Rumors of Maria nikolayev's survival and the discovery of the grave

According to the records of some guards, they may have a chance to rescue one or more survivors. Yurovski asked the guards to come to his office and hand over the items stolen after the assassination of the Tsar's family. It is said that the victims' bodies have been abandoned in the corridors of trucks, basements or houses for some time. Some guards didn't take part in the murder because they sympathized with the Grand Duchess. They stayed in the basement to see the body.

It is said that at least two grand duchesses survived the first attack on the royal family. When the guards took the Grand Duchess to the waiting truck, Maria and anastasia were "sitting up and screaming", and then they were attacked again. It is said that Archduke Maria actually survived and was not killed. A man named Alex Blimeyer claimed to be Maria's grandson "Prince Alex Drew de Bourbon-Conte romanov-Luc". He said that Maria fled to Romania, got married and had a daughter: Olga Beata. Then it is said that Olga Bita got married and gave birth to a son named "Prince Alex". 197 1 year, the Dolgoruki family and the alliance of Russian noble descendants were sued by the Belgian court, and he was finally sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. Two young women claimed to be Maria and anastasia respectively, and said that they were taken in by a priest on Wula Mountain in 19 19, where they became nuns until 1964. The names on their tombstones are Maria and Anna Stasija Nikolaevna.

Gabriel Luis Duval wrote a book "A Princess of the Tsar's Family", claiming that the grandmother "Grandma Alina" who brought him up might be the Grand Duchess Maria. According to Duval, Grandma Arena married a man named Frank and immigrated to South Africa to live with her family until her death in 1969. Her body was later exhumed, but the DNA condition was not good, and it was impossible to determine whether it matched the royal DNA. Most historians claim that Maria or other members of the royal family survived the murder. Louis mountbatten, Admiral of the fleet, England, the first Earl of mountbatten in Myanmar, kept a picture of Maria at his bedside in memory of her until he was assassinated in 1979.

199 1 year, several bodies were dug up from graves in the Woods outside Yekaterinburg. Historians believe that these bodies belong to Nicholas II's family and their servants. The cemetery was discovered ten years ago, but the news was deliberately concealed to avoid being known by the * * * production party government that ruled the Soviet Union at that time. After the excavation, the digger found that 1 1 body should have been buried (Nicholas II, Queen Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexei, four female archduchesses: Olga, tatyana, Maria and anastasia, their family doctor Potkin, and servant Alexei troup (аекс According to the investigation of Dr. William Mapes, a forensic expert, Anna Stasija's body did not appear in this cemetery. However, Russian scientists questioned this and thought that the body of the Grand Duchess Maria was missing. These Russian scientists used computer programs to compare anastasia's photos with the skulls of these bodies in the grave to determine anastasia's identity. They estimate the height and width of these skulls to infer whose body is missing, but American scientists think this method is not accurate. Russian forensic experts believe that any skull like Maria has no gap between the front teeth.

American scientists believe that the missing body should be Anna Stasija, because none of the female bones show signs of underage, such as immature clavicle, hidden wisdom teeth and immature back spine. These scientists expect to find it in girls aged 65,438+07. When these royal remains were buried in 1998, a body about 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) high was buried in the cemetery in the name of anastasia, but photos taken with her sisters six months before her death showed that Maria was several inches taller than anastasia and taller than her sister Olga. But the height of bones can only be estimated, because some bones have been cut off and some bones have been lost. Because several skulls are missing teeth and most of the jaws, Russian scientists think that anastasia, the remains in the grave, but not Maria, has no gap between the front teeth of any skull like Maria, and American scientists have also found the same problem.

Scientists extracted mitochondrial DNA from these bones and compared it with relatives of Nicholas II, including relatives of Prins Carl Philip in Hesse and North Rhine. Scientists have found that the mitochondrial DNA of these bones is consistent with that of royal relatives. Scientists believe that mitochondrial DNA is enough to prove that these bones belong to Nicholas II's family and their servants. Yakov Yurovski and the superior officer who supervised the massacre wrote the report "Yurovski Notes", which recorded that they moved two bodies to a secret area and burned them. If the White Army finds this cemetery, it will doubt whether these bones belong to the Nicholas II family because of the wrong number of bones. Some forensic experts believe that it is impossible for Yurovski's men to burn the two bodies so thoroughly in such a short time. In the next few decades, many people still failed to find the cremation site or the bodies of the two missing members of the royal family.

However, on August 23, 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced that two partially charred bones were found in a bonfire near Yekaterinburg, and the location was consistent with that described in Yurovsky's memoirs. Archaeologists say that these bones belong to a boy between 10 and 13 and a young woman between 18 and 23. Maria was 19 years old and 1 month when she was killed, while her sister Anna Stasija 18 years old and 1 month. Alexei will be 14 years old in two weeks. Maria's elder sister Olga and her second sister tatyana are 22 years old and 2 1 year old respectively. The archaeologist found fragments of a container containing sulfuric acid, nails, metal rods belonging to a wooden box and bullets of different calibers near two bodies. "These bones were found by metal detection and metal rods."

Russian court scientists began testing in late February, 65438, and announced on October 22, 65438/kloc-0: After preliminary testing, these bones most likely belonged to Crown Prince Alexei and one of his sisters. After DNA testing, they announced on April 30, 2008 that these bodies were confirmed as Crown Prince Alexei and a young woman, and Russian scientists confirmed that the young woman was Maria. Edward Rosell, a government official 900 miles east of Moscow, said that tests conducted by American laboratories had confirmed that the fragments belonged to Alexei and Maria. The results of DNA tests released in March 2009 confirmed that the two bodies found in 2007 belonged to Vicki Roman Alexei and an archduchess. Rosell said: "This confirms that the bodies belong to these children, and we have now found all the members of the royal family."