"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" writes that experts of the Kars archaeological museum after the examination have established that the remains found in Turkey belong to the officer of the Russian army, Lieutenant-Colonel Karl Karlovich Rzhepetsky.

According to Haber Turk, the officer served in the Twentieth Infantry Division of the Caucasian Corps and died in 1894. The cause of death was a disease, presumably typhoid.

As previously reported, the coffin with a skeleton in military uniform was found by workers on April 26 during construction in the north-eastern province of Ardahan. On the coffin, the size of which was 200 by 90 centimeters, there were Orthodox crosses. It contained ashes in the uniform of an officer of the Russian Tsarist army, with well-preserved boots and massive epaulettes.

Some Russian and Turkish media suggested that the remains belong to Lieutenant-General Vasily A. Geiman, who participated in the capture of the fortress of Ardahan during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.