The Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land.
Posted on 07/17/2017 11:46:32 AM PDT by NRx
Holding aloft icons, crosses and portraits of Russia’s last tsar, tens of thousands of pilgrims have made a 13-mile walk near the Russian city of Ekaterinburg to mark the anniversary of the execution of Nicholas II.
In the early hours of Monday morning, the pilgrims walked to the spot where Nicholas and his family were executed 99 years ago.
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution, and debates are surfacing about how modern Russia should view the events of 1917, in which the February Revolution overthrew the deeply unpopular Nicholas.
After the Bolsheviks seized power later in the year, the tsar’s family were kept under guard, and in July 1918, as the White Army were advancing on Ekaterinburg during the civil war, the royal family was executed.
The image of Nicholas II, whom historians have criticised as an ineffective leader –and who was demonised as the final ruler in a brutal, repressive system by Soviet ideology – is undergoing a renaissance, as the turnout for Monday’s pilgrimage shows.
The walk began at 3am from the centre of Ekaterinburg, accompanied by a children’s choir singing “God save the tsar”. Streets were closed off in the centre of the city to allow the column to pass.
The pilgrims walked for four hours until they arrived at the site of the executions, where a cathedral now stands. A religious service was held at the site.
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Comrade Lenin and Stalin thank you for your vote of confidence. The millions of Christian martyrs, most of them Orthodox, probably do not.
Soviet communists banned vices like pornography, drugs, prostitution, and sodomy ... IN THE USSR. They promoted these evils in the USA. The demonicRAT Party carries on their work.
Has Rasputin been canonized yet?
“Poor Nicholas couldn’t fill his father’s shoes.”
He never wanted to, and never wanted to be czar. When his father died Nicholas was wholly unprepared to succeed him, and he openly admitted it. He is quoted as saying (paraphrasing) “I am not ready for this; I am not qualified for it. I do not want it.”
“Poor Nicholas couldn’t fill his father’s shoes.”
He never wanted to, and never wanted to be czar. When his father died Nicholas was wholly unprepared to succeed him, and he openly admitted it. He is quoted as saying (paraphrasing) “I am not ready for this; I am not qualified for it. I do not want it.”
False dichotomy. Disliking the Romanovs in no way endorses the communists.
It sounds like you passed the Marxist dialectical course.
“These people were typical murdering Bolsheviks. Absolutely soulless.”
Todays liberals the same savages. While they claim to want to ban guns, they only mean to ban everyone but themselves from having them. They know we will slaughter them in war.
The Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land.
When you understand how bloodthirsty the marxist Left is, you’ll never give up your guns while you still draw breath. It would be like washing your hair in fresh blood and lying down in a cage full of rabid wolves.
All that and Russia is also the abortion capital of the world.
Im sure the Ukranians orefered stskin iver the Tsar...
Who financed Lenin and Trotsky?
The Rockefellers had given their financial support after the Czar refused to give them access to the Russian oil fields.
At least that is the image we like to see. But isn’t the reality that it is a more secular nation than the US that was addicted to the abortion mill far more so than us.
Pretty much, in effect, has already happened. The Church supports him, and despite the fact he has cleaned house (stole 30 billion of the peoples’ money) he is adored.
Yes, and read the accounts of Che Guevera, the God of the left. Sick bastard.
Some Christians they are then.
I have. I agree.
“O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance! Grant victory to the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries! And by virtue of Thy cross, preserve Thy habitation!”
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