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In 1991, nine sets of human remains were found in the forest outside Yekaterinburg. They have been identified through DNA testing as belonging to the Tsar and Tsarina, three of their daughters, the Tsarina's ladies' maid, and the family's doctor, cook and footman. In 1998, the Romanovs and their servants were buried in [[St. Petersburg]] and have been declared [[passion bearer]]s by the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. However, two sets of remains were missing from the mass grave. Scientists identified the missing family members as [[Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia]], who was a few weeks short of his fourteenth birthday at the time of the killing, and either [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]] or [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918)|Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia]], who were seventeen and nineteen respectively at the time of the killings. The report of two missing bodies continued until the late 2000s to fuel speculation that one or more members of the family could have survived.