The hunt for Russia's 'tsar for a day'

[Still Waters]

A century after their were slain, new hopes of finding the remains of missing royal, who ‘rejected’ his brother Nikolai II’s throne.

An American-Russian team is digging at sites in Perm region hoping to find the remains of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and his secretary Nicholas Johnson, slain by the Bolsheviks on the night of 12-13 June 1918.

It is believed that as Johnson lay dying, Mikhail said to the assassins: 'Let me say goodbye to my friend.' 

Moments later, he too was dead.

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