weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/387/in3.htm ...Last Friday Russia buried its last tsar, Nicholas II, 80 years to the day after his assassination. Nine coffins containing the bones of Nicholas, his wife the Empress Alexandra, three of their daughters and -- destined for a separate crypt below that of the royal family -- their doctor, their maid, their valet and their cook, were entombed in the 18th-century Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul on an island in the River Neva where it flows through the former imperial capital of St Petersburg. From this same island the Bolsheviks launched their attack on the Winter Palace in 1917, and from here they transported the tsar, his family and certain members of his household to Ekaterinburg, an ancient Russian town in Western Siberia, where they were executed on 17 July 1918... Ver más en el link
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