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After exactly 80 years the last imperial family was laid to rest in the ancient St Peter and Paul's Cathedral.

The funeral wasn't easy, the patriarch Alexi II think that it isn't the bones of the imperial family, even then the DNA matched. And to avoid a conflict the remains of the tsar, his family and their faithful servants, where called anonymous victims of the Russian revolution. The president Boris Yeltsin- which was the Communist party chief in Ekatrinebourg in 1977, destroyed the Ipatjevhouse, there the Russian royal family was murdered, he condemned the murder but stuck to the official church description of the remains as unnamed political victims of the Russian revolution.

In the early hours of July 17, 1918 the imperial family, with servants where led down into the cellar there they where shot on direct command from Lenin. The bodies where drowned in acids and shopped to paces an thrown in a deserted mine. After some time they whore brought up again and buried outside Ekatrinebourg, and it was very secret. After Soviet's end the bodies where found, and prince Philip of Britain, who is one of the closest relatives to the late empresses of Russia. To identify Nicholas body was harder, because almost ever close relative was murdered in 1918. But at last they found a relative who volunteered.

In the last minute president Yeltsin change his mind and decided to go to the funeral even when the church wished he not to attend. "The truth (about the execution) was concealed for 80 years," Yeltsin said a week before when the bones were prepared for burial in a church in Ekatrinebourg, " I was told nothing. And tomorrow, the truth should be told, an I should take part." The funeral was held on July 17, 1998.