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And finally, Tsar Nicholas II can be laid to rest with the rest of his family. New DNA tests show that bones discovered in a Russian mine almost 25 years ago were shown to be those of Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, according to The Daily Mail.

The genuineness of the bones has been questioned by the Russian Orthodox Church, which had canonized the family of the Tsar in 2000. As the bones had been disinterred in St. Petersburg in 1998, the church ordered more probes to ensure that they were indeed part of Russia's royal couple.

In 1918, Prince Alexei and Princess Maria of the Romanov family were executed by the Bolsheviks. The remains were thrown into an old mine shaft. After they were removed recently, the church said that their remains should be proven genuine, otherwise the royal couple would not be buried, according to The Huffington Post.

Russia's Investigative Committee exhumed and examined their remains in September, 2014. They intensively probed their DNA samples, but found that they were like another examination in 1993, which also said that the remains were genuine.