Nicholas II remembered in St Petersburg by the Russian Imperial Movement

400 people gathered on July 17th in St. Petersburg in the Holy Resurrection Memorial Church. The Russian Imperial Movement (RID) was the permanent organizer of this service, which was held for the 29th time on the Day of the ritual murder of the Emperor-martyr Nicholas II Alexandrovich, a procession and prayer service with an akathist singing took place.

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60,000 people in the Procession of the Tsar's Days in Yekaterinburg

After the execution of the Sacrament of Communion, at about 02:30, the procession with 60,000 people to the monastery of the Royal Passion-bearers began to the site of which the Royal remains were destroyed in the Ganin Yam tract in 1918. Throughout its length, the cross procession was accompanied by 15 mobile help groups of the Orthodox Relief Service and volunteers of the Tsarist days, providing all-round assistance to pilgrims.

Volunteers of the Nika charity foundation at several points along the routes handed out bottles of drinking water to all who were thirsty, and the sisters of charity provided the first aid to the crusaders. At about 6 o'clock in the morning the column of the procession led by the clergy reached the monastery in the name of the Holy Royal Martyrs on the Ganina Pit. Pilgrims and clergy fraternity of the monastery met with a bell ringing.

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The Night Divine Liturgy, the main service of the Tsar's Days Held

The Night Divine Liturgy, the main service of the Tsar's Days, began at the Temple on the Blood.
Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursky Kirill Memorial Church on the Blood Tsarist Days - 2019

On the night of July 16-17, 2019, in memory of the Royal Passion-bearers: Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexy, Grand Dukes Olga, Tatiana, Mary and Anastasia, in Yekaterinburg near the Temple on the Blood, exactly 101 years ago, at night from July 16 to July 17, 1918 the atrocious murder of the last Russian emperor Nikolai Aleksandrovich and his family was committed, the main event of the Tsar's Days, the Divine Liturgy, began. Divine service takes place on the square in front of the lower side-altar of the Temple-Monument on the Blood.

The Divine Liturgy and Satkinsky Vincent, Bishop of Serov and Krasnoturinsky Alexy, Bishop of Alapaevsky and Irbitsky Leonid. At the site in front of the temple there are the head of the region Yevgeny Vladimirovich Kuyvashev and the mayor of the city of Yekaterinburg, Alexander G. Vysokinsky. Night worship service wass broadcast by the Soyuz TV channel to 87 countries of the world. The temple gathered a few thousand people.

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