24 June, 2017 - 02:03 ancient-origins 24 June, 2017 - 02:03 ancient-origins
Science ‘To Answer Russian Royal Mystery’: Did Tsar Stage Death to Become Siberian Monk?
By The Siberian Times reporter
Officially, Alexander I died of typhus aged 47 on December 1, 1825, but evidence suggests he faked his demise and lived as a holy man.
Genetic analysis is soon to be used to determine whether Tsar Alexander I lived for almost four decades as a modest monk after his supposed - and unexpected - death in Taganrog on the Azov Sea, a senior Russian churchman has indicated.
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