On January 24-25, 2019 in the museum of the Peter and Paul Fortress the international scientific conference “Tragedy. Petrograd 1919-2019. It was a memorable event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of representatives of the Russian Imperial House and the 100th anniversary of the story. A delegation of the Cossack Party of the Russian Federation took part in the conference.
A hundred years ago, in Petrograd at that time, on January 24, 1919, the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (B), after discussing the 6th item on the agenda - the Circular Letter of the Central Committee on Cossacks' Relations, adopted a secret directive "To all responsible comrades working in areas ”with the following resolution“ Accept the text of the circular letter. To suggest to the Commissariat of Agriculture to develop practical measures for the relocation of the poor on a large scale to the Cossack lands. ” It is this directive of the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee J. Sverdlov that can be considered the beginning of the destruction of the Cossacks as disagreeable to the new class government.
The venue of the event is also very significant because St. Petersburg, the city founded by Peter Romanov, the city where the founder's dynasty reigned the largest and most brilliant part of her term, started from Hare Island from here. Also significant was the presence at the event of the widow Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky-Romanov (Nicholas II’s nephew), Olga Nikolaevna Kulikovskaya-Romanova, a Russian public figure, an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Arts and a member of the Writers' Union of Russia.
In addition to historians and museum workers, representatives of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Cossack Party of the Russian Federation party and Archbishop Michael of Medona, representing the territorially unrelated to Russia, but the Orthodox clergy spiritually with the Russian world and our people, actively participated in the event.
The event ended with a solemn memorial service in St. Isaac's Cathedral on January 26, a requiem worthy of bright memory to people