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30/10/15
A Moscou, es va inaugurar un monument a Nicolau II
24/10/15
El Tsarèvitx dóna suport a l'annexió de Crimea
El Gran Duc ho ha fet en una entrevista a Komsomolskaya Pravda on recorda que va visitar Crimea el 2013 i anuncia una nova visita així com projectes caritatius per ajudar-la per part de la Casa Imperial. Segons Jordi Vladímir Putin està defensant amb èxit els interessos del país. Extractes en anglès de les declaraciosn del Tsarèvitx:
“I was in Crimea in 2013, I know many people there and I will definitely visit this place again and I hope not only once. We supported Crimea’s accession into the Russian Federation from the very beginning, when they held a referendum. We have cultural and charity projects working on the peninsula. My mother and I will go there again, but not for PR purposes and not for ticking the box, we will do it when the interests of our cause demand it".
“Of course I hear a lot of criticism in Russia’s address, but there are also weighted statements by serious people who understand that no balance is possible in the world without Russia and common recognition of Russia’s great role in the international politics. The Imperial House and most of people who are loyal to us think that Vladimir Putin is successfully defending his country’s interests.”
14/10/15
Cinquè congrés internacional de cosacs enmig de divisions
La trobada internacional de cosacs ha destacat el paper de les forces cosaques en la defensa de Rússia i de la seva seguretat externa o interna. Es va celebrar a Novocherkassk, al Don, el 14 d'octubre. Ivan Bezugly ha subratllat que molts cosacs són al front en defensa de Rússia. Posteriorment al congrés s'ha realitzat una marxa que ha acabat amb la crema de les banderes de Turquia i Estats Units així com de retrats dels seus presidents Obama i Erdogan mentre s'hi onejava la bandera tricolor russa. Per primera vegada hi va participar el Patriarca de l'Esglèsia Ortodoxa Ciril. El lema del congrés fou " Els cosacs. Unitat. Església. Pàtria " i l'organització va ser a càrrec de la Unió de Cosacs fundada just fa 25 anys, el 29 de juny de 1990.
Vodolatsky, l'oficialista
El congrés va aplegar 120 delegats que van enfortir els lligams econòmics entre els diferents col·lctius i aprovar mesures per a agilitzar la concessió de ciutadania russa. Els participants, encapçalats per Viktor Vodolatsky, són afins a la facció pro governamental mentre que el sector crític, encapçalat per Vladímir Melinkhov, ha estat prohibit de participar-hi com sí va fer el 2012 on el dirigent cosac crític va eixir com un clar referent.
Melinkhov, anti bolxevic i oposat a la guerra a Ucraïna
Vladímir Melikhov, el promotor de dos museus, un a Podolsk, prop de Moscou i un a Yelanskaya, al centre de la regió cosaca, dedicats als cosacs blancs (anti bolxevics) no hi va ser present. Aquest estiu la policia russa va entrar als museus i va manllevar baionetes, fusells i altra material. Els museus tenen el mateix lema dels cosacs blancs 'Per la nostra Fe, el nostre Tsar i la nostra Pàtria'. El maig les autoritats russes ja van prohibir a Melikhov que viatjés a Lienz (Austria) amb un grup de cosacs per inaugurar una capella en els 70 anys de la matança de 300 cosacs refugiats de la Segona Guerra Mundial a mans dels britànics. Uns 1.200 cosacs blancs restants foren entregats a les autoritats comunistes russes que els van executar. Melikhov ha aixecat un memorial a aquests cosacs a la pròpia Yelanskaya i un altre a l'ataman P. Krasnov un dels líders del moviment blanc. Oleg Shetshov, de White Cause, considera Krasnov i els seus homes com a "herois".
L'ataman Krasnov
Melinkhov al museu de Podolsk
Churekov, i el suport al Donbas
La policia du a terme una investigació contra l'ataman Yuri Churekov, de Caucasus Line Cossack Host, una host no reconeguda per Moscou. Churekov ha abandonat la primera fila del moviment, i ara està detingut pendent ed judici, i ara Sergei Popov, un moderat, dirigeix la CLCH.El 2014, Churekov, amb Sergei Popov, l´ideòleg del moviment Russian Caucasus Unity van impulsar un partit cosac que van anomenar "germandat". Els dos defensen als secessionistes prorussos del DonBas mentre Melikhov, membre també del partit, està en contra de la guerra a Ucraïna i, tanmateix, de l'annexió de Crimea.
Vídeo del congrés
10/10/15
El Tsarevitx es reuneix amb el Gran Mestre de l'Orde de Malta
El Gran Duc Georgii Mikhailovich es va reunir amb E.P.V. Frey Matthew Festing, Príncep i Gran Maestre de la Sobirana Ordre Militar de Sant Joan de Jerusalem (Ordre de Malta). La reunió es va celebrar a Sant Petersburg. Van ser rebuts per Alexander Tkachenko, qui li va parlar de la història de l'església i de la relació entre Rússia i l'Ordre de Malta.
Després d'això el tsarevitx va acollir el Gran Mestre i va entregar-li una icona del Profeta i Bautista Joan Baptista i
llibres sobre la història de la Casa Imperial russa.
9/10/15
Pravoslavie entrevista l'arximandrita del monestir dedicat a la família imperial
5/10/15
Rèquiem pel General Iudenitx
El 5 d'octubre
a les 15.00 hores a la Catedral de Kazan a Sant Petersburg es va
celebrar un servei commemoratiu a l'Heroi Nacional de Rússia, Comandant de l'Ordre de St. Jordi, participant a la guerra russo-japonesa, la primera guerra mundial i la Guerra Civil, el General, Nikolai Yudenich. Va morir a les afores de Niça el 5 octubre 1933 i va ser enterrat amb els més alts honors militars a la cripta de la Catedral de Sant Miquel Arcàngel a Cannes. Més tard fou re-enterrat al cementiri rus Kokad (Nikolaev) a Niça.
26/9/15
Obre un arxiu de l'emigració blanca russa a París
Restarà a la Maison Russe a Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois, prop de París. Acollirà documents de l'emigració de russos blancs fugits de la revolució bolxevic. Jean de Boyer, el seu director, ha agraït al president Vladímir Putin el suport de Rússia al projecte. Membres de la família imperial i de l'emigració són enterrats en aquesta localitat.
19/9/15
Consagrada una placa commemorativa al general Permikina, a Grödig
El 19
de setembre al cementiri militar de les afores de Salzburg - Grödig, es
va consagrar una placa commemorativa a l'heroi del Moviment Blanc al
nord-oest de Rússia, el creador del llegendari regiment
Talab Divisió 3 de l'Exèrcit Blanc del Nord-oest General Boris Sergeyevich
Permikina (1890 -1971).
L'obertura de la placa commemorativa al general Permikina va ser possible gràcies als esforços conjunts de la Germandat Militade l'Arcàngel Miguel, de White Cause d'Oleg Shevtsov de Sant Petersburg i la representació a Baviera de la RIU-O.
11/9/15
Russian nationalists rallies in Kazan
Nationalists in Kazan held two separate events “in defense of the
Russian language.” On September 6, there was a rally “for federal
educational policy,” organized by the Society of Russian Culture of the
Republic of Tatarstan. Participants in the action included members of
the National-Democratic Party (Konstantin Krylov), the Great Russia
(Andrey Savelyev), Motherland (Aleksey Zhuravlev), as well as a few
others flying imperial Romanov flags. The rally drew between 25-30
people. On September 11, two activists from the Great Russia Party
conducted pickets for the same cause.
29/7/15
Presidential Library Receives Declassified Documents on Rasputin's Surveillance
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg have received a unique collection of documents from the Tobolsk State Archives. The 239 declassified documents dating 1914-1916 show the disorder in the Secret Service and other departments of the intelligence service of the time. The documents also contain valuable information of the secret surveillance of Rasputin, which began in 1915. The materials reflect a dramatic financial condition and a poor administration of the police, despite the fact that Rasputin, by contrast, felt confident and had sufficient means.
Most of the documents until recently were classified as "secret," "top secret," "personal," etc. Letters are in handwritten and printed form, some with pencil and ink marks.
"Correspondence with the Police Department, the Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie, district police officers about the organization of agent service" shows that in the difficult time of the World War I secret agents were dismissed due to the under funding, their salaries were reduced, they were offered to serve on a temporary basis. Confirmation of these facts we find in the presented documents. For example, a letter from the head of Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie Vladimir Dobrodeev addressed to his assistant in the Tyumen and other counties, captain Kalmykov of March 7, 1915: "For the salary of secret agents... we are given only 200 rubles per month... In addition, the Police Department offers to spend money with proper frugality, avoiding cost overruns." The answer of captain Kalmikov was immediate: "Of all the agents in my service I find it necessary to keep the "Skilled" and the "Fast" in Tyumen and the "Soldier" in Turinsk. As to the others, they can be either dismissed or demoted."
The correspondence also touched upon the reduction of agents’ salaries: "...reduce the salary of everyone, as much as you acknowledge it possible. When declaring them all of it do not inform them about the real reason for their dismissal or reduction of their salaries, as otherwise, out of selfish motives, they may give you a fictional information, which in no case can be tolerated."
After that the chief Dobrodeev raises the question not only of the value of staff, but also of the reliability of the agents as a whole: "Are your agents reliable? Instruct them to observe complete secrecy, keeping in mind that in some critical cases it is better to step away in a timely manner in order not to prang both the agents and the whole operation..."
In the summer of 1915, by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the suite of His Majesty, Major-General Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, there was established secret surveillance of Grigori Rasputin. Under the guise of guards two secret agents were assigned to him, who regularly reported to St. Petersburg Police Department about all travels, visits, and also provided the complete information about the visitors to Rasputin.
The correspondence makes it clear that the secret service was not up to surveillance of Grigori Rasputin, so they repeatedly suffered failures in their work. For example, the head of Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie writes to captain Kalmykov: "We need to find out, for what purpose Rudolf Berg came to Rasputin from Perm." Then he received a response from the agents: "Since Rudolf Berg had stayed only a few hours, it was not possible to find out or what purpose he came to Pokrovskoe to see Rasputin." The next episode is related to the failure of the agents to provide information.
August 25, 1915 Vladimir Dobrodeev writes to captain Kalmykov: "You have been ordered to monitor all activities of Grigory Rasputin and to inform me of everything... I did not receive any report about the outrages that Rasputin had made on the steamer called "Tovar-par." Yet, according to the chief of the province the actual state councilor Stankevich, whom I talked to today, the Tyumen county district police officer had carried out an investigation of this case." The agents reported: "On the boat Rasputin was drunk heavily, behaved outrageously and offered some books, but I did not pay attention to the content..."
Heads of the secret service feared of getting imaginary or incorrect information from their agents, whereby there were extraordinary occurrences. For example, the head of Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie was angered by the obscurity of one of the telegrams received from the agents. It did not indicate the date of Rasputin’s departure for Petrograd. The chief wrote a threatening letter: "From this I conclude that the sergeant Ivan Ivanov, who has been serving as a sergeant for ten years, fulfills his official duties not carefully enough...
Such negligence caused unnecessary correspondence, the report was somewhat late, almost daily, and quite involuntarily 2 rubles 42 kopecks were spent for sending unnecessary telegrams...., causing damage to the treasury." But it soon became clear that the order to collect a penalty and make a reprimand to sergeant Ivanov was unfair, he was innocent of what had happened: the figure was mistakenly omitted by a functionary on duty of the Tobolsk postal and telegraph office, while copying a telegram from the tape. Then the chief of the Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie recognized the injunction as invalidated, and ordered to inform the chief of the office "Dear G. Yerofeyev" about it "in a cautious manner."
While the police investigated the case of the figure missing from a cryptogram and spent breech time for conversation, fighting for a questionable economy, Rasputin traveled by steamers, and finally went away by train in a 1st Class wagon to St. Petersburg.
At the same time it appears that the decrease in salary, reduction of staff, checking the usefulness of the information provided due to mistrust, search for various "clues" to fight with Grigory Rasputin in the background of the events of World War I led to a serious failure. July 22, 1915 it became known of an important and serious neglect of the secret service: "In the kerosene depots in Tyumen on the Tura River there is a wireless telegraph, by which the local Germans and the prisoners spread the information from the theater of war through Saratov," that "the company Br. Nobel replaced the Russian, who served there before by the Germans, that the spread of telegrams is done by a German newspaperman."
Most of the documents until recently were classified as "secret," "top secret," "personal," etc. Letters are in handwritten and printed form, some with pencil and ink marks.
"Correspondence with the Police Department, the Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie, district police officers about the organization of agent service" shows that in the difficult time of the World War I secret agents were dismissed due to the under funding, their salaries were reduced, they were offered to serve on a temporary basis. Confirmation of these facts we find in the presented documents. For example, a letter from the head of Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie Vladimir Dobrodeev addressed to his assistant in the Tyumen and other counties, captain Kalmykov of March 7, 1915: "For the salary of secret agents... we are given only 200 rubles per month... In addition, the Police Department offers to spend money with proper frugality, avoiding cost overruns." The answer of captain Kalmikov was immediate: "Of all the agents in my service I find it necessary to keep the "Skilled" and the "Fast" in Tyumen and the "Soldier" in Turinsk. As to the others, they can be either dismissed or demoted."
The correspondence also touched upon the reduction of agents’ salaries: "...reduce the salary of everyone, as much as you acknowledge it possible. When declaring them all of it do not inform them about the real reason for their dismissal or reduction of their salaries, as otherwise, out of selfish motives, they may give you a fictional information, which in no case can be tolerated."
After that the chief Dobrodeev raises the question not only of the value of staff, but also of the reliability of the agents as a whole: "Are your agents reliable? Instruct them to observe complete secrecy, keeping in mind that in some critical cases it is better to step away in a timely manner in order not to prang both the agents and the whole operation..."
In the summer of 1915, by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the suite of His Majesty, Major-General Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, there was established secret surveillance of Grigori Rasputin. Under the guise of guards two secret agents were assigned to him, who regularly reported to St. Petersburg Police Department about all travels, visits, and also provided the complete information about the visitors to Rasputin.
The correspondence makes it clear that the secret service was not up to surveillance of Grigori Rasputin, so they repeatedly suffered failures in their work. For example, the head of Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie writes to captain Kalmykov: "We need to find out, for what purpose Rudolf Berg came to Rasputin from Perm." Then he received a response from the agents: "Since Rudolf Berg had stayed only a few hours, it was not possible to find out or what purpose he came to Pokrovskoe to see Rasputin." The next episode is related to the failure of the agents to provide information.
August 25, 1915 Vladimir Dobrodeev writes to captain Kalmykov: "You have been ordered to monitor all activities of Grigory Rasputin and to inform me of everything... I did not receive any report about the outrages that Rasputin had made on the steamer called "Tovar-par." Yet, according to the chief of the province the actual state councilor Stankevich, whom I talked to today, the Tyumen county district police officer had carried out an investigation of this case." The agents reported: "On the boat Rasputin was drunk heavily, behaved outrageously and offered some books, but I did not pay attention to the content..."
Heads of the secret service feared of getting imaginary or incorrect information from their agents, whereby there were extraordinary occurrences. For example, the head of Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie was angered by the obscurity of one of the telegrams received from the agents. It did not indicate the date of Rasputin’s departure for Petrograd. The chief wrote a threatening letter: "From this I conclude that the sergeant Ivan Ivanov, who has been serving as a sergeant for ten years, fulfills his official duties not carefully enough...
Such negligence caused unnecessary correspondence, the report was somewhat late, almost daily, and quite involuntarily 2 rubles 42 kopecks were spent for sending unnecessary telegrams...., causing damage to the treasury." But it soon became clear that the order to collect a penalty and make a reprimand to sergeant Ivanov was unfair, he was innocent of what had happened: the figure was mistakenly omitted by a functionary on duty of the Tobolsk postal and telegraph office, while copying a telegram from the tape. Then the chief of the Tobolsk provincial gendarmerie recognized the injunction as invalidated, and ordered to inform the chief of the office "Dear G. Yerofeyev" about it "in a cautious manner."
While the police investigated the case of the figure missing from a cryptogram and spent breech time for conversation, fighting for a questionable economy, Rasputin traveled by steamers, and finally went away by train in a 1st Class wagon to St. Petersburg.
At the same time it appears that the decrease in salary, reduction of staff, checking the usefulness of the information provided due to mistrust, search for various "clues" to fight with Grigory Rasputin in the background of the events of World War I led to a serious failure. July 22, 1915 it became known of an important and serious neglect of the secret service: "In the kerosene depots in Tyumen on the Tura River there is a wireless telegraph, by which the local Germans and the prisoners spread the information from the theater of war through Saratov," that "the company Br. Nobel replaced the Russian, who served there before by the Germans, that the spread of telegrams is done by a German newspaperman."
26/7/15
Reobre un edifici emblemàtic de l'Esglèsia Ortodoxa Russa
Va ser aixecada el 1901 durant el regnat del Tsar Nicolau II i consagrada el 1902. Després de la revolució fou el lloc on es reunia el Consell de l'Església Ortodoxa Russa. Aquest va restaurar el títol de Patriarca en la persona de Tikhon. Aquest va destacar per la seva posició anti bolxevic i va condemnar l'assassinat de la família imperial però no va marxar a l'exili i va morir a Moscou el 1925. El Patriarca fou canonitzat el 1981.
La Casa fou clausurada el 1922 però des de 1918 ja s'havien prohibit els actes a la mateixa. Els bolxevics la van saquejar. Fou retornada a l'Església el 2004 i ara, restaurada, el successor de Tikhon 'lha reoberta oficialment.
15/7/15
60.000 persones marxen en record del Tsar i la seva família
Una immensa marxa, de tres quilòmetres i amb 60.000 persones va coronar els "Dies Reials" a Ekaterimburg. La commemoració anual dedicada a la Família Imperial Russa va desfilar en ordre incloent-hi una delegació monàrquica japonesa. Icones, cosacs i banderes imperials omplien la marxa que va acabar al Monestir dels Sants Màrtirs Reals en Ganina Yama dedicat a la família del Tsar Nicolau II.
Les imatges dels vídeos resum de la marxa nocturna són impressionants.
Les imatges dels vídeos resum de la marxa nocturna són impressionants.
4/7/15
Reunió anti bolxevic a Moscou coincidint amb el dia de l'assassinat de la família imperial.
Unique documents on Denikin's talks with mountaineers brought from France to Chechnya
One of the jewels of the archive, which
Chechnya has received from France, are the reports of Europeans on the
situation in the Caucasus in 1917-1921, as well as documents about the
negotiations of Anton Denikin with mountaineers, said Mairbek Vachagaev,
a historian.
For a long time, the events in Northern Caucasus during
the Civil War were covered one-sidedly and require an independent study,
experts say.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in June this year Mairbek
Vachagaev, President of the Association of Caucasian Studies in Paris,
handed over to the Archival Department of Chechnya 50,000 pages of
archival materials on history of the Caucasus, which he had copied in
France.
In November 1917, in the territory of Dagestan and highland districts of
the Terek Region of the Russian Empire the Mountain Republic was
proclaimed. The government of the republic was dissolved in the spring
of 1919, after the territory of Dagestan was occupied by troops of
General Denikin. From September 1919 to March 1920, the Islamic state of
North-Caucasian Emirate existed in the territory of Dagestan and
Chechnya.
The study of these documents helps to understand how Frenchmen, Germans,
Turks and Britons treated the situation in Northern Caucasus in
1917-1921.
According to Vachagaev, of particular interest are the documents about
the characteristics, which were issued to mountain leaders, as well as
the correspondence of mountaineers with European states. These materials
present a lot of new facts about the relationships of mountaineers with
Cossacks and Bolsheviks.
2/7/15
Inauguració d'un nou monument a Nicolau I a Noginsk
El 2 de juliol de 2015 la Unió Ortodoxa de Portadors de Banderes va assistir a la inauguració del monument a Nicolau I en el "Passeig dels Romanov" del districte de Noginsk de la regió de Moscou. L'esdeveniment cerimonial va començar amb un servei fúnebre per l'emperador Nicolau I, qui va fer l'abat de l'abat del monestir Evmeny (Lagutin).
L'esdeveniment va comptar amb la presència Sergei Stepashin, que en nom de la Societat Imperial Ortodoxa Palestina. També va comptar amb la presència de representants de l'administració del districte de Noginsk, representants de diverses organitzacions monàrquiques i residents locals.
L'esdeveniment va comptar amb la presència Sergei Stepashin, que en nom de la Societat Imperial Ortodoxa Palestina. També va comptar amb la presència de representants de l'administració del districte de Noginsk, representants de diverses organitzacions monàrquiques i residents locals.
1/7/15
Consagració de la capella dedicada als cosacs assassinats a Lienz
L'1
juliol 2015 a Lienz (Àustria) en motiu del 70 aniversari de la matança de cosacs a Lienz es va consagrar una capella ortodoxa que va ser consagrada per l'Església Ortodoxa Russa a l'Exterior.
La part russa va estar representada en la cerimònia per cosacs de
Rússia i de l'estranger, la RIU-O i el Moviment d'Alliberament de Rússia.
També hi hagué supervivents de l'expedició a Lienz, que van expressar la seva alegria per la represa de la tradició del pelegrinatge de feligresos a Lienz. En particular, va destacar que la preservació de la memòria de les víctimes del règim comunista un deure sagrat per als cristians ortodoxos.
També hi hagué supervivents de l'expedició a Lienz, que van expressar la seva alegria per la represa de la tradició del pelegrinatge de feligresos a Lienz. En particular, va destacar que la preservació de la memòria de les víctimes del règim comunista un deure sagrat per als cristians ortodoxos.
23/6/15
Local MPs want Tsar’s family back in Russia, suggest Crimean palace as residence
A regional lawmaker has addressed the heirs of the Romanov imperial
house with a request to return to Russia promising them a special legal
status and one of historic palaces in Crimea or St. Petersburg.
Vladimir Petrov of the legislative assembly of the Leningrad Region wrote letters to Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Prince Dimitri Romanovich asking them to become symbols of national culture and maintaining traditions, like in many European nations that retained their monarchies to this day.
“For the whole length of its reign the Romanov imperial dynasty remained a foundation of the Russian statehood. At present Russia is undergoing a complicated process of regaining its glory and worldwide influence. I am sure that in this historical moment the Romanovs would not stay away from all processes that are taking place in Russia,” Petrov writes in his letter.
The politician suggested that this move would help to smooth political controversies within Russia and help to restore the “spiritual power” of the nation.
Petrov added that he and his colleagues from the Leningrad regional legislature would very soon develop and draft a bill “On the special status of representatives of the Tsars’ family” that would give some guarantees to the returning Romanovs. He also said that the royals could use one of the palaces that belonged to them before the revolution and that now remain vacant or are misused.
“To this day a lot of wonderful Tsar’s palaces near St. Petersburg are either empty or used not according to their destination. I think if one of these palaces is used as an official residence of the Romanov family it would only be for everyone’s benefit,” the lawmaker said in comments to Izvestia daily. He noted that another option was to settle the royals in the Livadia Palaces in Crimea.
The head of the Chancellery of the Russian Imperial House, Aleksandr Zakatov, told Izvestia that some representatives of the dynasty were ready to move to Russia. However, he noted that Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna held a high post of the head of the imperial house and therefore her return should be decent and solemn.
“She has no claims for property or political privileges and powers, she only wants the imperial house to become a historical institution and part of the national legacy, similar to royal houses of many other countries. And this recognition must be manifested in a legal act,” Zakatov said.
Currently there are two major competing branches of the Romanov dynasty – one is headed by Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and the other by Prince Nikolai Romanovich. Their representatives often visit Russia and take part in various events, but so far none of them have made any political claims.
An opinion poll conducted in 2013 in connection with the 400th anniversary of the Romanov royal house showed that 28 percent of Russian citizens would agree to the rule of Tsars, but only 6 percent said that this modern monarch must be from the Romanov dynasty. About 13 percent hold that a contemporary Russian politician could become a new Tsar and suggested a nationwide referendum to decide on the candidate.
The majority of the people - 67 percent - said that Russia should leave monarchy in the past and remain a democracy.
Source: Russia Today
Vladimir Petrov of the legislative assembly of the Leningrad Region wrote letters to Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Prince Dimitri Romanovich asking them to become symbols of national culture and maintaining traditions, like in many European nations that retained their monarchies to this day.
“For the whole length of its reign the Romanov imperial dynasty remained a foundation of the Russian statehood. At present Russia is undergoing a complicated process of regaining its glory and worldwide influence. I am sure that in this historical moment the Romanovs would not stay away from all processes that are taking place in Russia,” Petrov writes in his letter.
The politician suggested that this move would help to smooth political controversies within Russia and help to restore the “spiritual power” of the nation.
Petrov added that he and his colleagues from the Leningrad regional legislature would very soon develop and draft a bill “On the special status of representatives of the Tsars’ family” that would give some guarantees to the returning Romanovs. He also said that the royals could use one of the palaces that belonged to them before the revolution and that now remain vacant or are misused.
“To this day a lot of wonderful Tsar’s palaces near St. Petersburg are either empty or used not according to their destination. I think if one of these palaces is used as an official residence of the Romanov family it would only be for everyone’s benefit,” the lawmaker said in comments to Izvestia daily. He noted that another option was to settle the royals in the Livadia Palaces in Crimea.
The head of the Chancellery of the Russian Imperial House, Aleksandr Zakatov, told Izvestia that some representatives of the dynasty were ready to move to Russia. However, he noted that Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna held a high post of the head of the imperial house and therefore her return should be decent and solemn.
“She has no claims for property or political privileges and powers, she only wants the imperial house to become a historical institution and part of the national legacy, similar to royal houses of many other countries. And this recognition must be manifested in a legal act,” Zakatov said.
Currently there are two major competing branches of the Romanov dynasty – one is headed by Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and the other by Prince Nikolai Romanovich. Their representatives often visit Russia and take part in various events, but so far none of them have made any political claims.
An opinion poll conducted in 2013 in connection with the 400th anniversary of the Romanov royal house showed that 28 percent of Russian citizens would agree to the rule of Tsars, but only 6 percent said that this modern monarch must be from the Romanov dynasty. About 13 percent hold that a contemporary Russian politician could become a new Tsar and suggested a nationwide referendum to decide on the candidate.
The majority of the people - 67 percent - said that Russia should leave monarchy in the past and remain a democracy.
Source: Russia Today
15/6/15
Visita de l'Emperadriu Maria a Rússia
1/6/15
A Memorial Service in the US Capital for the Cossacks Repatriated to the USSR
One of the most tragic pages in the history of the Russian diaspora was marked by a solemn panikhida held on Monday, June 1, 2015, at St John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC. The tens of thousands of Cossacks who were repatriated by the Western powers to the USSR in 1945 were honored.
“Many parishes in the emigration since World War II have marked the anniversary of the betrayal by the Allie of tens of thousands of Russian Cossacks who were repatriated to the USSR. They naively believed that in collaborating with Hitler, they could emancipate Russia from the Communist yoke,” said Protopriest Victor Potapov to RIA Novosti. " He noted that “within the framework of the agreement signed at the Yalta Conference, Stalin demanded that all Soviet citizens found in the West be returned to the USSR. I grew up in the emigration, and I know from our older generation that the Allies felt obliged to execute their agreement with Stalin,” he said.
“The battalions of Russian Cossacks handed over their arms in the Austrian city of Lienz. They believed the Allied forces’ assurances and never dreamed that they would be betrayed, handed over to certain death,” said Fr Victor. “At the end of May and beginning of June, 1945, British officers gathered the Cossack atamans [leaders] and told them that they would be sent to a conference, then returned to their families. In reality, there was no such conference. When the Cossacks learned the truth, they asked their clergymen to celebrate Liturgy. But the British lost their patience and did not allow the service to continue. Many Cossacks then committed suicide, mothers threw their children into the river, hoping they would somehow be saved.”
Fr Victor said that the grandmother of his daughter-in-law endured the Lienz tragedy. “She was miraculously able to save her child by throwing him in the river. She, too, was also able to survive, and later the family was reunited,” he said.
The priest noted that “Many of the Cossacks betrayed at Lienz were not even Soviet citizens, and so were not in principle subject to deportation to the Soviet Union.” Many were executed upon their return, or enslaved in Stalin’s concentration camps.
“This is a tragic page in history which we cannot forget,” noted Fr Victor.
The cathedral’s clergyman noted that “On May 8, the eve of the Day of Victory, we also performed a memorial service to commemorate all those who gave their lives in the struggle against Hitler.”
After the pannikhida for the Cossacks, a film by renowned director Alexei Denisov on the tragedy in the Alps was shown in the parish hall. During the discussion that followed, many parishioners shared the history of their own families relating to the fate of the Cossacks in World War II.
30/5/15
L'Assemblea Noblesa Russa celebra 25 anys
El 30 de maig, a Moscou, es va celebrar un Jubileu extraordinari de la noblesa
russa. Un Congrés, dedicat al 25 aniversari de la reactivació de l'Assemblea Noblesa Russa va comptar amb presència de la RIU-O. El congrés es va obrir amb el "Déu salvi el Tsar!" himne de la Rússia Tsarista. Va comptar amb la presència
de 111 delegats de 43 oficines regionals de l'ANR en el territori de
la Federació de Rússia, Ucraïna, Kazakhstan, els països bàltics i els
Estats Units.