On the Anniversary of the Murder of the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II and His Royal Family "Come, take up the cross, and follow me." said our Lord Jesus Christ to His followers, to all Christians. And for these last millennia, many souls faithful to Christ had answered this call. One of those few who to a greater degree, or at least with greater clarity in emulating Christ with his labor [podvig], fulfilled this call of the Lord was our martyr, the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II Aleksandrovich, killed forty-three years ago. Significance is assigned more accurately to historical events not in...