Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovin

Interim Results of Studies of the Royal Remains from the Necropolis of the Ascension Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin

The purpose of this article is to comprehend the results of the study of the remains from the burials of the female necropolis of the Ascension Cathedral by the historical necropolis research group (1994-2010), formed on the basis of the Moscow Kremlin Museum-Reserve. This article reflects the main milestones of anthropological study of the remains of historical figures in the Soviet period of Russian history and in modern times. A special place is given to the history of the origin and evolution of the method of reconstructing a person’s appearance on a craniological basis (“Gerasimov’s method”). This technique was the result of the development of biological, historical, archaeological and social disciplines that consider a person in all its complex diversity (history, anatomy, anthropology, paleoanthropology and archeology