Posted on 07/17/2005 5:00:51 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Thousands of Russians marked the 87th anniversary of the assassination of Nicholas II, paying tribute to the last Russian tsar, who was shot by a firing squad.
Orthodox Christian priests led groups of observant Russians, Cossacks and others in processions in Moscow and Kiev. In Yekaterinberg, long lines of regally clad priests marched through the Siberian city to the site where Nicholas II and most of his family were killed on the night of July 16-17, 1918.
Hundreds jammed into Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral to participate in ceremonies.
Nicholas abdicated in 1917 as revolutionary fervor swept Russia, and he and his family were detained. In April 1918, they were sent to Yekaterinburg where they were killed three months later in the basement of a merchant's house.
The remains of the royal family were unearthed from a mining pit near Yekaterinburg in 1991.
Nicholas and his family were canonised by the church in 2000, after years of debate on the issue following the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991.
BUMP!!!!
That's what they were best at, murdering people.
Patton was right.
They couldn't even bother with a show trial.
have you ever >READ< the book "dr. zhivago"?
the poverty and violence of communism is conveyed very well by pasternak.
We should never forget this. Leftism and Death exist like twins.
We must also never forget that the American Left is Marxist.
They were murdered in a basement by a bunch of drunken thugs. If that was a "firing squad," John Wilkes Booth was a sharpshooter.
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