Samples of remains of Nicholas II, his wife, Alexander II's clothes samples are taken for new expertise - investigator Solovyev
MOSCOW. Sept 23 (Interfax) - The samples of the remains of Nicholas II and his spouse Alexandra, as well as the samples of the clothes of Emperor Alexander II were taken as part of new genetic tests in the assissination case of the last Russian imperial family in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, senior criminal investigator of the Main Criminal Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Solovyev, who has investigated the assassination case of the tsarist family told Interfax on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Solovyev participated in the exhumation of the remains at the Romanovs royal sepulcher in St. Petersburg.
"The samples were taken from the remains of Nicholas II and Alexandra at the Peter and Paul Fortress as well as the samples of Alexander II's clothes," he said.
The DNA samples from other representatives of the Romanov House are yet not planned to take for research, Solovyev said.
"The best specialists in the world are working," Solovyev said.
The whole scope of research will be done in Russia, he said.
