In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near ekaterinburg, siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. B...In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near ekaterinburg, siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the romanovs?