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Emperor Nicholas II and his family execution inquiry dropped

15 January 2009 10:28 (UTC +04:00)

Moscow-APA. Russian prosecution office dropped an inquiry of Emperor Nicholas II and his family execution arguing it can be continued only in that case if bodies found near Yekaterinburg confirmed not to belong to the tsarâ€™s family, APA reports. The criminal case was launched after bodies of Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, their three daughters, the family doctor and several servants were found in Sverdlovsk Region, Russia in 1991. All of them were executed by Bolsheviks on Julay 17, 1918. Bodies of the Emperorâ€™s younger daughter Maria and son Alexei were found later in 2007 near Yekaterinburg. According to the investigation materials, verbal decision on execution of tsarâ€™s family was made by the Ural Political Council and the government was informed about that. There was no official decision on the execution of tsarâ€™s family.