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No Disintegration After 50 Years ^ SCIENTISTS PUZZLED (Received 15, 9.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, March 14. Russxan scientists, after three yeaTs' research, have not solved the reasons for the preservation of the body of the musical composer, Nicholas Rubenstein, who was buried unembalmed in 1881 in a sealed vault in the Donskoy monastery, which was razed. in 1934. The body' then did not show the slightest disintegration and even roses placed on the breast had not faded. The Institu .o of Criminal Medicine suggests that preservation was due to the metal ehell causing initial non-dis-integration, while the preservative essences emanating from the wooden coffin eompleted the process. The Pravda states that when removed from the monastery the body began to putrify and was later mummified.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 50, 15 March 1937, Page 7
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