Church, buries some victims of the civil war. The question is: who are we burying anyway?

What do you think was the purpose of this whole thing? The argument for traveling “abroad” is still weak. The level of the game is still slightly higher...

But the banal reason is in the other direction. When did interest in the Romanovs arise? It was 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 apologize 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 Baring brothers’ bank, lies gold, the personal gold of Nicholas II. Five and a half tons. They cannot release this gold until Nicholas II is declared dead. Not even missing in action. Because no one put anyone on the wanted list. Therefore, he is not missing. According to UK law, the absence of a corpse and the absence of documents on the wanted list means that the person is alive. In this situation, apparently hoping that they will be able to process certain relatives, the authorities decide to search for the remains and conduct a poor-quality examination.

- But even after that, the Baring brothers’ bank did not issue gold...

It was not by chance that the Prosecutor General's Office issued a death certificate. And a group of citizens turned to the bank for money. But the bank does not recognize this document. They are demanding a decision from a Russian court that Nicholas II died and these are his remains.

- Why are relatives ready to worship someone else’s grave if only they were given gold?

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

What do you propose to do now that you have such influential people as Japanese scientists as your allies?

Let's return the matter strictly to the legal field. We'll take it to court. The court will reject the evidence system of the Prosecutor General's Office. Since there are already two court rulings in Germany on the recognition of the Yekaterinburg remains as relatives of the Filatovs. That is, you still need to determine whose remains these are and hand them over to relatives, let them decide where to bury them. That is, the procedure for removing the remains from the Peter and Paul Cathedral is looming.

- Do you know whose remains these are?

According to German scientists, these are the remains of the Filatovs, doubles of Nicholas II. And Nicholas II had seven families of doubles. This is also a fact already known. The system of doubles began with Alexander the First. When his father, Emperor Paul the First, was killed as a result of a conspiracy, he was afraid that Paul's people would kill him. He gave the command to select three doubles for himself. Historically, it is known that there were two attempts on his life. Both times he remained alive because his doubles died. Alexander II had no doubles. Alexander the Third had doubles after the famous train crash in Borki. Nicholas II had doubles 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 travel. And so the same departure of all three carriages took place. It is unknown which of them Nicholas II sat in. Documents about this lie in the archives of the third department of the Office of His Imperial Majesty. And the Bolsheviks, having seized the archive in 1917, naturally received the names of all the doubles. Next, Sergei Davydovich Berezkin appears in Sukhumi, ideally similar to Nicholas II. His wife is Surovtseva Alexandra Fedorovna, a copy of the Empress. And he has children - Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia. They covered the king.

FSB. From there, at one time, in 1955, information was leaked that a grave near Yekaterinburg was opened in 1946. Although there is also a conclusion by Doctor of Medical Sciences Popov that the grave is 50 years old, not 80. As we say, in the Romanov case one question was answered - 20 more arose. The matter is so complicated. This is worse than the Kennedy assassination. Because the information is strictly dosed.

- What was the point of climbing into this grave in 1946?

Perhaps it was created at that time. Let us remember that in 1946, a resident of Denmark, Anna Andersen, tried to get royal gold. Starting the second process to recognize herself as Anastasia. Her first trial did not end in anything; it lasted until the mid-30s. Then she paused and in 1946 filed a lawsuit again. Stalin apparently decided that it was better to make a grave where “Anastasia” would lie than to explain these issues to the West. There are far-reaching plans here, many of which we don’t even know about. We can only guess.

- Did the Filatovs live at that time?

Don't know. Filatov's trail is lost.

- And what relatives did the scientist Bonte communicate with?

He communicated with Oleg Vasilyevich Filatov. This is the son of Filatov, who portrayed, according to some sources, Nikolai himself, according to others - Alexei. Obviously, Oleg himself heard the ringing, but does not know where it is. The German compared his analyzes with the German relatives of the Filatovs and with the Yekaterinburg remains. And I got a 100% match. Nobody denies this examination. They are silent about her. Although in Germany it has judicial status. No one has ever talked about doppelgängers. I once stuttered 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 some kind of discussion club and hold a series of Internet conferences. In September, the famous scientist-historian Vladlen Sirotkin is scheduled to come to Yekaterinburg. He is collecting documents on Russia's claims to Western debts. According to him, not only do we owe the West, but the West also owes us. The amount of debt is $400 billion. The Czech Republic, England, France, America, Japan, Germany, Italy owe us. A lot of money was sent to the West for the purchase of weapons during the First World War. These were collateral for future deliveries. But there were no deliveries. Our property is there. Here is the price of the issue, which really stands behind all this. We need to show that the problem is multifaceted. It is very important for us that we went against the government, the official authorities, including the government of the Sverdlovsk region. We were persecuted in order to establish historical truth.

What is the official investigation and scientific examination hiding in the case of the murder of the family of the last Russian emperor?

"The world will never know what we did to them..."

Commissioner Peter Voikov

(answering a question about the circumstances of Nikolai’s deathIIand his family)

The results of an unprecedented 24-year investigation into the belonging of the “Ekaterinburg remains” to the family of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas should soon be summed up II, shot in Ipatiev’s house on the night of July 16-17, 1918. The Patriarchal Commission and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church supported a comprehensive anthropological and historical examination. High-ranking scientists in Russia and other countries are studying molecular genetic and other data from the bones allegedly buried by the murderer of the royal family, Yakov Yurovsky, in a place called PorosenkovLog to make a final verdict on their authenticity.

Researchers were first brought to this location where the remains were found (on the Old Koptyakovskaya Road) by a note from Yurovsky, in which he describes in detail where and how he buried the corpses of the royal family. But why did the malicious killer give a detailed report to his descendants, where should they look for evidence of the crime? Moreover, a number of modern historians put forward the version that Yurovsky belonged to an occult sect and was certainly not interested in the further veneration of holy relics by believers. If he wanted to confuse the investigation in this way, then he definitely achieved his goal - the case of the murder of Nicholas II and his family under the symbolic number 18666 has been shrouded in a halo of secrecy for many years and contains a lot of contradictory information.

The burial commission, the head of which in 1998, for unknown reasons, was appointed by a former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, according to the estimates of today's researchers of the remains (in particular, Bishop Tikhona Shevkunova), performed her work in bad faith and committed many violations in her research. After this, at the request of the Orthodox public in 2015, President Vladimir Putin a decree was given to conduct a re-examination of the Ekaterinburg remains, involving highly professional experts in the case.

Bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, in his recent report, described in detail exactly how the work of experts is carried out: samples for molecular genetic examination are sent to several similar researchers at once, after which final conclusions are drawn about the results. The work of the commission is carried out behind closed doors, in an atmosphere of strict secrecy. To avoid leakage of information, members of the commission signed non-disclosure documents, which also worries many Orthodox Christians.

It is known that in order to ensure the objectivity of the examination, an autopsy of the king’s grave was also recently carried out AlexandraIII to take samples of biomaterial from his skull. Despite the fact that the procedure was carried out with all the rituals provided for by the Orthodox Church - memorial services and other prayers, the moral aspect of this action is questioned by Orthodox believers. And in general, anthropological and genetic examination is not welcomed by the people of God in the study of relics.

The Orthodox are afraid that they will end up getting results that are incompatible with their ideas, because on Ganina Yama, where tens of thousands of pilgrims flock every year on Tsar’s Day (July 17-18), miracles and healings occur. According to believers, this is where the grace of God is clearly present. In the event of a “transfer” of the holy place where the relics were found from Ganina Yama to Porosenkov Log, believers will be, in a sense, lost.

“Our religious procession will be divided in two - some of the pilgrims will go from the Church on the Blood to Ganina Yama, while the other will go to Porosenkov Log,” the Orthodox community sadly jokes.

In addition to the religious problem of analyzing the Ekaterinburg remains, it is of a legal and cultural nature. Many circumstances indicate that the murder of the royal family is an act of human ritual sacrifice. The four-digit inscription in the basement of the Ipatiev House is an encrypted message left in accordance with cabalistic rituals. However, for some reason the modern investigation diligently ignores this fact.

“In the lifetime edition of the book (by the first investigator in the case of the murder of the royal family) Nikolai Sokolov there is a subtle hint at the ritual nature of the crime in the description of the four-digit inscription in the Ipatiev basement. There is no such hint in the posthumous edition,” says the historian. Leonid Bolotin, who has been researching this topic for 20 years.

“After many years of studying materials about the regicide, I believe that the regicides used Jewish rituals, not Hasidic or Pharisees, but Sadducean rituals. And the postcard with a sacrificial rooster with the head of a sovereign in the hands of a Hasidic rabbi was created precisely by the Sadducees, the world bankers, in order to turn the arrows of regicide on the dark Hasidim.

The Ekaterinburg regicide rituals are fundamentally different from the Hasidic human sacrifices known from the Saratov, Velezh cases and other high-profile murders, which are described by the famous ethnographer, writer and military doctor IN AND. Dahl. According to Hasidic rituals, one should not destroy or hide the victim, but must leave it. As you know, they did not do this with the bodies of the royal martyrs - they were burned. This is rather reminiscent of the burning of human victims in ancient Carthage.

The Sadducees, for their conspiracy purposes, used the Phoenician (Carthaginian, Hebrew) alphabet, and the four-character inscription in the Ipatiev basement was made in Hebrew letters,” notes Bolotin.

It is worth adding that the criminal case of the murder of the royal family has now been resumed and expanded, and its ritual nature (raising little doubt among the Orthodox public) is one of the working versions.

“Ritual killings are happening all over the world. If someone denies them, he is simply an idiot who believes in the “official” media. There are known ritual murders of Christians by Jews who are now canonized by the church - for example, a baby GabrielBialystok and others. If we recognized the murder of royal martyrs as ritual, and with it the fact that Lenin-Blank And Trotsky-Bronstein involved in satanic rituals - this would completely change the situation in the understanding of the events of October 1917, in the political life of the country. We would see what forces were really behind the revolution, we would realize that they were far from atheists.

Look what is happening now - how many media outlets are involved in ensuring that these remains are recognized as royal relics. A huge amount of material and human resources are involved... and it is unlikely that all this was done in the interests of truth, in the interests of Russia », - the publicist is convinced IgorFriend.

Regarding the expert opinion on the remains, all citizens who respect the history of our country have every right to express doubts and ask questions - after all, we are talking about the holy relics of the Sovereign, canonized by the Church of the last Russian emperor. Fraudling the results of this study would be akin to a national crime.

“It is possible that another anti-church provocation awaits us. Most Orthodox Christians do not want to identify the Ekaterinburg remains with the royal ones. Problems in the examination began with a gross violation of the rules for examining bodies. They were dug in unsanitary conditions. The purity of the experiment could have been violated, the historian said PeterMultatuli at the scientific conference “Ekaterinburg remains: where is the truth and where is the fiction?”, which took place on June 18, 2017.

The very first investigation of the “white” investigator Sokolov, who was certainly interested in revealing the truth, showed that the bodies of the martyrs were destroyed using gasoline and sulfuric acid. There are witnesses, for example, a forester Rednikov, who discovered burnt bones, a finger that belonged to the empress Alexandra Fedorovna, sebaceous masses, fat left over from burning bodies. Witnesses saw 640 liters of gasoline, 9-10 pounds of sulfuric acid, brought by order of the Bolshevik Voikova, also involved in this case...

Supporters of the version about the authenticity of the Yekaterinburg remains rely primarily on a note from the murderer of the royal family, Yurovsky, who deliberately set everyone on the wrong trail. He told in detail where and when he buried the corpses of the royal family. Not only did he not try to hide this information, but he also disseminated it as much as possible. For what?

Judging by the actual data, on the night of July 17, Yurovsky remained in the Ipatiev House after the bodies of the murdered were taken away. He sent for people to clean up the blood in the room. It was not difficult for Yurovsky to destroy the remains of the corpses. The events in the forest were most likely completely invented by him.

Yurovsky was also not in Porosenkov Log on July 19 and did not bury the corpses. Many of the circumstances surrounding the creation of the “burial ground” of the royal family there are false.”

By the way, Peter Multatuli himself is the great-grandson of the cook Ivan Kharitonov, murdered in the Ipatiev House along with the royal family, and devoted a significant part of his life to discovering the truth about this fateful event.

At the same conference, a former investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation addressed the audience Vladimir Solovyov, to whom in the 90s of the last century was entrusted with the conduct of the criminal case into the murder of the royal family, which consisted of 26 volumes.

According to Solovyov’s official conclusion, the “ritual version” of the murder has been ruled out, and the investigation does not have any evidence of the involvement of Lenin or any other representative of the top leadership of the Bolsheviks in the destruction of the royal family. Allegedly, this was a private decision of the Ural Regional Council, which was later conveyed to the presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Leninist Council of People's Commissars. And the “burial of several people in the form of stacked skeletal remains,” found in 1991, certainly belongs to the royal family (only two bodies were burned).

Actually, Solovyov repeated this version in his speech. However, social activists and historians asked the investigator (who, by the way, is still under a subscription not to disclose documents in the case) a number of pressing questions:

“The procedure for removing the remains was grossly violated several times - is it possible to use such evidence in criminal proceedings? And many scientists consider the method of genetic testing itself unreliable - is there any unity on this issue?” - asked the religious expert Vladimir Semenko, but no clear answers were received.

Neither the leadership of the Russian Church nor representatives of the Romanov family came to the pathetic burial of the Ekaterinburg remains in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg in 1998. Moreover, then Patriarch Alexy II made Boris Yeltsin promise that he would not call the remains royal - and the president kept this word.

There are also purely scientific contradictions. Professor Lev Zhivotovsky, Head of the Center for Human DNA Identification, Institute of General Genetics. Vavilov, conducted his own independent examinations in two institutes in America, comparing the DNA of the queen’s sister Elizaveta Fedorovna with the remains found in Piglet Log. Analysis showed that they have nothing in common. A similar result was obtained by DNA analysis of the remains considered to be those of Nicholas II, with the genes of his own nephew Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov.

Soon after this, a criminologist from Japan unexpectedly visited the Moscow Patriarchate for Alexy II Tatsuo Nagai, Director of the Forensic Science Department at Kitasato University . He announced that the analysis of sweat from the lining of Nicholas II’s frock coat and the blood data remaining in Japan after the assassination attempt on the emperor when he was Tsarevich coincided with the result of an analysis of blood samples from the Tsar’s nephew Tikhon Kulikovsky-Romanov and did not coincide with the “Ekaterinburg remains.” So here, at least, “not everything is so simple.”

Today it is obvious that new facts have emerged in this complicated case, otherwise it would not have been resumed with the involvement of such powerful resources. Just what these facts are - alas, no one knows, which gives rise to many new conjectures.

Already in November of this year, a detailed conclusion of the commission on the issue of the identity of the Yekaterinburg remains is expected. Around the same time, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church will take place, which will issue its verdict. Whether it will become the cause of another schism in Russia or, on the contrary, will strengthen the Orthodox faith - time and the reaction of the people will tell. “What determines the holiness of relics - God’s grace or DNA chains?” - believers asked ironically at a conference on the royal remains...

The question is rather rhetorical, but the subtext is clear - modern examinations should not become a screen for distorting the truth. According to the Orthodox community, the end to this matter will be put not by an investigation hidden from everyone, but by an open scientific and historical discussion.

Varvara Gracheva

The Russian Orthodox Church still does not recognize that the “Ekaterinburg remains” may belong to the royal family it canonized. Perhaps soon the Russian Orthodox Church will begin to consider them holy relics.

The Russian Orthodox Church promises to publish the first results of the examination of the “Ekaterinburg remains”, presumably belonging to the family of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, in the summer of 2017, if the Investigative Committee gives consent to this, TASS reports with reference to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the secretary of the Patriarchal Commission for the study of the results of the examination of Bishop Tikhon of Yegoryevsk (Shevkunova).

On June 14, at the Danilov Monastery (Patriarchal Residence), a meeting was held under the chairmanship of Patriarch Kirill on the issue of establishing the identity of the remains found in 1993 in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg. The meeting was attended by a delegation of the Investigative Committee headed by Alexander Bastrykin and members of a special church commission headed by Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsanuphius.

Bastrykin told Patriarch Kirill about the interim results of the identification of the remains - about the results of the examinations ordered as part of the criminal case.

“After the meeting, the members of the Patriarchal Commission decided to ask the Investigative Committee for permission to publish the investigation materials, the examination of which has been completed,” Bishop Tikhon told the agency. “If permission is received, it will be this summer,” he added, answering a question about the timing of the possible publication of the examination results.

“There was so much interesting in the reports and messages, in the debates and presentations that, even if I wanted to, I couldn’t retell it in a short interview: the meeting with the patriarch lasted about five hours,” the bishop shared. He explained that he has no right to divulge the secrets of the investigation.

Bishop Tikhon noted that in the process of investigation, examinations and research, previously unknown facts were discovered, and quite a few - that’s all he can say at the moment. But when the consent of the Investigative Committee is received, a constructive discussion on new and previously available facts and versions will begin in a wide variety of forms, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church promised.

The last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, abdicated the throne on March 2, 1917. Together with his family, he was shot on the night of June 16-17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg by decision of the Ural Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies, controlled by the Bolsheviks.

In 1993, near Yekaterinburg, in the Ganina Yama area, remains were found, presumably belonging to the emperor and his relatives. Russian authorities officially recognized the discovered bodies as the remains of the royal family. They were buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II and his family, after which the debate about the authenticity of the remains intensified. Indeed, if confirmed, the remains should be revered as holy relics. However, the Russian Orthodox Church did not find sufficient grounds to recognize the remains of the canonized Romanovs as relics.

In order to conduct a complex of examinations, including historical, genetic, anthropological for the indisputable identification of the dead, in 2015 a criminal case was opened regarding the death of members of the family of the Russian imperial house of Romanov and the remains of Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna were exhumed in the Peter and Paul Cathedral of St. Petersburg .

Also for examination, blood samples of Emperor Nicholas II’s grandfather, Emperor Alexander II, who died during a terrorist attack in 1881, were taken from his uniform, stored in the Hermitage. After all the examinations are completed, the question of the authenticity of the remains will be submitted to the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

According to Bishop Tikhon, the commission will ask the Investigative Committee for permission for permanent and external experts, even before the end of the investigation, to conduct interviews and comments on questions and topics for which answers have already been received, in order to promote public discussion.

“Only the conciliar mind of the Orthodox Church is authorized to make a judgment regarding church veneration or non-veneration of the “Ekaterinburg remains” as relics. Before this, all other judgments can certainly take place, since research continues today, and therefore a very important discussion continues. This can only welcome," Bishop Tikhon explained.

At the same time, many believers and some experts adhere to the version that the bodies of those killed were completely destroyed.

On Monday, November 27, 2017, a conference “The case of the murder of the Royal Family: new examinations and materials. Discussion” dedicated to the study of the results of the study of the remains found near Yekaterinburg.

The conference was headed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. The conference was attended by members, bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, and invited experts.

Opening address by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

Opening speech by Bishop Tikhon of Yegoryevsk

Marina Viktorovna Molodtsova,
Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the First Investigation Department of the Main Directorate for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
“On the shortcomings of the previous investigation and the need to resume the investigation in the fall of 2015. On the progress of the criminal investigation and the results of individual forensic examinations"

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Candidate of Biological Sciences, senior researcher at the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov
“Preliminary results of a comprehensive forensic anthropological examination”

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Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Head for Scientific Work of the Bureau of Forensic Medicine
Health Committee of the Government of the Leningrad Region
“Results of the forensic medical examination. On the possibility of complete burning (destruction) of bodies under given conditions, gunshot wounds on the remains"

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Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Russian Government Prize, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
“Characteristics of the dentofacial system and X-ray cephalometric analysis of the structure of the facial skeleton in the “Ekaterinburg remains” (forensic dental examination)”

Sergei Alekseevich Nikitin,
doctor, forensic expert, chief specialist in the field of personal identification and anthropological reconstruction, Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of the Moscow Department of Health
“Expert studies of skulls No. 7 and No. 4, as well as teeth discovered in the 2007 burial.”

Alexey Sergeevich Abramov,
Candidate of Medical Sciences, Senior Expert of the Department of Medical and Biological Research of the Directorate for the Organization of Expert and Forensic Activities of the Main Directorate of Forensic Science of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
“Expert research in 3D format of Skull No. 7 and Skull No. 4, as well as analysis of available data on the burning of bodies under various circumstances”

Viktor Nikolaevich Zvyagin,
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Medical and Forensic Identification of the Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
"Research on Burnt Remains"

Discussion and discussion of previous reports
regarding anthropological issues

Alexander Borisovich Bezborodov,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Acting Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Director of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities
"The fate of the remains of the Romanov family as a political problem in the Soviet Union"

Vasily Stepanovich Khristoforov,
Doctor of Law, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, former head of the Department of Registration and Archival Funds of the Federal Security Service of Russia
“Archival materials of the FSB of Russia about the “Ekaterinburg events”: from versions to evidence”

Lyudmila Anatolyevna Lykova,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief specialist of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
“Actions of participants in the “Ekaterinburg events” on Ganina Yama and Porosyonkov Log”

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Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Auxiliary and Special Historical Disciplines at the Institute of History and Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities
“Historical reliability of the investigation materials by N.A. Sokolov and the validity of the conclusions made by him and other authors"

Final discussion

November 27, 2017, 09:35

According to official history, on the night of July 16-17, 1918, Nicholas II, along with his wife and children, was shot. After opening the burial and identifying the remains in 1998, they were reburied in the tomb of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. However, then the Russian Orthodox Church did not confirm their authenticity.

“I cannot exclude that the church will recognize the royal remains as authentic if convincing evidence of their authenticity is discovered and if the examination is open and honest,” Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said in July of this year. In December, all conclusions of the Investigative Committee and the ROC commission will be considered by the Council of Bishops. It is he who will decide on the church’s attitude towards the Yekaterinburg remains.

Almost a detective story with the remains

As is known, the Russian Orthodox Church did not participate in the burial of the remains of the royal family in 1998, explaining this by the fact that the church is not sure whether the original remains of the royal family are buried. The Russian Orthodox Church refers to a book by Kolchak investigator Nikolai Sokolov, who concluded that all the bodies were burned. Some of the remains collected by Sokolov at the burning site are kept in Brussels, in the Church of St. Job the Long-Suffering, and they have not been examined.

Researchers were first led to the place where the remains were found (on the Old Koptyakovskaya Road) by a note from Yurovsky, in which he describes in detail where and how he buried the corpses of the royal family. But why did the malicious killer give a detailed report to his descendants, where should they look for evidence of the crime? Moreover, a number of modern historians put forward the version that Yurovsky belonged to an occult sect and was certainly not interested in the further veneration of holy relics by believers. If he wanted to confuse the investigation in this way, then he definitely achieved his goal - the case of the murder of Nicholas II and his family under the symbolic number 18666 has been shrouded in a halo of secrecy for many years and contains a lot of contradictory information

Is Yurovsky’s note, on the basis of which the authorities were looking for a burial place, genuine? And so, 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. This grave is clearly marked there. That is, the note is a priori false. Pokrovsky was the first director of Rosarkhiv. Stalin used it when it was necessary to rewrite history. He has a famous expression: “History is politics facing the past.” Since Yurovsky’s note is a fake, it would be impossible to locate the burial using it.

And now, in the coming year of the 100th anniversary of the execution of the Romanov family, the Russian Orthodox Church has been tasked with giving a final answer to all the dark execution sites near Yekaterinburg. To obtain a final answer, research has been carried out for several years under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church. Again, historians, geneticists, graphologists, pathologists and other specialists are rechecking the facts, powerful scientific forces and the forces of the prosecutor's office are again involved, and all these actions again take place under a thick veil of secrecy.

But at the same time, no one remembers that after the capture of Yekaterinburg by the Whites, three White commissions in turn made an unambiguous conclusion - there was no execution. Neither the Reds nor the Whites wanted to disclose this information. The Bolsheviks were interested in the tsar's money, and Kolchak declared himself the Supreme Ruler of Russia, which could not happen with a living sovereign. Before investigator Sokolov, the only investigator who published a book about the execution of the royal family, there were investigators Malinovsky, Nametkin (his archive was burned along with his house), Sergeev (removed from the case and killed). The investigative commissions cited facts and evidence that refuted the execution. But they were soon forgotten, since the 4th commission of Sokolov and Dieteriks essentially fabricated the case of the execution of the Romanovs. They did not provide any facts to prove their theory, just as the investigators did not provide any facts in the 90s.

In the fall of 2015, investigators resumed the investigation into the death of members of the Romanov dynasty. Currently, genetic identification research is being conducted by four independent groups of scientists. Two of them are foreign, working directly with the Russian Orthodox Church. At the beginning of July 2017, the secretary of the church commission for studying the results of the study of the remains found near Yekaterinburg, Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Yegoryevsk, said: a large number of new circumstances and new documents have been discovered. For example, Sverdlov’s order to execute Nicholas II was found. In addition, based on the results of recent research, criminologists have confirmed that the remains of the Tsar and Tsarina belong to them, since a mark was suddenly found on the skull of Nicholas II, which is interpreted as a mark from a saber blow he received while visiting Japan. As for the queen, dentists identified her using the world's first porcelain veneers on platinum pins. Currently, examinations are also being carried out to establish the authenticity of the remains found in 2007, possibly of Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria.

Although, if you open the conclusion of the commission, written before the burial in 1998, it says: the bones of the sovereign’s skull are so destroyed that the characteristic callus cannot be found. The same conclusion noted severe damage to the teeth of Nikolai’s presumed remains due to periodontal disease, since this person had never been to the dentist. This confirms that it was not the tsar who was shot, since the records of the Tobolsk dentist whom Nikolai contacted remained. In addition, no explanation has yet been found for the fact that the height of the skeleton of “Princess Anastasia” is 13 centimeters greater than her lifetime height. Shevkunov did not say a word about genetic examination, and this despite the fact that genetic studies in 2003 conducted by Russian and American specialists showed that the genome of the body of the alleged empress and her sister Elizaveta Fedorovna did not match, which means there was no relationship.

In addition, in the museum of the city of Otsu (Japan) there are things left after the policeman wounded Nicholas II. They contain biological material that can be examined. Based on them, Japanese geneticists from Tatsuo Nagai’s group proved that the DNA of the remains of “Nicholas II” from near Yekaterinburg (and his family) does not 100% match the DNA of biomaterials from Japan. The publication by Japanese geneticists of the results of a study of human remains, which official Russian authorities recognized as the remains of the family of Nikolai Romanov, caused a lot of noise. After analyzing the DNA structures of the Ekaterinburg remains and comparing them with the DNA analysis of the brother of Nicholas the Second Grand Duke Georgiy Romanov, the nephew of Emperor Tikhon Kulikovsky-Romanov, and DNA taken from particles of sweat from the imperial clothes, professor of the Tokyo Institute of Microbiology Tatsuo Nagai came to the conclusion that the remains , discovered near Yekaterinburg, do not belong to Nicholas II and members of his family. The results of this examination showed the obvious incompetence of the entire government commission, which was created under the leadership of Boris Nemtsov. Tatsuo Nagai's conclusions are a very strong argument that is difficult to refute.

There are also the results of a genetic examination of the President of the International Association of Forensic Physicians, Mr. Bonte from Düsseldorf. According to German scientists, these are the remains of the Filatovs, doubles of Nicholas II. Nicholas II had seven families of doubles. The system of doubles began with Alexander the First. Historically, it is known that there were two attempts on his life. Both times he remained alive because his doubles died. Alexander II had no doubles. Alexander the Third had doubles after the famous train crash in Borki. Nicholas II had doubles 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 travel. And so the same departure of all three carriages took place. It is unknown which of them Nicholas II sat in. Documents about this lie in the archives of the third department of the Office of His Imperial Majesty. The Bolsheviks, having captured the archive in 1917, naturally received the names of all the doubles.

Perhaps, from the remains of the Filatovs in 1946, the “remains of the royal family” were created? It is known that in 1946, a resident of Denmark, Anna Andersen, tried to get royal gold. Starting the second process to recognize herself as Anastasia. Her first trial did not end in anything; it lasted until the mid-30s. Then she paused and in 1946 filed a lawsuit again. Stalin apparently decided that it was better to make a grave where “Anastasia” would lie than to explain these issues to the West.

Further, the very place of execution of the Romanovs, the Ipatiev house, was demolished in 1977. In the mid-70s of the 20th century, the USSR government became very concerned about the increased attention of foreigners to the house of engineer Ipatiev. In 1978, two round dates were planned at once: the 110th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas II and the 60th anniversary of his assassination. In order to avoid the excitement around Ipatiev’s house, KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov made a proposal to demolish it. The final decision to destroy the mansion was made by Boris Yeltsin, who then held the post of first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the Communist Party.

Ipatiev's house, which stood for almost 90 years, was razed to the ground in September 1977. To do this, the destroyers needed 3 days, a bulldozer and a ball. The official pretext for the destruction of the building was the planned reconstruction of the city center. But it is possible that this is not the case at all - the microparticles that meticulous researchers could find could already at that time refute the legend about the execution of the royal family, and give other versions of events and their persons involved! Then a genetic analysis, albeit inaccurate, had already appeared.

Financial background

As you know, in the Baring brothers' bank there is gold, the personal gold of Nicholas II weighing five and a half tons. There is a long-term study by Professor Vladlen Sirotkin (MGIMO) “Foreign Gold of Russia” (Moscow, 2000), where the gold and other holdings of the Romanov family, accumulated in the accounts of Western banks, are also estimated at no less than 400 billion dollars, and together with investments of more than 2 trillion dollars! In the absence of heirs from the Romanov side, the closest relatives turn out to be members of the English royal family... Whose interests may be behind many events of the 19th–21st centuries... But the bank cannot give them this gold until Nicholas II is declared dead. According to UK law, the absence of a corpse and the absence of documents on the wanted list means that the person is alive.

By the way, it is not clear (or, on the contrary, it is clear) for what reasons the royal house of England denied asylum to the Romanov family three times. And this despite the fact that the mothers of George V and Nicholas II were sisters. In surviving correspondence, Nicholas II and George V call each other “Cousin Nicky” and “Cousin Georgie” - they were cousins, almost peers, spent a lot of time together and were very similar in appearance.

At that time, England held 440 tons of gold from Russia’s gold reserves and 5.5 tons of Nicholas II’s personal gold as collateral for military loans. Now think about it: if the royal family died, then who would the gold go to? To the closest relatives! Is this the reason why cousin Georgie refused to accept cousin Nicky's family? To obtain gold, its owners had to die. Officially. And now all this needs to be connected with the burial of the royal family, which will officially testify that the owners of untold wealth are dead.

Versions of life after death

First version: the royal family was shot near Yekaterinburg, and its remains, with the exception of Alexei and Maria, were reburied in St. Petersburg. The remains of these children were found in 2007, all examinations were carried out on them, and they will apparently be buried on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. If this version is confirmed, for accuracy it is necessary to once again identify all the remains and repeat all examinations, especially genetic and pathological anatomical ones.

The second version: the royal family was not shot, but was scattered throughout Russia and all family members died a natural death, having lived their lives in Russia or abroad, while a family of doubles was shot in Yekaterinburg.

The surviving members of the royal family were observed by people from the KGB, where a special department was created for this purpose, dissolved during perestroika. The archives of this department have been preserved. The royal family was saved by Stalin - the royal family was evacuated from Yekaterinburg through Perm to Moscow and came into the possession of Trotsky, then the People's Commissar of Defense. To further save the royal family, Stalin carried out an entire operation, stealing it from Trotsky’s people and taking them to Sukhumi, to a specially built house next to the former house of the royal family. From there, all family members were distributed to different places, Maria and Anastasia were taken to the Glinsk Hermitage (Sumy region), then Maria was transported to the Nizhny Novgorod region, where she died of illness on May 24, 1954. Anastasia subsequently married Stalin’s personal guard and lived very secluded on a small farm, died

June 27, 1980 in the Volgograd region. The eldest daughters, Olga and Tatyana, were sent to the Seraphim-Diveevo convent - the empress was settled not far from the girls. But they did not live here for long. Olga, having traveled through Afghanistan, Europe and Finland, settled in Vyritsa, Leningrad Region, where she died on January 19, 1976. Tatyana lived partly in Georgia, partly in the Krasnodar Territory, was buried in the Krasnodar Territory, and died on September 21, 1992. Alexey and his mother lived at their dacha, then Alexey was transported to Leningrad, where they “did” a biography on him, and the whole world recognized him as party and Soviet leader Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (Stalin sometimes called him Tsarevich in front of everyone). Nicholas II lived and died in Nizhny Novgorod (December 22, 1958), and the queen died in the village of Starobelskaya, Lugansk region on April 2, 1948 and was subsequently reburied in Nizhny Novgorod, where she and the emperor have a common grave. Three daughters of Nicholas II, besides Olga, had children. N.A. Romanov communicated with I.V. Stalin, and the wealth of the Russian Empire was used to strengthen the power of the USSR...