News archive on the topic "Nicholas II"

A monument dedicated to the meeting of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II with his bride, Princess Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt, was opened today in the Seaside Park of Alushta. The composition also depicts the Grand Ducal couple: Sergei Alexandrovich, uncle of Tsarevich Nicholas, and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. The event was held on the initiative of the Double-Headed Eagle Society for the Development of Russian Historical Education, with the support of the Elisabeth-Sergius Educational Foundation…

In Dnepropetrovsk, Orthodox Christians celebrated the anniversary of the arrival of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, in the city. This was reported by the Uniate Religious Information Service with reference to Dniprograd. “On February 13, a column of Orthodox Christians of the Moscow Patriarchate passed along the central avenue of the Dnieper, who thus celebrated the anniversary of the arrival of the Russian Tsar in Yekaterinoslav,” the report notes. “The Muscovites have their own “procession of the cross” (that’s exactly what Ukrainian journalists do...

The Federation Council will send an appeal to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation with a request to reconsider the results of the all-Russian vote within the framework of the “Great Names of Russia” project on naming the Murmansk airport after the last Emperor Nicholas II. Senator from the Murmansk region Igor Chernyshenko made a corresponding initiative during a meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The all-Russian voting on the project “Great Names of Russia” recently ended...

The Public Chamber of the Murmansk Region appealed to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation with a request not to approve the results of the online voting on naming the Murmansk airport after Nicholas II. TASS reports this, citing the chairman of the regional OP Yuri Manankov, according to whom, all members of the chamber who were present at the last plenary meeting voted for the decision to send the corresponding letter. “The public in the region actively opposed...

The Tsargrad TV channel, on the air of which State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya made a sensational statement about the myrrh-streaming of the bust of Nicholas II in Simferopol, today showed footage of the myrrh-streaming of an icon of the royal family in a chapel located near the monument to the emperor in the capital of Crimea. “Today, March 8, 2017, another fact of the icon’s myrrh streaming in the chapel of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers in Simferopol was witnessed. Appearance...

Rossiyskaya Gazeta journalist Ilya Izotov reported that he checked the statement of State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who said the day before that the bust of Emperor Nicholas II, recently installed in Simferopol, began to leak myrrh. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Bust of Nicholas II at the prosecutor’s chapel in Simferopol. I was personally convinced that it was covered with an oily film. But…

Priest Andrei Novikov, the former secretary of the Odessa diocese, who was forced to leave Ukraine after the Euromaidan victory, stood up for State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who said the day before that the bust of Emperor Nicholas II, recently installed in Simferopol, began to leak myrrh. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte “God save Natalia Poklonskaya! The fact that she comes with an open visor...

In Simferopol, a bust of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, canonized by the Orthodox Church, installed near the prosecutor's office of Crimea, was poured with myrrh. The former prosecutor of the republic, Natalya Poklonskaya, now a State Duma deputy, reported this on air on the Tsargrad TV channel. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte “My employees are calling from Crimea, from the prosecutor’s office, who are taking care of the chapel.…

On Friday, a religious procession was held in the center of Kyiv in memory of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II. Unlike previous years, participants did not use imperial flags, as this could provoke attacks by Ukrainian nationalists, which had already happened several years before Euromaidan. Let us recall that the royal family was shot on July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg. Subscribe...