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Russia: Bones are Tsar’s children

11:47 05/05/2008

Human remains found in Russia last year are confirmed as the son and daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. The Tsar, his wife and five children were shot in 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries who attempted to destroy the bodies before they were dumped in pits in Yekaterinburg.

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