Patriarch Kirill will attend a session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church this summer in Yekaterinburg. “This year several meetings of the Synod will be held in different cities across Russia. This is due to the development which is currently taking place in the Russian Church, in particular, the creation of new [read more]
As time passed, what was one to do with the former Imperial family? At first, life went on as normally as could be expected. The family went out into the park together as loitering soldiers snickered as they went passed. The family planted a vegetable garden, and Nicholas began sawing up dead trees in the [read more]
On 13 March 1917(O.S. 28 February), Nicholas left for Petrograd but was unable to reach it as the railway stations were controlled by the revolutionaries. The train was stopped at Malaya Vishera and turned around. On 14 March (O.S. 1 March), the Tsar arrived in Pskov, and the Provisional Committee declared itself the governing body [read more]
The February 1917 revolution … grew out of prewar political and economic instability, technological backwardness, and fundamental social divisions, coupled with gross mismanagement of the war effort, continuing military defeats, domestic economic dislocation, and outrageous scandals surrounding the monarchy. By 1917, many Russian has lost faith in the Tsar and his regime. Corruption was rife, and [read more]
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]
The Russian Orthodox Church is likely to decide on the authenticity of the “Yekaterinburg remains”, or the remains of the last Tsar and his family, in 2018, said Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations. “The Сhurch will recognize the ‘Yekaterinburg remains’ as the true remains of the imperial family if exhaustive [read more]
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