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The Russian authorities once again declared that the bones of Tsar Nicholas II and his family were authentic, Monday, July 16, on the eve of the commemoration by the Orthodox Church of the centenary of his badbadination on Tuesday 17 July. The subject has long divided the state and the clergy in Russia
The commemoration of the centenary of the badbadination of Nicholas II and members of the Romanov family by Bolsheviks brought together about 100,000 people on the night of Monday 16 July to Tuesday, July 17th. Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church guided the procession from the city of Ekaterinburg in the Urals to the monastery of Ganina Iama. Almost 20,000 people then joined in the commemorations of the last Tsar of Russia.
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Numerous genetic tests
The murder of Nicholas II at the side of his family by the Bolsheviks, on the night of 16 to 17 July 1918, ended 300 years of Romanov's reign over the Russian Empire. In 1979, the remains of Nicholas II, his wife and three of their children are discovered. Almost 20 years later, in 1998, the bones of this dynastic family were authenticated by the Russian authorities and interred at the same time.
For the patriarch of the Orthodox Church at the time, the authenticity report of the experts is not valid. In November 2015, new genetic tests are carried out confirming once again the authenticity of the tsar's remains. On the side of the Russian Orthodox, the answer remains the same.
On Monday, July 16th, on the eve of the commemorations, the Russian investigators certified the authenticity of the remains of the Romanov family. One more time. These new genetic tests carried out at the request of the Orthodox clergy required the exhumation of Tsar Alexander III to prove the filiation of Nicholas II.
The versions diverge
For the historian Marc Ferro, specialist of Russia and In the USSR, doubts about the authenticity of the bones of the Romanov family persist, as "that in July 1918, other members of the Romanov family were executed near Yekaterinburg and that he was it may be these remains that the Russian authorities identify as those of Nicholas II and his relatives ". The Church would be "persuaded that the found remains would not belong to the family" he continues.
The subject has divided the state and the Russian clergy for many years. In 2000, the Orthodox Church canonized the Romanov dynastic family, while the Russian state did not wish to commemorate the centenary of this murder, as the specialist of the Russian Orthodox Church, Ksenia Luchenko, writes in the daily Vedomosti.
She explains that the badbadination "can not be used as part of patriotic education, since they were shot by members of the Cheka" ancestor of the KGB including President Vladimir Putin was part of it.
Church spokesman Vladimir Legoïda said the results would be examined "with attention" by the clergy. If the results provided by the Russian authorities are confirmed by the Orthodox Church, then the religious burial of the last dynastic family at the head of the Russian Empire could take place.
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