Burnt or hidden? The fate of the remains of Emperor Nicholas II and his family

This monograph is an attempt at a comprehensive study of the fate of the remains of Nicholas II and his family who tragically died in Yekaterinburg in 1918. Data from genetic, forensic (anthropological) and dental examinations of the so-called are analyzed in detail. "Ekaterinburg remains". The materials and results of the examinations are correlated with known historical data and material evidence in the case, as a result of which not only the belonging of the “Ekaterinburg remains” to members of the royal family and their servants is confirmed, but also a fundamentally new conclusion is made about the absence of those of Nicholas II among the discovered skeletons. The version of the destruction of the remains of the last emperor and his two children - Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria - at the Ganina Yama mine, as well as the partial falsification of the burial in Piglet Log near Yekaterinburg is substantiated.

The book is aimed at a wide readership - forensic experts, anthropologists, dentists, historians, source scientists, archivists, as well as all those interested circumstances of the death of Nicholas II and his family.

About the author.  Knyazev Mark Andreevich – Candidate of Historical Sciences, junior researcher at Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky. Specialist in the political history of Russia at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. and history of the Civil War in the Urals (1917–1921), author of more than 50 scientific publications, incl. 2 monographs.