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07.11.2008, 16:20
Russia’s oldest ‘first-wave’ emigrant has died in Paris after a long fight against illness. Andrey Shmeman, who was 88, was among those who fled during the country’s civil war after the October Revolution of 1917.
05.12.2008, 08:45
A final genetic examination has proved the authenticity of the remains of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, which were found in 1991 in the Urals. The results were announced by American scientist Michael Coble, who was in charge of the research.
09.12.2008, 12:27
A new exhibition dedicated to Russia’s last royal family has opened in St Petersburg. Under the title “Peter and Paul’s cathedral and the Grand Royal tomb – a necropolis of the Imperial House of Romanovs”.
Published: 01 October, 2008, 16:02
Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of political repression and should be rehabilitated. Nicholas, his wife, their five children, a doctor and three servants were shot dead by Bolshevik revolutiona
