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The transfer of the Romanovs to Yekaterinburg

Monday, 30 April 2018, 7:00 Brittani Barger 0

Our Year of the Last Romanovs series continues with the transfer to Yekaterinburg. It was 1917, and Tsar Nicholas II was no longer on the throne. After being under house arrest, the family, who had been put on soldier’s rations, was moved from Tobolsk to the city of Yekaterinburg (also called Ekaterinburg) the following year after the Bolsheviks [read more]

Catherine the Great – The woman who adopted a nation

Saturday, 14 April 2018, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

This article was written by Kelly. Born in 1729 as Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, the young woman in question was destined for a mediocre life. Daughter of an insignificant Prussian prince, Sophie has very few prospects that would bring her and her family contentment in Prussia. With little money and no impressive dowry to match [read more]

Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna – Temporary Russian regent of Greece

Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 7:00 Brittani Barger 0

Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia was born on 3 September 1851 to Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg in Pavlovsk Palace close to St Petersburg, Russia. She was their second child and elder daughter; she was also the granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I. After a visit by 17-year-old King George I of Greece (son of King [read more]

Church not going to hinder expert work on “Yekaterinburg remains” according to Patriarch Kirill

Monday, 8 January 2018, 9:59 Moniek Bloks 0

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia spoke in a Christmas interview with Rossiya-1 television channel on Sunday, where he said that the expert work on the (presumed) remains of the last Imperial family will be completed on time. “The expert appraisal will finish when specialists finish it and say: here are the results of all tests. No one [read more]

Dagmar of Denmark – Her life as Empress (Part two)

Wednesday, 8 November 2017, 7:00 Lauralee Jacks 2

In my previous article, I have discussed the early years of Empress Maria Feodorovna. Now, this article will focus on her years as Empress. The death of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna marked the end of the age of Imperial Russia. She had lived fifty years of her life in Russia and had gained the love [read more]

The Case of Eupraxia of Kyiv

Friday, 30 June 2017, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Eupraxia of Kyiv was born circa 1070 as the daughter of Vsevolod I, Prince of Kyiv and his wife, Anna. As with many women from the medieval eastern European Kingdom of Rus’, there is very little information about her, despite the fact that she married a Holy Roman Emperor. There is just one surviving primary [read more]