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Various Romanov impostors claimed to be members of the Romanov family, which drew media attention away from activities of Soviet Russia. [9] In 1979, amateur sleuth Alexander Avdonin discovered the burial site. [13] The Soviet Union did not acknowledge the existence of these remains publicly until 1989 during the glasnost period. [14]
The House of Romanov [b] ... In 1991 the grave site was excavated and the bodies were given a state funeral under the nascent democracy of post-Soviet Russia, and ...
Pages in category "Burial sites of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Alexander Nikolayevich Avdonin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Авдонин; born 10 June 1932 [1]) is a Russian who was the first known person, in 1979, to begin exhuming the grave of the seven murdered Romanovs and four members of their household.
Though they died over a century ago, the burial of the Romanovs remains a controversy.
The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Eastern Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last imperial family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei – by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Nicholas II with his family. (left to right) Olga, Maria, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexei and Tatiana. Ganina Yama (Russian: Га́нина Я́ма, "Ganya’s Pit") was a 6 ft (2 m) deep pit [1] in the Four Brothers mine near the village of Koptyaki, 15 km (10 miles) north from Yekaterinburg.
Gravemarkers of the Romanov family members. The first interment was that of Tsarina Praskovia Saltykova, the wife of Tsar Ivan V, on 24 October 1723. [1] On Peter's orders the remains of his sister, Natalya Alexeyevna, and his infant son Peter Petrovich, who had originally been buried in the monastery's Lazarevsky Church, were transferred to the burial vault. [1]