Mystery disappearance of a Russian princess Anastasia revealed
Anastasia is a daughter of Czar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor slaughtered by communist forces. Russian society for decades to believe that the daughter Anastasia escaped the massacre and life by hiding his identity. Now the 90-year-old mystery that may have been disclosed by the researchers to the discovery of a tomb containing the bones of two humans. One of the most romantic stories in Russia turned out to end up with the dark and depressing.
Anastasia is a daughter of Czar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor slaughtered by communist forces. Russian society for decades to believe that the daughter Anastasia escaped the massacre and life by hiding his identity. Now the 90-year-old mystery that may have been disclosed by the researchers to the discovery of a tomb containing the bones of two humans. One of the most romantic stories in Russia turned out to end up with the dark and depressing.
The story started on July 17, 1918, Communist forces stormed the Palace and the Russian Bolsheviks slaughtered emperor Nicholas II, Queen Alexandra and their five children, namely Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei crown prince along with his servants. The Russian Revolution began and ended the reign of the Romanov dynasty which has lasted for 304 years. Rumors spread among the Russian public that two children of Nicholas II had escaped from the massacre.
This is reinforced by the discovery of a mass grave in 1991 in Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountain region, 900 miles east of Moscow which contains the bones of the entire royal family, was not found inside the bodies of two other children of Czar Nicholas II. Public believes that the crown prince Alexei and Anastasia survived and lived to conceal his identity.
But the researchers said in a recent report that there is no happy ending for all members of the kingdom, including the daughter Anastasia. In 2007 a team of researchers managed to find the second grave just a few hundred feet from the first grave in which there are the remains of two human bodies. DNA analysis of the two parts of the human bones suggest a link between the bones to other bones Romanov family. The Russian government confirmed that the bones belonged to one of them is the daughter Anastasia after getting lab results from Russia, Britain and the United States.
"I was asked to do the study." Said Evgeny Rogaev, a molecular genetic scientist at the University of Massachusetts, who led the investigation. "This is a difficult case," he continued. The final results of the investigation report was published online in February 2009 in the Journal of the National Academy of Sciences.
A sad sight on display in front of the researchers. The man who killed the two men had tried to destroy their bodies with fire and sulfuric acid, may be performed to conceal their identity and time of death. This has made the work of researchers led Rogaev be more difficult than imagined.
Rogaev previously been requested by the Russian government to conduct forensic task in 1997 against the bones in the grave first. Now he has been asked to put an end to the dark history of Russia for good.
The key used by Rogaev is mitochondrial DNA found on bone remnants. Mitochondrial DNA obtained from the mother only. In contrast with Autosomal DNA can be obtained from the father and mother. Thus Rogaev and teams can connect the DNA with DNA queen Alexandra. Another key is to compare Y chromosome lineage Romanov. Research from the second grave suggests that the bone came from a man and a woman. So a team of researchers to compare the Y chromosomes of Crown Prince Alexei by Czar Nicholas II.
The research team also received help from an unexpected place, namely from the State Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. The museum store clothes Czar Nicholas II containing blood stains, the rest of the attempted murder of Nicholas II when he visited Osaka in 1891. From the blood stains, DNA researchers get clear.
From all these comparisons, it emerged that the two bones in the cemetery are the property of the Crown Prince Alexei and his sister Maria some thought, some departure from Anastasia. Yet somehow, a whole family of Nicholas II was found to be complete in two graves. That means closing the mystery that has been 90 years old forever.
There is no end to the wonderful family of Nicholas II, especially Anastasia. The most romantic fairy tale in Russian history has ended for good in a deserted graveyard without tombstones.
But the researchers said in a recent report that there is no happy ending for all members of the kingdom, including the daughter Anastasia. In 2007 a team of researchers managed to find the second grave just a few hundred feet from the first grave in which there are the remains of two human bodies. DNA analysis of the two parts of the human bones suggest a link between the bones to other bones Romanov family. The Russian government confirmed that the bones belonged to one of them is the daughter Anastasia after getting lab results from Russia, Britain and the United States.
"I was asked to do the study." Said Evgeny Rogaev, a molecular genetic scientist at the University of Massachusetts, who led the investigation. "This is a difficult case," he continued. The final results of the investigation report was published online in February 2009 in the Journal of the National Academy of Sciences.
A sad sight on display in front of the researchers. The man who killed the two men had tried to destroy their bodies with fire and sulfuric acid, may be performed to conceal their identity and time of death. This has made the work of researchers led Rogaev be more difficult than imagined.
Rogaev previously been requested by the Russian government to conduct forensic task in 1997 against the bones in the grave first. Now he has been asked to put an end to the dark history of Russia for good.
The key used by Rogaev is mitochondrial DNA found on bone remnants. Mitochondrial DNA obtained from the mother only. In contrast with Autosomal DNA can be obtained from the father and mother. Thus Rogaev and teams can connect the DNA with DNA queen Alexandra. Another key is to compare Y chromosome lineage Romanov. Research from the second grave suggests that the bone came from a man and a woman. So a team of researchers to compare the Y chromosomes of Crown Prince Alexei by Czar Nicholas II.
The research team also received help from an unexpected place, namely from the State Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. The museum store clothes Czar Nicholas II containing blood stains, the rest of the attempted murder of Nicholas II when he visited Osaka in 1891. From the blood stains, DNA researchers get clear.
From all these comparisons, it emerged that the two bones in the cemetery are the property of the Crown Prince Alexei and his sister Maria some thought, some departure from Anastasia. Yet somehow, a whole family of Nicholas II was found to be complete in two graves. That means closing the mystery that has been 90 years old forever.
There is no end to the wonderful family of Nicholas II, especially Anastasia. The most romantic fairy tale in Russian history has ended for good in a deserted graveyard without tombstones.
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