The Russian Orthodox Church has still not recognized the remains interred in Peter and Paul Cathedral as those of Nicholas II and his family members and entourage
DNA confirmed the identities of the Imperial Family two decades ago. There is no margin for error, regardless of what the ROC thinks.
A bit tardy again, but this is the film which I had meant to cite earlier, but I could not find it at the time. I just came across is again in my computer.
It’s from a television program broadcast in 2011. The dialogue is in Russian, but there is a lot of interesting footage.
Perhaps it can still be viewed on line somewhere:
Professija-reporter.(2011.02.12).Zhizn'.za.carja.avi
At 20:23 it shows the Vladimir Soloviev (the chief Russian investigator into the murder of the Imperial family) and the reporter at the gates of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Ganina Yama complex. Despite having received permission in advance, the reporter and camera crew were denied entrance.
What is more astonishing is that the guards also refused to let V. Soloviev himself enter the premises — even after he showed them his credentials from the federal government. They told him to take it up with Archbishop Vikenty of Ekaterinburg!
At that point the reporter comments that it seems that the Church is not separated from the State, but the State from the Church.
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A related item:
Paul Kulikovsky, in his "Romanov News" No. 98, May 2016, posted this:
The Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria burial-case continuesDNA test shows match between remains of Nicholas II and Alexander III, and Alexander II
29 May - According to Peter Saradinaki, the DNA studies recently made on Emperor Alexander II and Alexander III MATCHED those of Nicholas II, whose
remains were found on the Koptayakovsky Road and were buried in St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in 1998.
It is also said that
all the relics of Emperor Nicholas II, his family and Faithful servants were removed from the Peter and Paul Fortress' St. Catherine Chapel for further "anthropological studies".
This means the Russian Orthodox Church is now in possession of all the Ekaterinburg relics and that in turn must mean they are soon ready to announce their acceptance of them as the Imperial Family.
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So, stay tuned...!