According to the stop principle

The examination of the remains of the children of Emperor Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexy and Grand Duchess Mary, ends. This was stated by Patriarch Kirill at a meeting with Prince Dimitri Romanovich, a descendant of Nicholas I and the eldest in the Romanov family, TASS reports .

“We agreed with the country's leadership that all the examinations need to be reused, because, from our point of view, what happened in the 90s, happened with violations. And in order for the Church to accept the results of the examination, the examination itself should not be impeccable, there should be no suspicion of anyone. These examinations are completed at the moment, they are undergoing in several laboratories abroad,” the patriarch said.

Cyril assured that the Russian Orthodox Church respect scientists, "but in order to have no doubt, we ask them to not in a hurry so that they would do everything as it should." Many people, "to whom this topic is close, who consider it important, share this approach," said the Primate.

The Patriarch also said that the examination is carried out by the “blind method” - experts do not know which remains specifically belong to the samples. “I have a list compiled in the presence of other people,“ we know in which vessels what remains, ”said the Patriarch.“ If there is confirmation that there are really coincidences, and we are talking about relatives, then we will have the basis with confidence in this examination. ”

In April, the chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church Vladimir Legoyda said that the currently conducted genetic study of the alleged remains of the family members of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II found near Yekaterinburg will be more accurate than the previous ones . "The study, which is now in the best laboratories in the world, will be more serious than what happened before, will be a more thorough result," Legooda said. He recalled that we are talking about a complex of examinations, including historical, genetic and anthropological research. At the same time, he emphasized that the Russian Orthodox Church "is not going to adjust the results of the examinations or ask someone to adjust the results to some time."

In July last year, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at the request of the Russian Orthodox Church, ordered to create an interdepartmental group for the study and burial of the remains of children of Nicholas II Alexei and Mary. Now these remains are in the State Archive of Russia.

On September 23, the TFR resumed the investigation in the case of the execution of Nicholas II and his family and retinue. As part of the investigation in the Peter and Paul Cathedral of St. Petersburg, an exhumation of the remains of the emperor and empress was held. Upon withdrawal of samples, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church were present.

The convened working group proposed to conduct additional identification studies, having studied objects previously inaccessible to the Investigative Committee. These are the remains of the sister of the Empress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fedorovna, who are in Jerusalem, as well as the blood samples of Alexander II, preserved on his uniform.

On November 11, the TFR reported that the genetic analysis confirmed the authenticity of the remains of Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fedorovna. The coincidence of DNA sections from samples taken from the jaw and the vertebra of the emperor in September, with the samples received earlier in the study of the shirt of Nicholas II with traces of his blood, was proved. In the sample from a fragment of the lower jaw of the skeleton of the Empress, areas of mitochondrial DNA were revealed, coinciding with the options for the descendants of the English Queen Victoria on the maternal line. The empress was the granddaughter of the Queen.

On November 27, in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, experts opened the sarcophagus of the Russian emperor Alexander III and took samples of his remains for a genetic study. DNA samples of Alexander III will be used to prove the authenticity of the remains of Nicholas II and his children.

The case of the Romanov execution, excited in 1993, was closed and resumed several times. The last time the proceedings were terminated in January 2011 .