article_snippet: the bones of the tragic last Russian emperor and his family murdered Tsar Nicholas II the bones of the tragic last Russian emperor and his family were dug up in 1991 and are now buried in a crypt in St Petersburg.
article_snippet: The Romanovs: There is growing pressure on Vladimir Putin's government to dig up the bodies of Russia's last emperor Nicholas II (pictured), his wife Alexandra (centre) and daughters Olga (left), Tatiana (top) and Anastasia (right) - his other daughter Maria and son Alexei (both pictured) were never buried .
article_snippet: The skulls of Nicholas II (right), Nicholas II wife Alexandra (left) were discovered in 1979 and buried in a crypt in St Petersburg in 1998 - along with The skulls of Nicholas II (right), his wife Alexandra (left) daughters Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia .
article_snippet: Forgotten: Although his sisters Olga (left) and Tatiana (right) received a state burial at Peter and Paul Cathedral, Alexei's (centre) remains were never buried .
article_snippet: Alexei - brutally shot aged 13 with other members of Alexei family - they have still not been laid to rest.
article_snippet: Instead Alexei bones - and those of Alexei sister Grand Duchess Maria - lie almost forgotten in cardboard boxes stashed in the Russian state archive with Putin's government refusing to order a burial in the face of objections from the church.
article_snippet: It is widely believed that his remains and those of his wife, those of his wife, their children and several servants children and several servants were originally found in a forest near Yekaterinburg in 1979 and subsequently dug up 11 years later as the USSR was collapsing.
article_snippet: Pictured are the remains of Alexei and his sister Maria, 19, discovered in 2007 and still have not been buried .
article_snippet: Along with the remains of the 50 year old tsar were the 50 year old tsar 46 year-old wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, their daughters Olga, 22, Tatyana, 21, and Anastasia, 17.
article_snippet: The dismembered bodies of their servants Yevgeny Botkin, 53, Anna Demidova, aged 40, Aloizy Trupp, aged 62, and Ivan Kharitonov, aged 48 were also there - while Alexei and Maria's bodies were dumped 230ft away.
highlights_snippet: He and his family bodies were discovered in 1979 and now rest in a St Petersburg crypt .
  
highlights_snippet: Remains of Nicholas' son Alexei and daughter Maria have yet to be buried .
  