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Russia is planning to
exhume the remains of Tsar Alexander III, the father of the last Russian
emperor Nicholas II in an attempt to prove the remains of Nicholas II's last
two children belong to the slain Tsar’s family. It was requested by
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Forensic
experts told Russian media the process is likely to start in the second half of
November 2015. However, opening the vault of the Russian Tsar who died back in
1894 may be quite complicated.
“It [the burial vault] contains not only a
coffin with the Tsar's body but also a separate grave with the tsar's embalmed
vital organs,” Marina Logunova, senior research associate at the St. Petersburg
State History Museum, told TASS.
