Members of the Imperial family buried in Peking

April 23, 1920

The Associated Press reports today on the burial of seven bodies, "four of them said to be members of the Russian Imperial Family."  The bodies arrived yesterday in Peking from Harbin, and were buried in the Russian cemetery, which is located outside the city wall.
The burial was "surrounded with the greatest secrecy," even the Russian Legation received "scant information of the circumstances."
The bodies are believed to be those of Grand Duke Serge Mikhailovich, Prince Ioann, husband of Princess Helen, daughter of King Peter of Serbia; Prince Igor, Ioann's brother; Grand Duchess Elizabeth, sister of the late Empress, and "three servants who shared the fate of these members of the royal family."
It has been alleged that they were killed by the Bolsheviks, and their "bodies thrown into a coal mine near Perm."