Other boycotters include the main claimants to the Russian throne, GrandDuchessMaria Vladimirovna and her 17-year-old son, Georgy, who will spend the day at the patriarch's much grander remembrance service for the imperial family near Moscow.
"On the basis of the expert analysis, it is possible to conclude with a large degree of certainty that parts of the skeleton... belong to Tsarevich Alexei and his sister, GrandDuchessMaria Nikolayevna Romanova", Vladimir Gromov told Russian media.