Senior investigator for particularly important cases of the TFR Marina Molodtsova has revealed new details about the murder of the Romanov Royal family in an interview with “Izvestia”.
Molodtsov noted that at the moment established some of the participants involved in the murder in the Ipatiev house. According to her, after all examinations in aggregate will be a procedural decision and given a legal assessment.
Molodtsov Also said that during the investigation of the experiments we excluded some version. For example, in the course of the investigation were denied the version that the bodies were destroyed using sulfuric acid and fire. She explained that when applied to the surface of biological tissues with concentrated sulfuric acid and slow down the process of their subsequent burning.
in addition, the investigator said that in a room that size coincided with a room in the basement of the Ipatiev house, was reproduced situation and the circumstances of the shooting of the Royal family. “It refuted the allegations made by some researchers that in such a small size the room could accommodate 11 victims and participants in the massacre,” she said.
In 1999 the investigation into the murder was completed, but in 2007 it resumed after the discovery of the remains of crown Prince Alexei and his sister Maria.
In 2015, Patriarch Kirill appealed to the Russian government to conduct “additional identification studies”. With this purpose, the exhumed remains of the Romanovs were buried in 1998 in Petropavlovsk a Cathedral of Petersburg, to withdraw samples of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna. After this, Soloviev was removed from the investigation.
currently busy Marina Molodtsova. Investigations are conducted with the participation of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church.
July 16, 2018 it was reported that the investigation conclusively proved the authenticity of the remains of the Imperial family found at the scene of their death in Ekaterinburg.
Nicholas II, his wife, children and servants were shot in the summer of 1918 in Ekaterinburg. In 2000, the ROC ranked members of the Royal family canonized.
