Painting from Russian Orthodox Church where my son was baptized and where Natalie Wood married Roger Vadim
Posted on 07/15/2018 6:42:09 AM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, July 12, Interfax - The centenary of the execution of the last Russian emperor and his family will be marked by a 21-kilometer nighttime religious procession led by Patriarch Kirill from the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg to the Monastery of the Holy Royal Martyrs at Ganina Yama, the patriarch's press secretary Rev. Alexander Volkov told reporters.
In this way, the patriarch will pay tribute to the memory of the canonized royal family, who were executed by the Bolsheviks early on July 17, 1918 at the Ipatyev House, where the Church on the Blood was later built. After the execution, the bodies of the royal family and their servants were taken to a pit (Ganina Yama) 21 kilometers away and destroyed there with fire and sulfuric acid. Decades later, in late 2000, the Holy Synod blessed the construction of a monastery in memory of the Romanovs at the site of the barbaric destruction of their bodies.
The patriarch's visit to the Yekaterinburg Diocese, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the tragedy, will take place on July 13-17, the Russian Orthodox Church said on its website.
After arriving in Yekaterinburg on Friday, the patriarch will visit the Church on the Blood in honor of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land.
On Saturday, July 14, the patriarch will chair a Holy Synod meeting in Yekaterinburg to mark the anniversary.
On Sunday, Patriarch Krill will consecrate the Church of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God at the Monastery of New Martyrs in Alapayevsk and lead a liturgy in the newly consecrated church.
On the same day, he will perform a prayer service near the Alapayevsk mine shaft and visit the Monastery of the Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna for a small consecration service of Elisabeth's Church, then visit the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.
On the night of July 16, the Russian patriarch will lead an all-night vigil on the square in front of the Church on the Blood, followed by the religious procession to Ganina Yama. After it arrives there, a prayer service will be performed for the royal family.
Russians are an odd lot.
Aren’t we all.
Good Point.
Fast forward 80 years later....Stalin is moldering in a Christless grave, awaiting eternal damnation. On the other hand, the Cause of Christ just grows stronger and stronger.
Nicholas II might not have had much of a capacity for the wise conduct of affairs in Russia and thus what happened in 1917-18 was that very unfortunate consequence of that sort of thing. But then followed the unspeakable horrors of what took place under Communist rule.
They are a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
Thanks Winston. :)
They’re just gluttons for misery. Their history is filled with defeat and untold horror brought on mostly by themselves.
It's almost enough to make one forgive them for having no small amount of paranoia about America during the Cold War. We never had any intention of conquering the Russian people or their land. Even so, they had learned the hard way to be prepared to defend their homeland at all cost. It wasn't anything personal. And the average Russian likely was never a big fan of communism. But like I said, they've a long memory of being invaded. They weren't going to let it happen again. And they never will.
I don’t know anything at all about Krill, but all that gear he wears looks impressive.
It is in Hollywood, Ca
“Russians have a long memory. Especially of foreign invasion. The Mongols. Napoleon. Being under seize by the Nazis...”
A Russian immigrant once told me that Russians are the most paranoid people on the planet.
He also said that they look for the dark cloud in every silver lining.
I hate commies...for real.
The "Yurovsky Note", an account of the event filed by Yurovsky to his Bolshevik superiors following the killings, was found in 1989 and detailed in Edvard Radzinsky's 1992 book, The Last Tsar. According to the note, on the night of the deaths the family was awakened and told to dress. They were told they were being moved to a new location to ensure their safety in anticipation of the violence that might ensue when the White Army reached Yekaterinburg. Once dressed, the family and the small circle of servants who had remained with them were herded into a small room in the house's sub-basement and told to wait. Alexandra and Alexei sat in chairs provided by guards at the Empress's request. After several minutes, the guards entered the room, led by Yurovsky, who quickly informed the Tsar and his family that they were to be executed. The Tsar had time to say only "What?" and turn to his family before he was killed by several bullets to the chest (not, as is commonly stated, to the head; his skull, recovered in 1991, bears no bullet wounds).[54] The Tsarina and her daughter Olga tried to make the sign of the cross, but were killed in the initial volley of bullets fired by the executioners. The rest of the Imperial retinue were shot in short order, with the exception of Anna Demidova, Alexandra's maid. Demidova survived the initial onslaught, but was quickly murdered against the back wall of the basement, stabbed to death while trying to defend herself with a small pillow she had carried into the sub-basement that was filled with precious gems and jewels.[55]
Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Anastasia and the dog Ortino in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo in the spring of 1917 The "Yurovsky Note" further reported that once the thick smoke that had filled the room from so many weapons being fired in such close proximity cleared, it was discovered that the executioners' bullets had ricocheted off the corsets of two or three of the Grand Duchesses. The executioners later came to find out that this was because the family's crown jewels and diamonds had been sewn inside the linings of the corsets to hide them from their captors. The corsets thus served as a form of "armor" against the bullets. Anastasia and Maria were said to have crouched up against a wall, covering their heads in terror, until they were shot down by bullets, recalled Yurovsky. However, another guard, Peter Ermakov, told his wife that Anastasia had been finished off with bayonets. As the bodies were carried out, one or more of the girls cried out, and were clubbed on the back of the head, wrote Yurovsky
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