After 90 years of uncertainty, scientists proved that the entire family of Russian Czar Nicholas II were executed in 1918 leaving no surviving bloodline to the Ramanov family.
The remnants of the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and Crown Prince Alexi were found in 2007 outside of the town of Yekaterinburg where the rest of the family was murdered in 1918. The czar’s children were 19 and 13 respectively at the time of their murder.
The current head of the Russian Imperial House is also called the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and she came to Russia from Madrid to visit places important to the story of the missing Romanovs. "Of course, as a head of the Imperial House, nothing would please me more than (if) these remains would finally be those that we’ve been looking for so many years," she said to CNN.
Authorities found the bodies of Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their three daughters in 1991 about 230 feet from where they found Grand Duchess Maria and Prince Alexi in 2007. The identification of the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and her brother Alexi prove that the last members of a centuries-long imperial dynasty really did die 90 years ago.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/17/russia.anniversary/
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