Burnaby's Sandra Tammet-Romanov says her late husband said he was the son of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, and that he escaped the 1918 execution of the imprisoned imperial family in the wake of the communist revolution.
Both bear the name of Alexei Romanov, son of Czar Nicholas II who abdicated during the Russian Revolution.The family — with Empress Alexandra, Alexei’s four sisters and their staff — was executed in Siberia on orders from Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, communist Russia.
DNA experts say the remains in that grave are Alexei’s. So too does the Russian Orthodox Church, which made the family saints. The execution took place in a basement room in a Yekaterinburg mansion known as “The House of Special Purpose” — or the Ipatiev House.The assassins’ leader, Yakov Yurovsky, said the boy, 13, was shot repeatedly and bayoneted.Like other family members, the boy wore clothes stuffed with precious stones. There were tales of gems causing bullets to ricochet around the small room.Sandra said her husband told her of Yurovsky’s order to fire and that he remembered nothing after that.
Sandra says her husband remembered nothing until he awoke in the home of a family called Veerman, whose son had recently died. He took Ernest Veerman’s name. Soon, they had to leave the home. Once, while doing a foxtrot to a song called “Anastasia,” she noticed tears in his eyes. She asked why.Again, she asked who he was. He pointed her to a book called ‘Lost Splendor’ by Prince Felix Yusupov. At the library, she found a copy.“I am Alexei,” he told her.
The DNA testing In 1991, researchers identified sets of bones believed to the family’s. They used blood from Nicholas’ clothes and DNA from members of many European royal families, including many of Queen Victoria’s descendants, Prince Philip among them, to make the identifications. "There were several dozen individuals who claimed the identity of Alexei Romanov after his execution," Kojevnikov told Glacier Media. "The Orthodox Church recognizes him as a martyr who was executed in July 1918 and thus rejects all the later pretenders."
Sandra sent documents and two of her husband’s teeth for DNA testing to U.K. forensic laboratories in 1993, leading to discussion among scientists Pavel Ivanov and Peter Gill. Sandra said officials checked out her husband's claims, going as far as physical examinations of him for marks the heir would have sustained in the family’s killing.Tammet-Romanov showed them the scar from a bayonet in the execution. He also told them of an undescended testicle , his widow explains.
"I've known about this man and his claims since the mid-1970s," Lyons said. "This is all make-believe." “His claims were long debunked even before the discovery of the remains of Tsesarevich Alexis and his sister, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna in 2007 which proved the whole Imperial Family died at Ekaterinburg .
The czarevich had bouts of bleeding often and frequently had to be carried by an attendant. The issue was one of great concerns to the family and not common knowledge outside royal circles. The Vancouver journalist Vancouver journalist John Kendrick has long believed Tammet-Romanov’s claim, and has done significant research into the health of the czarevich. Much of it can be found on his website.
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