Church of All Saints, Yekaterinburg
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Church on Blood in Honor of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land is a Russian Orthodox church in Yekaterinburg commemorating the Romanov sainthood.
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[edit] The church
On 20 September 1990 the Sverdlovsk Soviet handed over the plot to the Russian Orthodox Church for construction of a memorial chapel. After the last Tsar's canonization, the Church came up with plans that called for an impressive memorial complex dedicated to the Romanov family.[1] A state commission was gathered and architectural as well as economic funding plans were drawn. Construction works were started in 2000. The completed complex comprises two churches, a belfry, a patriarchal annex and a museum dedicated to the imperial family.[1] It covers a total of 29,700 sq. ft. The main church was consecrated by hierarchs from all over Russia on 16 June 2003, 85 years after the execution of the Romanov family.[1]
[edit] Romanov execution
After the February Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were taken captive and held as prisoners during the Russian Civil War.[2] The Tsar and his family were initially kept near St. Petersburg but as fears of a potential attempt of their liberation grew larger the decision to execute the imperial family became a reality.[2] On July 17, 1918 while imprisoned in Yekaterinburg, a town in the Ural Mountains, the entire imperial family, Tsar Nicholas II, Alexandra, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia was taken to the cellar of the Ipatiev House and assassinated.[3]
[edit] Ipatiev House
The Ipatiev House, built in the 1880s, was a spacious and modern home owned by a man named Nicholas Ipatiev.[4] The Ural Soviet gave Ipatiev a two days notice to leave and upon his departure they built high walls around the house.[4] The Romanov family moved in on 30 April and spent 78 days at the house. In 1974 the mansion was designated a "national monument" but three years later, on 22 September 1977 it was demolished, probably in order to prevent the house from attracting crowds of foreign visitors.
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