BODY IN VAULT
Preservation Though Unembalmed. Press Association —Copyright Received 10.30 a.m. Moscow, March 13. Russian scientists, after re* search lasting three years, have not solved the reasons for the preservation of the body of the musical composer, Nicholas Rubenstein, who was hurled, unembalmed, in 1881, in a sealed vault of the Donskoy Monastery. The monastery was razed in 1934, but the body then did not show the slightest disintegration. Even the roses that had been placed on the breast had not faded.
The institute of Criminal Medicine suggests that preservation was due to the metal shell causing initial non-disintegration, while the preservative essences emanating from the wooden coffin completed the process.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 383, 15 March 1937, Page 5
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