[The detection of the traces of old damages to the bones of the cranial vault of the Emperor Nikolaĭ II].

Relevant reports are reviewed, primary medical files analyzed, and the skull of Nicholas II is investigated using roentgenography and computer-aided tomography with the aim of forensic medical diagnosis of traces of an old injury to skull vault bones. The Emperor had a superficial fracture of the skull vault bones. No periosteal callus is formed in the course of healing of such an injury, and the trace of the fracture is not seen beyond the contour of compact plate of the skull vault. The external compact plate at the site of injury was lost after long stay of the skull is soil at the place of burial, and therefore traces of a former injury could not be detected.