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The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Eastern Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last imperial family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei – by the Russian Orthodox Church.
In the early 20th century two Romanov princesses were allowed to marry Russian high noblemen – whereas, until the 1850s, practically all marriages had been with German princelings. [11] A gathering of members of the Romanov family in 1892, at the summer military manoeuvres in Krasnoye Selo. His son Alexander III succeeded Alexander II. This ...
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia canonised several members of the Romanov household, both the family members and servants, as martyrs. The Russian Orthodox Church in Russia later canonised the family members as Passion bearers, but made no declaration about the servants. See article Romanov sainthood.
A century after the brutal murders of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, and their five children (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei), the execution of the Russian imperial ...
The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before their 1917 execution at the hands of Lenin The Romanovs' final days, as seen through the eyes of Anastasia Skip to main ...
He followed the Romanov family into internal exile following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was murdered with them by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918 at Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Republic. Like the Romanovs, Kharitonov was canonized as a passion-bearer of Soviet oppression by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in ...
The canonization of the other Alapayevsk mine martyrs was not discussed in the ROC. On March 27, 2009, Maria Vladimirovna Romanova , through her lawyer, filed an application with the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for the exoneration of the relatives of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II .
Boris and Gleb, first saints canonised in Kievan Rus'. Canonization is usually divided into two categories: local and church-wide. The church-wide canonization is always performed by the highest church organ, that is the Metropolitan or Patriarch above the Council of Eparchs, the chief member above the Most Holy Synod in the synodal period, or the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia above ...