Remains of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna may be included in royal family inquiry - Russian Investigative Committee
MOSCOW. Sept 26 (Interfax) - The Russian Investigative Committee does not rule out that samples of the remains of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna may be delivered from Israel to Moscow for a new examination within the royal family inquiry but a final decision has yet to be made.
"We are holding negotiations with the Russian Orthodox Church. This is a very complicated matter: international relations and the delivery from a foreign country. A final decision has yet to be made," senior investigator of the Russian Investigative Committee main criminal investigation department Vladimir Solovyov told Interfax on Saturday.
Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna was a sister of the spouse of Emperor Nicholas II. She was killed by the Bolsheviks in Alapayevsk and her remains were buried in the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem several years later.