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...Russia’s national mythology, but they barely concealed his contempt for the “atheistic” values of liberal democracy and human rights. As an intransigent Slavic nationalist, he failed to see the roots of Bolshevik violence in the repressive habits of his beloved prelapsarian Romanov Russia. And his smarmy coziness with Putin, an autocrat for whom he had nothing but praise, belies his fidelity to the cause of a free society. It is hardly a stretch to link the current turmoil in Georgian separatist regions with Solzhenitsyn’s nefarious fantasy of pan-Slavic...
...Although the legalities on restitution of confiscated property are murky, there are precedents. The ROC - the largest landholder under the Romanovs - is now getting back its estates, potentially worth billions. Even as some of the Romanov heirs indicated that they wouldn't claim back palaces and goods, the state seems to want to play it better safe than sorry by withholding the Romanovs' political rehabilitation...
...doubts about the authenticity of the remains lingered to such an extent that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) performed the funeral rites without ever mentioning their names; the church simply prayed for innocent victims. The Romanov heirs are split on this, too: some of them share the doubts about the remains? authenticity. The missing two bodies have also inspired rumors that one or more of the Romanov children escaped execution, most famously depicted in the 1956 Ingrid Bergman film Anastasia and in real life by a Polish woman named Anna Anderson who falsely claimed to be Princess Anastasia...
...Vladimir Solovyev, the criminologist in the Prosecutor General's Office who led the forensic research for identification on the Romanov remains for the 1998 re-burial, stated at the time that Russian geneticists could say only that they had a father, a mother, and three daughters...
...Still, the burial calmed passions. And the termination of the murder probe meant the rejection of pleas of the Romanov relatives, now settled in Europe, to have the Imperial family formally recognized as victims of political repression. A Moscow court last turned down such a plea in June...