From an article posted on AOL News:
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Nov. 25) -- On the outskirts of this burly industrial center, off a road like any other, on a nowhere scrap of land -- here unfolded the final act of one of the last century’s most momentous events. A short way through a clearing, toward a cluster of birch trees, the killers deposited their victims’ bodies, which had been mutilated, burned and doused with acid to mask their origins...
Eleven people were said to have been killed that day in July 1918 on Lenin’s orders. Just nine sets of remains were dug up here and then authenticated using DNA. The remains of the czar’s son and heir, Aleksei, and one daughter, whose identity is still not absolutely clear, were missing.
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The identity of the mystery daughter, as has always been speculated, might be that of youngest daughter Anastasia. There have been countless women claiming to be Princess Anastasia - none was ever confirmed. It was doubtful, despite romantic rumors, that fragile Prince Alexei - being afflicted with hemophilia - would have survived. The remains of the previously confirmed members of the royal family were buried at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg in 1998.
(Photo by Sisse Brimberg from National Geographic.com)
On a barely related note (barely meaning "hardly at all"), if fashion and "lifestyle" magazines are to be believed, it looks like matroishka dolls and Russian folk art (think black lacquer and faberge) are the next hot thing in home decor...and I couldn't be more excited. Just remember - you heard it here first. Unless you read In Style. In which case, you just got confirmation of a pending design trend here...first.
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