Russia Exhumes the Remains of the Last Tsar and Tsarina, Nearly a Century After Their Deaths
On July 17 , 1918 , Tsar Nicholas II of Russia , his married woman , and his five nestling were woken up before daybreak , lead into a basement , and shoot by a firing squad . Their bodies were burned , doused in back breaker , and afterwards dumped into a mass grave near the Ural Mountains . In 1991 , building workers uncovered the corpses , and scientists later confirmed , via genetic testing , that they belong to the Romanov clan ....