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...this supernaturalistic event did not take place, as unbelievers hold, it requires a natural explanation, and many have been offered. The Gospel According to Matthew says that on learning of the empty tomb, Jewish leaders spread the story that the disciples had stolen Christ's body. Celsus, a 2nd century anti-Christian polemicist, suggested that the Resurrection was a figment of Mary Magdalene's unbalanced mind. Sir James Frazer depicted the Resurrection as a variation of the Osiris, Attis and Adonis legends, symbolizing the death and rebirth of nature. French Author Pierre Nahor wrote that Jesus...
Rumors & Resolve. When Kuzmich died in 1864, believers in the legend noted that Alexander's aged courtiers finally went into mourning-something they had scrupulously avoided in 1825. Two years later, in 1866, rumors swept the capital that Alexander's tomb had been opened by night with the Czar's approval. The supposition: that Kuzmich-Alexander was being returned from his grave in Tomsk to the tomb in the Fortress of Peter and Paul...
Years later an old soldier told one researcher that he had been paid 10,000 rubles to remove a body-apparently that of the fake Alexander-from the tomb and bury it in a small graveyard back of the fortress...
...better luck with the Soviet regime of Brezhnev and Kosygin. Writing in Izvestia's Sunday magazine last week, Journalist Lev Lyubimov revealed that the Russian government is pondering a plan to resolve the Alexandrian mystery once and for all. Lyubimov would like to open both Kuzmich's tomb in Tomsk and Alexander's in Leningrad...
...sure, the tomb needs refurbishing after years of heavy traffic. But recent visitors have noted that Vladimir Ilyich himself has not been looking his best. "He has his good days and his bad days," says an old Moscow hand. "I'm convinced they take him out now and then and do something to him. He looks pretty plastic in places." Indeed, some Kremlinologists believe that the figure in the tomb is not Lenin but a wax facsimile, and to the casual eye the face and hands look very much like old wax into which someone has inserted hair. Then...