On this day - 17 July

Eighty years after their assassination, on July 17th 1998, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and three of their daughters were interred in St Petersburg. The ceremony was attended by the Russian President Boris Yeltsin and many worldwide ambassadors. The family's remains were located in 1979 near Yekaterinburg but it took until January of 1998 to formally identify them using DNA comparison to living relatives.

Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra had five children, but a daughter and their son were not found with the others. In July 2007 bones were discovered near Yekaterinburg which were later proved to be the other two children.