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The grand ducal vault is a small domed structure next to the Peter and Paul Cathedral. The Grand Ducal Burial Vault (Russian: Великокняжеская усыпальница) is the purpose-built mausoleum of the Grand Dukes and Duchesses of Russia in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
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]
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 .
Though they died over a century ago, the burial of the Romanovs remains a controversy.
In the early 20th century two Romanov princesses were allowed to marry Russian high noblemen – whereas, until the 1850s, practically all marriages had been with German princelings. [11] A gathering of members of the Romanov family in 1892, at the summer military manoeuvres in Krasnoye Selo. His son Alexander III succeeded Alexander II. This ...
In the 1990s, it was suggested that Maria might have been the grand duchess whose remains were missing from the Romanov grave that was discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia and exhumed in 1991. [3] Further remains were discovered in 2007, and DNA analysis subsequently proved that the entire Imperial family had been murdered in 1918. [ 4 ]
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]
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.