# Remains of Tsar's heir may have been found **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862 "2007-08-25T03:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862/1 "2007-08-25T03:08:56Z")
You KNEW I was going to post [this](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_re_eu/russia_czar_s_son). > [@](#): > > MOSCOW - The remains of the last czar’s hemophiliac son and heir to the Russian throne, missing since the royal family was gunned down nine decades ago by Bolsheviks in a basement room, may have been found, an archaeologist said Thursday. > ADVERTISEMENT > > Bones were found in a burned area in the ground near Yekaterinburg, the city where Czar Nicholas II and his wife and children were held prisoner and then shot in 1918. > > A top local archaeologist said the bones belong to a boy and a young woman roughly the ages of the czar’s son, Alexei, and a daughter whose remains have also never been found. Hmmmm…very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862/2 "2007-08-25T13:19:46Z")
If so, this will finally put the whole Anastasia thing to rest once and for all. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862/3 "2007-08-25T13:37:54Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] If so, this will finally put the whole Anastasia thing to rest once and for all. [/QUOTE] You don’t hang out with the tinfoil hat crowd much do you? There will always be people who believe in the face of remains and DNA that Anastasia escaped. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862/4 "2007-08-25T15:37:15Z")
From the article: > [@](#): > > The bodies were loaded in a truck and disposed of first in a mine shaft, according to most accounts. According to NTV, a 1934 report based on Yurovsky’s words indicated that the bodies of nine victims were then doused with sulfuric acid and buried along a road, while those of Alexei and a sister were burned and left in a pit nearby. I wonder why they treated the bodies of Alexei and the sister differently than the rest of the family? Why didn’t they get disposed of with the rest of them? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862/5 "2007-08-25T15:59:52Z")
I am Anastasia! And so’s my husband. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862/6 "2007-08-25T16:26:35Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] If so, this will finally put the whole Anastasia thing to rest once and for all. [/QUOTE] Actually, the funny thing about that is that most scientists and experts don’t think Anastasia’s the one missing-all the evidence points to Maria, the third daughter, being the one. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remains-of-tsars-heir-may-have-been-found/416862/7 "2007-08-25T16:32:40Z")
[QUOTE=nyctea scandiaca] From the article: I wonder why they treated the bodies of Alexei and the sister differently than the rest of the family? Why didn’t they get disposed of with the rest of them? [/QUOTE] (Sorry, wouldn’t let me edit-missed time frame!) **nyctea scandiaca** , from what I remember, they were trying to get rid of all the bodies that way and being that cremation is actually very difficult except for experts, they didn’t have time. At any rate, for those who believe in survivors, while I’ve seen a FEW who had somewhat convincing stories, there’s no way anyone survived. That was a brutal massacre. I’m willing to believe that one of them wasn’t quite dead when they left the basement, but died on the way to the grave. That’s as far as I’ll concede. As for Anna Anderson, everything I’ve read suggests that she wasn’t a deliberate imposter. I think she really, truly believed she was Anastasia-she was definitely mentally ill, possibly schizophrenic. I actually feel rather sorry for her, since she was pretty much used by everyone around her, except for a few kind souls.