Popular belief has, until recently, been that Anastasia Romanov and her young brother Alexei escaped the assassination when the rest of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered during the Russian Revolution. The reason was, that there where always 2 bodies missing. Today, people are coming to believe that because the 2 'missing bodies' had been 'located', the whole of the Romanov family were killed. The Russians authorities claim conclusively that that those two missing bodies have been proven, by DNA testing, to be Maria and Alexei.Case closed! We dispute that claim on several grounds. Why? When the Tzar and his family were slaughter by the Bolshovics. He was the richest man in the world. His death meant his fortune went to the State, the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR. The country today known as Russia. There is no way Russia is going to entertain any claim against that fortune. The easiest way to stop any potential claim is for the world believe that no heir survived. They say the DNA testing was confirmed by international experts. But these experts only had material to work with that the Russian authorities supplied. Also the Russian authorities do not have a good track record when it comes to telling the truth. Just look at history and the events of today. In our story the grandchildren of a woman living in South African claimed that their deceased grandmother was the Grand Duchess of Russia. She was presumed to be Anastasia. They claimed she escaped and lived out her life in fear and hiding as a commoner in South Africa. After exhuming the woman's remains from a secret grave, we took the remains to four universities including Oxford University in England, to test their claim. Astonishingly the results concluded that is was not Anastasia who escaped the revolutionaries' bullets but her sister Maria. Which is interesting because since this documentary was first aired on National Geographic the Russian authorities say the missing daughter was Maria - but that she was dead and found in a grave with Alexei, as mentioned above. Convenient. Watch the documentary, weigh up the evidence presented in it and then think about how trustworthy the Russian authorities with so much to lose if we were right. A multi award winning documentary. Also worth considering this comment by 13minutestomidnight "I'm just going to copy my previous answer to this statement. Again: conclusive DNA analysis is impossible on badly chemically and fire damaged bones buried 90 years ago. The bones might be the Romanovs or they might not be, but it would be impossible to determine by DNA analysis due to the high risk of cross-contamination - particularly from the nearby Romanov mass-grave - and DNA degradation. Remember, this documentary just showed that complete, whole untouched bones laid in a single grave 30 years ago were already at such high risk for contamination that one per-eminent University wouldn't touch them and Oxford found completely different DNA results for the skull and bones. If someone had tried to use a DNA analysis of 90-year old mixed bones piled into the same grave and badly chemically and fire damaged in their thesis at my old medical school they would have been failed. How the Americans and Russians got away with it in the media staggers me. Oh, and this was back in 2007, so no, there was no revolutionary DNA testing advancements that would have made this practicable." If you like the music in the opening of this documentary just follow this link and you can download the mp3 file. Enjoy. http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Bell/dp/B002X35MK0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid;=1373619230&sr;=8-1&keywords;=kremlin+capella

• published: 14 Feb 2011
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