Amateurs Unravel Russia's Last Royal MysteryYes, the story doesn't end there - an unabashed charlatan named Anna Anderson and mankind's unquenchable thirst for conspiracy have fueled 90 years of speculation that Anastasia and her brother managed to survive.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — On the outskirts of this burly industrial center, off a road like any other, on a nowhere scrap of land — here unfolded the final act of one of the last century’s most momentous events.
The new remains were 70 yards from the first burial site.
...It would be 73 more years, in 1991, before the remains would be reclaimed and the announcement would ring out: the grave of the last Russian czar, Nicholas II, and his family had been found.
But the story does not end there.
At long last - it appears that they have found their bodies, not far from where they found the rest of the Romanovs.
Let us hope that DNA is salvageable.
Perhaps then we can stop hearing fairy tales about how two unarmed and isolated young children managed to escape (or be spared by) the same group of murderous thugs who shot and stabbed nine other adults and children to death, before disfiguring them with acid and throwing them down a mine shaft along with several hand grenades.
It would make a great story for them to have survived, but pitiless men like Lenin insist that their assassins be thorough - or at least too terrified to disappoint.
Brutal as it is, the truth would at last make the Russians provide the very least that is owed to murdered children: a grave that testifies to posterity the manner of their death.
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