Rumor Disappointingly Put Down

[kanedax]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/11/czar.children/index.htmlRead more... )

Comments

[theophania_79]

this really bummed me out today too :/

[kanedax]

I read a book about Nicholas's family and their fall, and it really depressed me to read about their last days and the details of how they were killed. They tacked on these bright glimmers of hope at the end of the book, so it sucks to know that, yeah, there was no bright glimmer after all.

[theophania_79]

their death story makes my sad too. have you ever seen the photographs that one of the daughters used to take in the palace? they all looked so jolly.

[kanedax]

Yeah, there were a bunch of them in the book (The Last Tsar, by Edvard Radzinsky), taken both before their capture and during their confinement before they were killed.

[father_turtle]

I don't know, though. Maybe those are the remains of other Romanovs that were placed there? Many graves have been plundered or just plain desecrated, and the Romanov line--especially Nicholas and his family as the last of that line--certainly would have been prime targets for desecration in the eyes of those who deposed them if those bones were genuine. I find it hard to believe that the Nicholas Romanov family remains wouldn't have been moved--either be desecrators or by those who wanted to preserve them.

[mickawber]

Oh, come on. Never underestimate the human addiction to stories!

Someone will come up with a theory that makes the survival of a Romanov heir work. Say.... one of the bodies found was actually Alexander's bastard child by a maid. Or something.