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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 ...
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 Romanov" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Though they died over a century ago, the burial of the Romanovs remains a controversy.
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.
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.
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 ]
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.