V. Fedorsenko, “‘Materials from the Execution:’ The House of Romanoff is Given the Report on the Closing of the Case of the Murder of the Royal Family.” [“Postanovlenie o zakrytii dela po ubiistvu tsarskoi sem’i peredano domu Romanovykh”], in Rossiiskaia gazeta. Federal’nyi vypusk, October 28, 2011. № 5619 (243)

Yesterday, the Senior Investigator of the Main Criminal Division of the Investigative Commission of Russia, Wladimir Solov’ev, presented to the representatives of the House of Romanoff a copy of the Report upon which the decision was made to halt all investigations into the murder of the Imperial Family near Ekaterinburg in 1918.

The case, which includes 28 volumes of materials, was closed in January of this year. The report, comprising 800 pages, includes the basic findings of the investigation and makes the case for the authenticity of the remains of the Imperial family, which were studied in the early 1990s.

Solov’ov stated that the authenticity of the remains was established on the basis of an anthropological examination, an analysis of historical materials, and a forensic study of the remains themselves. He expressed the hope that these conclusions will make possible the burial of the remains of Tsarevich Aleksei and his sister Maria. He noted that genetic investigations had been conducted in two stages. And if in the first stage, in the words of the researchers, the results were not entirely conclusive, in the second stage the results were one hundred percent reliable thanks to the new methods employed. Several groups of geneticists, including foreign specialists, have conducted independent analyses, and their results have been compared and found to be identical. Even the remains of the royal family’s servants were found to be authentic, and the hemophilia-causing gene was found among the remains of the empress, tsesarevna Maria, and her brother Aleksei.

Solov’ev yesterday announced that there is not a single document that proves that Lenin or anyone else in the Kremlin gave the order to shoot the Imperial family. In response, the Director of the Chancellery of the House of Romanoff, Alexander Zakatov, underscored the fact that the Imperial House also does not have information of the direct involvement of Lenin in the shooting of the Imperial Family, but does has indirect evidence of the Soviet leaders’ possible knowledge of events in Ekaterinburg. Zakatov added that the Imperial House unequivocally condemns the activity of the Bolshevik Iurovskii, who is directly implicated in the murder of the Imperial family.

German Luk’ianov, the attorney for the House of Romanoff, stated that the Imperial family plans to publish the materials that have been handed over to it. These plans include distributing the materials on the Internet, inasmuch as Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna has always wanted to make these document available as much as possible to the larger public for discussion and for the retirement of any doubts whatsoever—if any still have any doubts—about what transpired in Ekaterinburg. In response, lead investigator Solov’ev suggested that the Investigative Commission’s permission would be required for publication of these materials.

“The representatives of the House of Romanoff can publish materials relating to the Report to end the criminal investigation into the murders of Nicholas II and his family only with the express permission of the Head of the Investigative Committee,” Solov’ev said.

Zakatov agreed with this position and emphasized that, before the publication of this Report, the House of Romanoff would ascertain and follow all the requirements of the laws of the Russian Federation. Both the Grand Duchess and her son are citizens of the Russian Federation and “will never violate the laws, and will never otherwise circumvent the meaning or spirit of the laws.”

We remind our readers that on October 1, 2009, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ruled in favor of rehabilitating the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, and the members of his family.

Emperor Nicholas II, his family, and his servants were shot in the basement of the Ipat’ev House in Ekaterinburg on the night of July 17, 1918. Their remains were found in July 1991 and buried in the summer of 1998 in the Ss. Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II and the members of his family as saints.

A second burial site was found in 2007 not far from the first one, in the area of the old Koptiakovskii road near Ekaterinburg.

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