| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Are You a True Christian? Navigation Cross Vandalized at Russian Royal Family Memorial near Yekaterinburg The memorial cross has been vandalized in the place outside Yekaterinburg, where the remains of Russian Tsar Nicholas II " s children, Alexey and Maria, were discovered, said Archaeologist Sergey Pogorelov. admin 26 June 2012 Yekaterinburg, June 25, Interfax – The memorial cross has been vandalized in the place outside Yekaterinburg, where the remains of Russian Tsar Nicholas II’s children, Alexey and Maria, were discovered, said Archaeologist Sergey Pogorelov. “My colleagues visited the place yesterday, examined the surrounding territory and found the cross in the shrubs nearby. The cross had been pulled out, removed and thrown away,” Pogorelov, a researcher at the regional center for the protection of historical and cultural heritage, told Interfax on Monday. “It is an outrageous act of hooliganism, or a provocation,” the archaeologist said. After the royal family was executed at Ipatyev House in Yekaterinburg in 1918, the bodies were moved to an abandoned mine, Ganina Yama, not far from the city and thrown into a well. The well was not deep enough to hide the bodies, so they were lifted to be moved to another place. As the convoy was moving it got stuck in a marshy area, called Porosyonkov Log, where the Bolsheviks dug a pit, and dumped the bodies into it after pouring sulfuric acid onto them. Nine of the 12 bodies were buried in the same place, and the two others, those of Crown Prince Alexey and his sister Maria, were buried separately in a forest. The first remains were discovered back in 1978, but excavation work had not been done until 1991. Alexey’s and Maria’s remains were found much later, in 2007. All bones were put through numerous laboratory tests, historical, archaeological and archive studies have been conducted, and anthropologists, dentists and genetics scientists examined them, which led to the conclusion that the remains found were those of members of the royal family. |
| After the transfer to Ekaterinburg of several members of Nicholas II’s family along with persons from his circle of friends, the following people on 30 April 1918 were placed under house-arrest in the home of N.N. Ipatiev [usually known as the “Ipatiev House”]: Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaevna, physician to the royal family Professor E.S. Botkin, the valet T.I. Chemodurov, and the lady’s maid A.S. Demidova. On the same day, V.A. Dolgorukov and I.D. Sednev were put in prison. On 23 May 1918, from the city of Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg were transferred Tsarevich Alexei Nicholaevich, and Grand Duchesses Olga Nicholaevna, Tatiana Nicholaevna and Anastasia Nicholaevna, who were all placed in the Ipatiev House. Together with them also arrived a large group of servants and people from their circle of friends. In the Ipatiev House were placed the boy L. Sednev and the manservant A.E. Troop. The valet T.I. Chemodurov was transferred from the Ipatiev House to prison in Ekaterinburg. Immediately after the arrival in Ekaterinberg of the above-named group, the following were arrested and put in prison: I.L. Tatischev, [maid of honor] A. V. Gendrikova, [children’s instructress] E.A. Shneider, K.G. Nagornyi and A.A. Volkov. On the night of 16-17 July 1918 in the city of Ekaterinburg in the home of engineer N.N. Ipatiev were shot the [following] members of the Russian imperial house: Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov, Empress Alexandrovna Feodorovna Romanova, the successor to the throne Tsarevich Alexei Nicholaevich Romanov[age 13], [the Tsar’s 4 daughters, ages 17-22:] Grand Duchesses Olga Nicholaevna Romanova, Tatiana Nicholaevna Romanova, Maria Nicholaevna Romanova, and Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanova. Together with them were shot physician-in-ordinary E.S. Botkin, servants A.S. Demidov and A.E. Troop, and the cook I.M. Kharitonov. The fact of the shooting and death of the royal family and servants is common knowledge, but few people know that together with the family of the former Emperor, totally innocent people from among the servants also underwent repression —people who voluntarily followed the family into exile, helped the dethroned Tsar, or had some kind of contact with the royal family. In essence, these people voluntarily chose the path of selfless devotion and death. The repressions of these people did not end in 1919, but continued into the 1920’s and 1930’s. Unfortunately, the fate of many of these people, voluntarily having gone into exile, is now unknown, as also unknown are the full personal particulars of several of the sufferers; but that does not deprive them of the right to rehabilitation, and does not deprive their descendants of the right to be proud of their ancestors. |
| (Kadom was historically located at a distance of nine kilometers from today’s Kadom. For reasons not precisely known but presumably due to flooding, the people resettled in the mid sixteenth century to the Kadom of today). This monastery was committed to missionary work among the local people. In 1653, the St. Nicholas Cherneev Monastery was founded near the town of Shatsk, under the particular protection of the local Cossacks. (Near Shatsk is the town of Vysha, now famous for the monastery were St. Theophan the Recluse lived and wrote his well-known spiritual volumes.) In 1659, Sanaxar Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God was founded in Temnikov, Mordovia, sixty kilometers from Kadom; the first brothers there came from the Old Kadom Holy Trinity Monastery. And last but not least of the monasteries founded in that short period of time was the Holy Dormition Sarov Monastery, which dates its beginning to the year 1664, and is located 100 kilometers from Kadom. Although the beneficial effect over time on the people of these regions is undeniable, the arrival of monks was not greeted warmly at first by the pagan Mordovians and Muslim Tatars. This was partly for purely material reasons: the monasteries were given lands that the local people wanted to use. But as people began to convert, they also met resistance from their own kinsmen. For example, the founder of the Cherneev monastery, Abbot Matthew, wrote to the Tsar: “The Mordovians do not allow me to use the forests or fell trees. And because I baptized many women and children, around twelve souls, and others of the Mordva desire baptism, the unbaptized Mordva cause us great trouble and threaten to defile the church and cast me and the brothers out into the steppe. And they steal our cattle and foul, and they burned our monastery beehives.” In response to this letter, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov granted the monastery more lands, and ordered the Shatsk administration to guard the monastery. The largest push for baptism came under Tsar Peter the Great. |
| Over 100,000 People Participate in Religious Procession at Night of Commemorating Execution of the Tsar’s Family Photo: facebook.com Moscow, July 19, Interfax – Dozens of thousands believers who arrived in Yekaterinburg to the Tsar Days participated in a religious procession from the Church on the Blood to the monastery in Ganina Yama, the Information Policy Department of the Sverdlovsk Region Governor reports. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia headed the procession. On the eve, on July 16, he chaired the Divine Liturgy at the square before the church. “Learning from this hard and bitter experience we should form stable rejection of any ideas and any leaders who offer new unknown happy future breaking our national life, our traditions, our faith,” the patriarch said during the liturgy. The patriarch conducted a prayer service when he came to the monastery. The participants in the procession with cross overcame 21 km. Mobile emergency groups accompanied believers, there were buses on duty for those who were not able to cover the whole way. The procession with cross is one of the key events of the Tsar days conducted to commemorate the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. At night on July 17 the believers follow the route, by which in 1918 remains of the Romanov family were carried for elimination to the pit at Ganina Yama from the place of their execution in the Ipatyev House, where later the Church on the Blood was erected. Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. Also by this author Today " s Articles Most viewed articles Functionality is temporarily unavailable. Most popular authors Functionality is temporarily unavailable. © 2008-2024 Pravmir.com |
| Having begun on that tragic note, recalling the terrible events in the Ukraine of ninety years ago, we give our due thanks to the memory of those murdered, and we are obligated to remember also the whole life’s path of this remarkable priest, his twenty-five years of the priesthood, his pastoral and pedagogical activities that on December 7, 1914 the Orthodox people of Kharkov celebrated; and this was in fact a notable event for the whole Church, in that N. S. Stellitsky’s theological works were well known throughout Russia. The Kharkov University At that time Fr. Nicholai was an archpriest of the Antoniev University church (during Soviet times, the “Youth” theatre occupied this building, and in more recent times, the Ukrainian cultural center). After the celebration the archpriest was presented with an icon of St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker and a commemorative speech. Archbishop Anthony Khrapovitsky and member of the State Council and history professor D. I. Bagalei participated in the service and celebration, along with a multitude of other people. By that time Fr. Nicholai was already a famous Orthodox theologian, awarded by the Tsar in 1908 with the Order of St. Anna, 3rd degree, and in 1912, with the 4th degree. Nicholai Semenovich Stelletsky was born in 1862 near Kharkov, in the village of Muraf, Bogodukhov county, to the family of a priest. After graduating from the Kharkov theological seminary he completed the Kiev theological academy (1888) as a masters candidate of theology, where he was left to prepare for the professorial vocation. Having received ordination into the priesthood, he began his pastoral service in the Kiev Riverside St. Nicholas Church. At the same time, he served as a teacher of the Law of God in Kiev high schools, and as inspector of the periodical, Southwest School . Having defended his master’s dissertation in 1893, he served in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. In 1909 he was chosen as professor and head of the theology department in the Kharkov University, and at the same time was appointed archpriest of the Antoniev University church. He also bore the sizeable load of theology professor in the Kharkov Higher Courses for women, the Higher Medical Courses for women, the Higher commercial courses for the Kharkov merchants’ society, and served as president of the council for the Kharkov diocesan women’s school. |
| Moreover, the Church has never recognized the authenticity of the Romanovs’ bodily remains (the bodies of Nicholas, Alexandra and three daughters) discovered in a forest pit in the Urals and transferred in 1998 to St. Petersburg’s Peter and Paul Fortress, the traditional Romanov mausoleum, in a ceremony from which church leaders were notably absent. (At the Holy Synod’s insistence, the priest performing the reburial was forbidden to refer to his subjects by name.) Last September, however, when a government-backed committee announced that what are believed to be the “missing” remains of Grand Duchess Marie and Tsarevich Alexei (only discovered in 2007 and since kept in Moscow’s State Archives) were to be laid to rest alongside those of their father, mother and siblings, almost a century after separation on the night of their execution in the basement of the Ekaterinburg mansion, the Church secured an investigation to verify the authenticity of all of the murdered family’s remains. Should the tests prove positive (as is expected), the bodily remains of Russia’s last tsar and his family will finally be recognized as being saintly relics and a legitimate object of Orthodox veneration, the family reunited in a rite befitting its holy status that will surely attract president and patriarch alike. Results are expected in February. Of course, the Romanovs’ hold over Russians shouldn’t be exaggerated. Only for a minority will the putative reburial represent a significant spiritual event. But for Russia as a whole, it will serve as another opportunity for the Russian Orthodox Church to signal its special relationship with the Russian state and its claim on the spiritual lives of all Russians. This devotion to Russia’s last tsar will strike many in the West as macabre, and as a sinister piece of political theater—evidence of that “evil collusion” between church and state that smothers the shoots of freedom and democracy in a blanket of conservatism. Though elevating any political leader as far as sainthood is inconceivable in the modern West, its possibility in Russia highlights the cultural distance that separates it from the secular liberalism that defines life in the West today. |
| Tweet Нравится Patriarch Kirill to lead Ural celebrations for centenary of Romanov family martyrdom Moscow, February 20, 2017 Photo: Pravoslavie.Ru His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is planning to head the commemorative events that will take place next year in the Sverdlovsk region in honor of the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Royal Martyrs, Tsar Nicholas II and his family, reports Interfax-Religion . Sverdlosk governor Eugene Kuivashevim noted that the main event will be on the night of July 17, 2018, and invited the patriarch to attend and lead the services, saying, “We are preparing for this event with the Ekaterinburg Diocese and, of course, we want to invite you to participate in the celebrations which will be dedicated to this tragic date.” In return, His Holiness stated, “As next year will be the centenary, we must do everything to go on this pilgrimage, if we will be alive and healthy.” He stressed that the date is a momentous one for the Urals, for the whole Russian Church, for the people, and for history. “I have long wanted to visit Ekaterinburg during these days, to go on the cross procession and pray with the people,” Patriarch Kirill stated. The members of the Royal Family, along with Dr. Eugene Botkin and three servants accepted a martyr’s death in the night of July 17, 1918 in the basement of engineer Ipatiev’s house in Ekaterinburg. Since September 2012 there has been a Liturgy in the night of the seventeenth of each month in the Church-on-the-Blood built on the site where the Romanovs were martyred. Every year, following the Liturgy on the night of July 17 there is a cross procession from the church to the monastery at Ganina Yama (13 miles from Ekaterinburg), where their holy bodies were disposed of, in which tens of thousands participate. The Royal Martyrs—Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei—and their servants were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on November 1, 1981, and the family on August 20, 2000 by the Moscow Patriarchate, with Dr. Eugene Botkin’s canonization following on February 3, 2016. |
| God’s Sunflower: On St. John (Maximovitch) of Tobolsk St. John (Maximovitch), Metropolitan of Tobolsk, whose memory we celebrate today, is today best known by many only as the ancestor and patron saint of St. John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker , Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco. Yet the life of the first St. John (Maximovitch) is at least as remarkable as that of the second, as demonstrated by the following sermon, originally given in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas and Ioasaph in Belgorod. Our Holy Church celebrates the memory of St. John, Metropolitan of Tobolsk, on June 23. He was the last Russian saint to be glorified by the Church in pre-revolutionary, tsarist times. To a certain extent, the canonization of the God-pleaser John could only have taken place thanks to the personal insistence of the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II and his most august spouse, the Tsarina-Martyr Alexandra Feodorovna, who shared a profound veneration for the Siberian wonderworker. In the resolution of Nicholas II regarding the canonization of the saint, we read: “I believe in the intercession of St. John (Maximovitch) in this time of travails for Orthodox Rus’.” Like St. Ioasaph of Belgorod, he was a native of the Ukraine and a descendent of an ancient noble family. He was born in the middle of the seventeenth century, in 1651, as the oldest son in a family with seven more sons. His pious parents strove to provide him with the best education then available. After giving him a wholly church-centered upbringing at home, they gave their first-born son to the Kiev Theological Academy, where he grew close to the ascetic strugglers in the Kiev-Caves Lavra; he himself became a monk around the age of twenty-four. With the general consent of the monastery brethren, the young monk was given the important obedience of preaching. There is evidence that the future saint’s preaching activity in the Lavra lasted for five years. Only three of the sermons he gave in those years have come down to us. Composed in accessible, conversational language, and free from rhetorical devices, these works of the young ascetic were full of life. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Are You a True Christian? Navigation Nicholas II’s doctor, servants may be canonized Source: Interfax-religion Natalya Mihailova 08 October 2015 Moscow, October 8, Interfax - The Russian Church may canonize the doctor of Russia " s last emperor Nicholas II Yevgeny Botkin and his three servants. Yevgeny Botkin A proposal to this effect was made by the Yekaterinburg diocese. The issue is expected to be discussed at a meeting of the Holy Synod, Archpriest Alexy Kulberg, first aide to Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Kiril, told Interfax-Religion. “We have no information that the life of these four loyal servants of the tsar was sinful and that they did anything in the course of their lives that would tarnish them as Christians. Enough materials have been collected on their life an death, which indicate not only the highest quality of life of these people as citizens, but also the fact that they lived a good, righteous Christian life,” he said. “The loyalty that those people manifested by following the tsar’s family to Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg is not ‘just words’,” he said. “Read the story of the tsar’s family after the tsar’s abdication, how people who before that had come in crowds, trying to get the slightest benefit from the tsar’s family, instantly turned a way, disappeared, and shunned their acquaintance with the tsar’s family. They felt that it smelled of blood and retreated. But the four servants stayed loyal and voluntarily gave their lives, fulfilling the Christian commandment on love and faithfulness,” he said. The priest said that people in the Urals have a special attitude to Yevgeny Botkin, as well as the other three tsar’s servants who suffered together with the tsar’s family. “That attitude is reflected in the interior of the Church-on-the-Blood built on the site of the Ipatyev house. In the southern apse of this church, there are memorial boards with the names of the emperor, the empress and their children, and on the opposite, northern apse, there are memorial boards with the names of their faithful servants,” he said. |
| Samples of the remains of Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and samples of the clothes of Russian Emperor Alexander II were taken from St. Petersburg to Moscow in September. The Russian Orthodox Church and some of the Romanov’s ancestors believe the authenticity of the tsar family remains has not been proven yet. They are hoping that a new investigation will help resolve this issue. The Investigative Committee completed the investigation into the criminal case involving the death of the family of Nicolas II in January 2011 and recognized the remains found near Yekaterinburg as real. A grave with nine bodies was found on Staraya Koptyakovskaya Road near Yekaterinburg in July 1991. The remains were identified as those of Emperor Nicholas II, his 46-year-old wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, their daughters Olga, 22, Tatyana, 21, and Anastasia, 17, and their servants Yevgeny Botkin, 53, Anna Demidova, 40, Aloise Trupp, 62, and Ivan Kharitonov, 48. Members of the imperial family were buried at a sepulcher of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg on 1998. In 2000, the Russian Church canonized the new Russian martyrs and confessors Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna and their five children. The remains of two more people were discovered during archaeological excavation works 70 kilometers south of the first grave on July 26, 2007. The remains have still not been buried, but numerous expert analyses indicate that the remains are most likely those of Crown Prince Alexey and his sister Maria. Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. |
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