Homicid =T.S.O.=Death

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Nicholas II, sentenced to death by the Ural Soviet, was shot along with his entire family in Yekaterinburg in July 1918. His body was then dismembered and burned (in flames or with sulfuric acid) by Bolsheviks; the bodies are now buried in St. Petersburg, in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. In 1991, the bodies of Nicholas II, his wife, three of their five children, and four of their servants were found and exhumed (although some questioned the authenticity of these bones despite DNA evidence). Since two bodies were missing, many believed that two of the young Romanovs had mysteriously survived, and there was much debate as to who they might be. A Russian scientist, using photographic superimposition, determined that they were Maria and Alexei, while an American scientist later, comparing dental, vertebral, and other remains, stated that the bodies of Anastasia and Alexei were missing. In particular, much mystery has surrounded the fate of Anastasia. The Church on the Blood was recently built on the site of the Ipatiev House. After years of controversy, Nicholas II and his family were canonized as passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000: in Orthodoxy, a passion bearer is a saint in all respects, but martyred for non-religious reasons. In September 2006, Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III, was buried in the same cathedral next to her husband: having fled Russia during the revolution, she had spent her final years in exile in her native Denmark, being initially buried in the cathedral. The transfer of his remains was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies, including a mass celebrated in St. Isaac's Church by the Patriarch. Present were Princes Dmitry and Nicholas Romanov, Prince Mikhail Andreyevich (brother of the painter Andrey Andreyevich), and Princess Ekaterina Ivanovna, daughter of Prince Ivan Konstantinovich Romanov. The latter, then 90 years old and dying the following year in Montevideo, was the last member of the imperial family born in Roskilde Cathedral before the fall of the dynasty and was ultimately to become the last undisputed living member of the Imperial House. On 23 August 2007, Sergei Pogorelov, speaking from Yekaterinburg, declared that "bones found in a scorched earth area near Yekaterinburg belong to a boy and a girl of approximately the same age as Alexei and one of his two younger sisters." Local scientist Nikolai Nevolin declared that a test on the remains would soon be launched. On 28 September, regional authorities announced that the probability that the bones belong to Nicholas II's two sons "is very high."On 30 April 2008, following the publication of DNA tests by the US laboratory that had examined the remains found that summer, the bodies of Grand Duchess Maria and Tsarevich Alexei were definitively identified. On the same day, Russian authorities officially announced that the entire family had been identified.