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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BELIEVERS FLOCK TO WITNESS A WEEPING ICON

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Orthodox believers are flocking to a Moscow church to witness what many say is a minor miracle - a weeping icon of Russia's murdered Tsar Nicholas the Second.

Archpriest Vasily Golovanov of the Ascension Church in the Russian capital claims the icon oozes a steady flow of myrrh practically every day.

Golovanov says this evidence of a miracle is enough to qualify the murdered Russian Tsar for canonisation.

This is the Ascension Church in the Russian capital, Moscow.

It is here that Orthodox believers have been flocking to witness a weeping icon of Russia's murdered Tsar Nicholas the Second.

Many believe it is a minor miracle.

Archpriest Vasily Golovanov claims the icon oozes a steady flow of myrrh almost every day.

The myrrh, an oily amber-coloured substance, is said to have a subtle smell which is more noticeable on days when services are held for the murdered royal family.

One parishioner is convinced it is a miracle.

SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
One of the miraculous events you can see here in this church is a miraculous evaporating fog which appears on the glass. The icon makes miracles.
SUPER CAPTION: Parishioner

The Russian Orthodox Church stipulates proof of a miracle as one of its conditions for sainthood.

So far, the icon has received no official recognition from the Russian Orthodox Church and its leader, Patriarch Alexi the Second.

But Alexi is believed to have given his blessing for the icon to be displayed in this Moscow church.

The priest says an elderly parishioner took the icon of Tsar Nicholas to the church on November 7 last year - the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.

SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
The icon came to us during a service on the evening of the 7th. They brought it to the church. It smelt very strongly. It really is a miraculous phenomenon. It's inexplicable by physical laws.
SUPER CAPTION: Archpriest Vasily Golovanov

Since then, hundreds of witnesses are said to have witnessed the flowing myrrh.

Golovanov says this evidence of a miracle should be enough to qualify the murdered Russian royal family for canonisation.

SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
It's an encouraging signal. Russia must be reborn around the Orthodox Church and the Tsar.
SUPER CAPTION: Archpriest Vasily Golovanov

Nicholas the Second and the Russian royal family were gunned down in a cellar in the town Yekaterinburg in July 1918.

Their bones were finally buried in a ceremony in St Petersburg last summer.

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Top 10 most beautiful cathedrals and churches in Russia

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This video presents the most beautiful cathedrals and churches Russia: Annunciation Cathedral (Voronezh), Ascension Cathedral (Elec), Znamenskaya church (Dubrovytsia), St. Isaac's Cathedral (St. Petersburg), Novoyarmarochny St. Alexander Nevsky
Cathedral (Nizhny Novgorod), St. Basil's Cathedral (Moscow), Transfiguration Cathedral (Dzerzhinsk), Trinity Cathedral (Saint Petersburg), Trinity Cathedral (Pskov), Church of the Savior on Blood (Saint-Petersburg)

Trans-Siberian Railway - Yekaterinburg

Third leg of the Trans-Siberian Railway is Yekaterinburg. This is the longest non-stop train ride since we left Singapore - 31hrs! We heard English announcements when we arrived at our destination train station. It was so refreshing for a change. Yekaterinburg has a special meaning to me since I have read and watched many videos about the history of the last Tsar and his family. It made me intrigued and this is definitely a place that I need to visit. Armed with the background knowledge, seeing the sights and monuments had a new meaning to me.

Video was shot using iPhone 6s and edited on iMovie app and FlimoraGo.

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This is a multi part series of my travel from Singapore to Russia by land:

Part One - Singapore to Bangkok


Part Two - Bangkok to Cambodia


Part Three - Cambodia to Vietnam


Part Four - Vietnam to Beijing


Part Five - Beijing to Mongolia


Part Six - Mongolia to Irkutsk


Part Seven - Krasnoyarsk, Russia


Part Eight - Yekaterinburg, Russia


Part Nine - Kazan, Russia


Part Ten - Moscow, Russia


Finale - St Petersburg, Russia

HISTORICAL PLACES OF RUSSIA IN GOOGLE EARTH PART THREE ( 3/9 )

ALEXANDER NEVSKY CHURCH,MOSKOVSKAYA 55°43'45.61N 36°51'38.14E
ANICHKOV PALACE,ST PTERSBURG 59°55'58.69N 30°20'26.71E
OSSETIAN CHURCH,VLADIKAVKAZ 43° 1'11.79N 44°41'9.58E
ÄCEM MOSQUE,KAZAN 55°46'9.11N 49° 6'55.60E
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION,MOSKOVSKAYA 55°43'49.11N 36°51'4.34E
MOTHER OF GOD MONASTERY,BELLTOWER, KAZAN 55°47'37.05N 49° 6'47.00E
TZARYCINO, THE GRAND PALLACE,MOSCOW 55°36'56.01N 37°40'55.81E
APANAEVSKAYA MOSQUE, KAZAN 55°46'40.28N 49° 7'9.48E
(OLD WATER TOWER) TOWER SARUMYANA,UFA 54°43'19.73N 55°55'8.09E
TSARITSYNО,CHURCH OF OUR LADY,MOSCOW 55°37'0.98N 37°40'53.14E
MOSQUE OF AL-MARJANI,KAZAN 55°46'47.62N 49° 7'3.46E
YELAGIN PALACE, ST PETERSBURG 59°58'45.47N 30°16'11.56E
MONUMENT TO SALAVAT YULAEV,UFA 54°43'6.70N 55°55'33.20E
MONUMENT TO RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, KAZAN 55°48'3.52N 49° 4'38.97E
GRAND KREMLIN PALACE, MOSCOW 55°45'0.36N 37°36'56.87E
THE MEMORIAL GRIEVING MOTHER,UFA 54°49'3.34N 56° 3'23.87E
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, YEKATERINBURG 56°50'39.71N 60°36'32.15E
CHURCH OF HOLY PLACE,PSKOV 57°49'36.40N 28°20'11.26E
VOLGA EMBANKMENT 2A, YAROSLAVL 57°37'30.28N 39°54'4.27E
CATHEDRAL OF HOLY MOTHER,MOSKOVSKAYA 55°43'59.11N 36°50'24.77E

В.Путин.Встреча с Патриархом.27.05.04.Part 1

Meeting with Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexii II and Metropolitan Lavr, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.Part 1
May 27, 2004
Novo-Ogaryovo

Встреча с Патриархом Московским и всея Руси Алексием Вторым, Первоиерархом Русской Православной Зарубежной Церкви митрополитом Лавром и архиепископом Берлинско-Германским и Великобританским Марком
27 мая 2004 года
Ново-Огарево

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: Your Holiness, dear guests,Allow me to wish you a warm welcome here to the Moscow Region. I am very pleased that the different parts of the Russian Orthodox Church are drawing together in such a positive way. I will not say the two churches because in the Russian peoples mind the Russian Orthodox Church is one. I am very happy to see that following our meeting in New York, the clergy that stood up for, defended and spread the ideas of Orthodoxy beyond Russias borders have finally come to the Russian Federation, seen with their own eyes or seen once again, for some the positive process of our peoples spiritual renaissance.I followed your visit with attention and I can imagine that our guests are satisfied with the very full programme a very complicated and difficult programme too, it is true that was drawn up and practically fully realised. I have no doubt that this will benefit the Church and benefit Russia.I welcome you from all my heart and I give you, Your Holiness, the floor. Please. ALEXII II: I would like to give you my sincere thanks for finding the opportunity to receive our guests and ourselves as delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church abroad comes to the end of its programme here in Russia. You extended the invitation while visiting New York, and now this historic event has taken place.As I have already said several times, this is the first time a delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, headed by the First Hierarch, has visited Russia, the first time such a visit has not been incognito. Previously, such visits were made incognito, while now our guests have had the chance to truly become acquainted with the life of the Russian Orthodox Church today, to attend services, to pray with us together and to see our Orthodox people who are returning to their spiritual traditions.The programme was a very full one. In just a short time, only a week, the delegation visited Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Sarov, Diveyevo, St. Petersburg and Kursk.I met with the entire official delegation, with the pilgrims, today at 1 p.m. They were all in a very positive mood and the programme did not exhaust them, rather, it gave them inspiration. That is how it seemed to me.I think our guests will have their own words to say, but everywhere they went they were struck by the peoples desire to serve God and by the revival of spiritual life. They noted this in their addresses. They said that here they will speak quietly of their impressions, but back home, before their own flocks, their own parishioners, they will speak loud and clear about what they saw, what they witnessed here. I think this truly bears out the words that it is better to see once than to hear many times. We are grateful to Metropolitan Lavr and his entire delegation because their visit took place in a spirit of openness, goodwill, mutual understanding and the desire to come closer together and find ways to overcome the difficulties that arose as a result of the tragic events of the 1917 revolution and the civil war that forced millions of our compatriots to leave the country. The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad took care of their spiritual needs over this time. We lived through difficulties of our own, as did they. Metropolitan Lavr said to me at the Ascension Cathedral, on Ascension Day, What churches you have! Ours are small. But within these churches could always be found love for the Motherland, love for Russia and this Orthodox faith that was handed down from generation to generation. I think that the first generation, the generation that left Russia, would be happy now. But it is now the second and third generations that are making the return journey, coming back to and uniting with the Motherland and the Russian Orthodox Church.In the documents we emphasised that the Church is one, and you also spoke these words. The Church is one only circumstances divided us. Let us hope that this is only a temporary situation. Thank you for taking the first step and passing on my invitation for the delegation to visit the Russian Orthodox Church, and thank you for finding the time to receive our guests today.

HISTORICAL PLACES OF RUSSIA IN GOOGLE EARTH PART FOUR ( 4/9 )

CHURCH OF ASCENSION, SVERDLOVSKAYA 56°50'41.30N 60°36'45.94E
MOSCOW TRIUMPHAL GATE,ST PETERSBURG 59°53'28.97N 30°19'9.86E
SUNNI MOSQUE, VLADIKAVKAZ 43° 1'33.51N 44°40'33.23E
KHARITONOV'S MANOR-HOUSE,YEKATERINBURG 56°50'44.59N 60°36'40.54E
TOWER THUNDER(GROMOVAYA TOWER),SMOLENSK 54°46'47.89N 32° 2'37.49E
HOLY TRANSFIGURATION CATHEDRAL,ST PETERSBURG
59°56'34.55N 30°21'8.76E
ANCIENT GOSTINNYJ COURTYARD,NOVGOROD 58°31'6.14N 31°16'58.18E
LENIN MONUMENT, ARKHANGELSK 64°32'24.16N 40°30'57.03E
MOSQUE,UFA 54°49'10.41N 56° 3'20.57E
FIRST UFA CATHEDRAL MOSQUE,UFA 54°42'52.87N 55°56'58.17E
SPASO-CONVERT.CATHEDRAL CHURCH,YAROSLAVL 57°37'17.79N 39°53'20.63E
CHRIST THE SAVIOUR CATHEDRAL,KALININGRAD 54°43'15.63N 20°30'13.01E
RUSSIAN MUSEUM, ST PERTERSBURG 59°56'19.21N 30°19'56.70E
CATHERINE PALACE, PUSHKIN 59°42'59.13N 30°23'40.15E
MONUMENT BAYONHETS, MOSCOW 56° 0'52.14N 37°12'31.59E
ANCIENT BRIDGE, YAROSLAVL 57°37'58.50N 39°53'30.90E
SUMMER PALACE OF PETER,ST PETERSBURG 59°56'50.13N 30°20'9.71E
VICTORY MONUMENT, MOSCOW 55°43'54.10N 37°30'25.62E
CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION,NOVGOROD 58°31'2.83N 31°17'44.03E
ALEXANDER NEVSKY CATHEDRAL, YEKATERINBURG 56°49'22.20N 60°35'55.24E

Walking Around Church of the Savior on Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (Russian: Церковь Спаса на Крови, Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi) is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood (Russian: Церковь на Крови, Tserkov' na Krovi) and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ (Russian: Собор Воскресения Христова, Sobor Voskreseniya Khristova), its official name.

The preferred Russian name for this great church is Храм Спаса на Крови (Khram Spasa na Krovi), but each English-language tourist publication seems to list it under a different name. The name Spilled Blood is most popular in preference to the likes of the Church of the Resurrection, Church of our Savior on the Blood, Cathedral of the Ascension, Resurrection of the Christ, or Assumption, Church of the Redeemer, or any permutation of the above.[1]

This Church was built on the site where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated and was dedicated in his memory. It should not to be confused with the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land, located in the city of Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II (1868--1918) and several members of his family and household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution.

Russia - Yeltsin On Campaign Trail

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President Boris Yeltsin in Novocherkassk on Tuesday (11/6) continued to campaign for votes, five days ahead of approaching presidential elections, with an attack on Communists.

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NOVOCHERKASSK, RUSSIA 11/6
motorcade on the road from Rostov to Novocherkassk;
Russian president, Boris Yeltsin through farming field,
talking to collective farm workers;
Yeltsin lays flowers at the monument to Cossack Ataman Platov;
Yeltsin receives a cossak sabre;
Yeltsin lays flowers on the monument to the victims of the violent
suppression of a workers rally in 1962;
Yeltsin visits meeting and talks with cossacks on Novocherkassk'
Cathedral Square;
Yeltsin visits and lays flowers in the Cathedral of Holy Ascension.
Yeltsin lighting candle;
CU of candle;
WS of choir being conducted in balcony of church eave;
WS exterior of church;

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Российская Империя. Александр II. Часть первая.
* Воспитание будущего императора.
* Окончание Кавказской войны.
* Отмена крепостного права и другие реформы.
* Подробности продажи Аляски.
* История создания журнала «Современник».
* Присоединение Средней Азии.
* Русский ситец как высшее достижение отечественной лёгкой промышленности.
* Василий Верещагин — художник протеста.

Alexei Korzukhin Paintings!

Alexey Ivanovich Korzukhin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Корзухин; 23 March 1835, Perm Governorate — 30 October 1894, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian genre painter.
He was born into a family of gold prospectors near Yekaterinburg. As a young man, he worked in a local railway factory and the mint. He had started painting when he was still a child so, in 1858, he entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Pyotr Basin and Fyodor Bruni. In 1861, he was awarded a gold medal and a stipend for travelling expenses. However, in 1863, he became a member of the Revolt of the Fourteen, a group of students who favored Realism and were protesting the Academy's insistence on painting in the Classical style. He and the others withdrew from the Academy, accepting the designation of Artist Second-Class. Shortly thereafter, he joined the Artel of Artists, an artistic commune, and remained with them until they disbanded in 1871. He also became a member of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki) and taught drawing at the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts.
In 1865, his painting Wake in the Village Cemetery earned him the rank of Artist First-Class and, three years later, he was named an Academician. In addition to his paintings of daily life, he did portraits and religious works. These include icons and depictions of the Four Fathers of the Church at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour; wall paintings at the Ascension Cathedral in Yelets; and thirteen images for the narthex of Nativity Cathedral, Riga. He also exhibited widely, including the Second Annual International Exhibition in London (1872), the Weltausstellung in Vienna (1873) and the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia (1876).
He was a witness to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. This resulted in severe nervous shock and he never fully recovered his health.

Алексе́й Ива́нович Корзу́хин (11 [23] марта 1835, Пермская губерния — 18 [30] октября 1894, Санкт-Петербург) — русский жанровый живописец, академик Императорской Академии художеств, участник «бунта четырнадцати», один из учредителей Санкт-Петербургской Артели художников и Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок.

Alexeï Ivanovitch Korzoukhine (en russe : Алексей Иванович Корзухин), né le 23 mars 1835 à Iekaterinbourg, mort le 30 octobre 1894 à Saint-Pétersbourg, est un peintre russe.
En 1858 il commence ses études à l'Académie impériale des beaux-arts de Saint-Pétersbourg. En 1860, il remporte le premier prix pour son tableau Le Père ivre. En 1864, il participe à la fondation de l'artel des artistes, après la Révolte des Quatorze.
Korzoukhine reçoit le grade d'artiste du premier degré pour sa toile Commémoration dans un cimetière de campagne (1865) et celui d'académicien pour Le Père de retour de la foire. En 1870, il est membre fondateur du groupe artistique des Ambulants. En 1891, il peint La Cène du Seigneur pour une cathédrale de Riga.
Il doit sans doute sa célébrité à ses nombreux portraits, tous remarquables pour leur subtile profondeur psychologique.

[Kazakhstan] Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Benediction

Outside Church of the Savior on Blood in Saint Petersburg, Russia

he Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (Russian: Церковь Спаса на Крови, Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi) is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood (Russian: Церковь на Крови, Tserkov’ na Krovi) and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ (Russian: Собор Воскресения Христова, Sobor Voskreseniya Khristova), its official name.

The preferred Russian name for this great church is Храм Спаса на Крови (Khram Spasa na Krovi), but each English-language tourist publication seems to list it under a different name. The name Spilled Blood is most popular in preference to the likes of the Church of the Resurrection, Church of our Savior on the Blood, Cathedral of the Ascension, Resurrection of the Christ, or Assumption, Church of the Redeemer, or any permutation of the above.[1]

This Church was built on the site where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated and was dedicated in his memory. It should not be confused with the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land, located in the city of Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II (1868–1918) and several members of his family and household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution.

Волгоградцы почтили память жертв политических репрессий.

30 октября в России отмечается День памяти жертв политических репрессий.
Центральное благочиние Волгоградской епархии присоединилось к всероссийской акции «Молитва памяти». Акция носит не политический характер, заключается в совершении поминовения безвинно убиенных в советские годы.

В прошлом году данная акция проводилась рядом с храмом Урюпинской иконы Божией Матери. В течении 2 часов были помянуты имена репрессированных жителей Сталинградской области, записанные в первой (из трёх) книге «Петля: Воспоминания, очерки, документы».

По данным епархиальной комиссии по канонизации святых, в Царицыне и Сталинградской области при советской власти было репрессировано более тысячи священнослужителей. Среди них первый святой, прославленный в Волгоградской епархии, священномученик Николай Попов; местночтимый святой Калачевской епархии, священномученик Петр Никотин (расстрелян в 1937 году на Бутовском полигоне); последний настоятель Александро-Невского собора Царицына, новомученик, протоиерей Иаков Горохов; настоятель Вознесенской церкви протоирей Алексей Лебедев, священнослужители Казанского собора Царицына — протоиерей Алексей Могилин и протодиакон Тимофей Акимов и сотни других имен.
Всероссийский день памяти жертв советских репрессий — 30 октября официально установлен в 1991 году. В этот день имена репрессированных традиционно читают у Соловецкого камня и на Бутовском полигоне в Москве, в Петербурге и Екатеринбурге, в других регионах России — у памятников жертвам политических репрессий, в местах массовых расстрелов, а также там, где стояли раньше взорванные и разрушенные в советское время храмы.

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10 Best Places to Visit in Russia.
Russia, once the largest and most powerful member of the former USSR, nonetheless remains a fascinating country to visit. It is a country of contrasts, from great subtropical beaches to bitterly cold winter regions in the north. The east may have fewer people, but its lovely cities are among the most popular places to visit in Russia and can hold their own against the west. Russia is steeped in history everywhere a traveler goes, from vicious battles to great classical music and literature. And almost everywhere visitors can see examples of magnificent art, not only in museums but also in its churches.
10. Yekaterinburg
9. Sochi
8. Veliky Novgorod
7. Vladivostok
6. Nizhny Novgorod
5. Irkutsk
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Nicholas II of Russia | Wikipedia audio article

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Nicholas II of Russia


00:03:16 1 Family background
00:06:34 2 Tsarevich
00:09:51 3 Engagement, accession and marriage
00:13:43 4 Reign
00:13:52 4.1 Coronation
00:17:55 4.2 Initiatives in foreign affairs
00:18:52 4.3 Ecclesiastical affairs
00:19:40 4.4 Russo-Japanese War
00:22:47 4.5 Anti-Jewish pogroms of 1903–1906
00:23:48 4.6 Bloody Sunday (1905)
00:28:08 4.7 1905 Revolution
00:31:49 4.8 Relationship with the Duma
00:41:58 4.9 Tsarevich Alexei's illness and Rasputin
00:44:33 4.10 European affairs
00:46:48 4.11 Tercentenary
00:47:26 4.12 First World War
00:56:40 4.13 Collapse
01:01:25 4.13.1 Abdication (1917)
01:04:41 4.14 Imprisonment
01:08:10 4.15 Execution
01:11:32 5 Identification
01:13:22 6 Funeral
01:14:12 7 Sainthood
01:16:19 8 Assessment
01:19:54 9 Ancestry
01:20:03 10 Titles, styles, honours and arms
01:20:14 10.1 Titles and styles
01:21:29 10.2 Honours
01:22:12 10.2.1 National
01:22:39 10.2.2 Foreign
01:23:30 10.3 Arms
01:23:38 11 Children
01:23:47 12 Wealth
01:25:01 13 Documentaries and films
01:25:37 14 See also
01:25:53 15 Note



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Nicholas II or Nikolai II (Russian: Николай II Алекса́ндрович, tr. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918), known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 2 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody or Vile Nicholas by his political adversaries due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the execution of political opponents, and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). Soviet historians portrayed Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects.Russia was defeated in the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War which saw the annihilation of the reinforcing Russian Baltic Fleet after being sent on its round-the-world cruise at the naval Battle of Tsushima, off the coasts of Korea and Japan, the loss of Russian influence over Manchuria and Korea, and the Japanese annexation to the north of South Sakhalin Island. The Anglo-Russian Entente was designed to counter the German Empire's attempts to gain influence in the Middle East, but it also ended the Great Game of confrontation between Russia and the United Kingdom. When all Russian diplomatic efforts to prevent the First World War (1914–1918) failed, Nicholas approved the Imperial Russian Army mobilization on 30 July 1914 which gave Imperial Germany formal grounds to declare war on Russia on 1 August 1914. An estimated 3.3 million Russians were killed in the First World War. The Imperial Russian Army's severe losses, the High Command's incompetent management of the war efforts, and lack of food and supplies on the home front were all leading causes of the fall of the House of Romanov.
Following the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son and heir, the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich. He and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer 1917. On 30 April 1918, Nicholas, Alexandra, and their daughter Maria were handed over to the local Ural Soviet council in Ekaterinburg (renamed Sverdlovsk during the Soviet era); the rest of the captives followed on 23 May. Nicholas and his family were executed by their Bolshevik guards on the night of 16/17 July 1918. The remains of the imperial family were later found, exhumed, identified and re-interred with elaborate State and Church ceremony in St. Petersburg on 17 July 1998 – 80 years later.
In 1981, Nicholas, his wife, and their children were recognized as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outsid ...

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