Alexei and Maria Romanov: I Possibly Know Where Bones Are in Russia

[GermanBusiness]

I've been dating a woman in St. Petersburg, Russia for over a year whose grandfather was apparently given a lethal injection by the communists when he went in for a routine physical in the late 1940s.

His name: Fyedor Korablyev, born 16 February 1907

Even before the apparent murder, the family has been afraid to talk about any relation to the Romanov Family but an older family member has just told me that Alexei Romanov died as a monk in Siberia in 1960.

The world is aware that Alexei's bones were never found. He was not executed with this family in 1918. He and his sister Maria survived. A man named Heiko supposedly claimed to be Alexei to his American wife...and she announced this after his death in the 1970s...but her attempts to have the DNA tested somehow "fell through".

I wonder why she doesn't try harder.

See the below link for more detail on that.

I actually have more details of the family story including a possible location of Alexei's grave, but because of the explosive nature of it all, and because of the history of pretenders, I am not going to say something here that is either stupid or worthy of headlines.

The family I know is not dishonest or status-seeking in any way. But it is possible that many Russian families developed "secret traditions" that they were Romanov descendants...as a way of coping with the hardships of Soviet life. They may be believing a falsehood without knowing it. But they are too scared to find out and it does not seem to be a fear of learning that it all isn't true. It is more a nagging fear of what the authorities might still be trying to hide.

I would just like to ask:

1) Does anyone out there have access to the real remnants of the Romanov Family whose representatives could quickly check some things of interest...if they are still interested?

2) Are there extended family trees available that could identify the above individual (the grandfather) if that name, which was used under Stalin's reign, was actually the name the grandfather used before the Bolshevik's took over.

Here is an interesting link regarding the fact that Alexei Romanov's bones and the Grand Duchess Maria's bones were never found, while the pretenders so far have all been proven to be just that: pretenders.

http://members.surfeu.fi/thaapanen/Articles/st12.html

I have specific information that, if I can confirm a few points, I would fly to a specific Siberian destination one weekend to investigate further.

[Brugmansian]

This site has lots of stuff (including a forum where you can ask):

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/

Surprised at the reaction here. Russia was modernizing before WWI. Radicals didn't want that. They targeted and did murder reformers in the Tsar's government. The result was the largest Christian nation on the planet crushed into the dirt.

[katrina2012]

l have a picture in my family possenion OF MARIA aged with a baby ... possibility that she never died huge because we have a picture of her she was hidden on a farm

[kalee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7018503.stm

Alexei and Marie’s bodies were found in 2007.