Searching for Nicholas II ......#thecrown

It was dramatic processing that The Crown connected searching for the bones of Nicholas II and mutual visits between Britain and Russia in 1990s, but the series indeed showed changes of the relationship between the two countries, from relatives to enemies, then from allies to enemies, then friends. Now it has cooled down again because of another war. Nicholas II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. After the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution, the family was held in Yekaterinburg, where they were executed on 17 July 1918. In 1979, the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, three of their daughters, and those of four non-family members killed with them, were discovered near Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) by amateur archaeologist Alexander Avdonin In January 1998, the remains excavated from underneath the dirt road near Yekaterinburg were officially identified as those of Nicholas II and his family, excluding one daughter (either Maria or Anastasia) and Alexei. The identifications—including comparisons to a living relative, performed by separate Russian, British and American scientists using DNA analysis—concur and were found to be conclusive. #thecrown #russia #thequeen #tsar #yeltsin #ww1 #soviet