Posted on 01/24/2022 6:01:00 PM PST by marshmallow
Moscow, January 24, Interfax - The Russian Imperial House of Romanov will support a Russian Orthodox Church decision to recognize the authenticity of the remains of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, and members of his family.
"If now comes a moment when the Russian Orthodox Church, having studied all the multilateral findings, is prepared to recognize the 'Yekaterinburg remains' as being authentic, this will be taken by the Imperial House with reverence, confidence in the Russian Orthodox Church, and with great joy," the House of Romanov spokesman Alexander Zakatov told Interfax.
The head of the House is Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna.
In the event of a decision by the Bishops' Council of the Church to recognize the authenticity, the remains of two of Nicholas II's children - Tsesarevich Alexey and his sister Maria - must be buried alongside their family, in the vault at the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, the spokesman said.
Earlier on Saturday the Russian Church said that the investigation's findings left it in no doubt that the remains found near Yekaterinburg were those of members of the last Russian emperor's family.
"We must wait for decision from the Bishops' Council. If the Church recognizes that this is precisely Emperor Nicholas II and his family, then these tombs in the vault at the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral will take on an additional sacral meaning," Zakatov said.
When asked about Alexeyi and Maria's remains Zakatov said: "The Council will probably say in its decision how to treat them, whether the Church recognizes them and also their authenticity. Then they will have to be moved to the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, to the dynastic vault, into appropriate tombs."
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After the Revolution: Politburo, Communist Party, KGB.
After the Wall fell and the freemarketeers did their "magic": Oligarchs, Orthodox Church, FSB
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
note that the Prince of Moscow, Alexander Nevsky, who is a saint in the Russian Orthodox church, fought against the Western Christians and for the Mongols and he was rewarded with a helmet with Koranic verses
That isn't to denigrate the RoC, but just to point out the strange history of Russia and how it is a successor in its mind to the Caeasar and to the Mongol Khagans.
After the Revolution: Politburo, Communist Party, KGB.
After the Wall fell and the freemarketeers did their "magic": Oligarchs, Orthodox Church, FSB
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
How long before Putin clams the title Tsar in name as well as fact?
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