ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The bodies of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, and his wife, Alexandra, were exhumed by authorities seeking answers regarding the family's slaying.
The couple and their four children were shot to death in 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries. The family was buried in St. Petersburg's St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral, but the Russian Orthodox Church seeks to ascertain family links before other relatives can be interred there.