Church on Blood (Church-Memorial on the Blood in the name of All Saints who shone in the Russian land), consecrated in 2003, it was erected in memory of those killed in Yekaterinburg 100 years ago: the last emperor of Russia, who had already abdicated by that time from the throne, his family, including a young son, close associates, servants and a family doctor. A monument was erected to the dead in front of the Temple. Information that the Temple was erected on the site where the murder was committed is not entirely reliable; the Temple is shifted from it down the slope to the shore of the City Pond (to the northwest) by several tens of meters.
It was not an execution, as they usually say, because, according to the confessions of the killers themselves, everyone except Nicholas II himself was finished off with bayonets. I didn’t have a chance to visit inside the Ipatiev House, demolished by the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, but my mother visited there with a tour even before the War, when there was a museum there.
Many sources attribute the decision on the murder to the local Ural Council, which, of course, could not resolve such issues on its own, the explanation for this is simple: the Bolsheviks abolished the death penalty, so they could not sentence the former tsar to death in an open trial, hence the staging of the alleged initiative of local authorities.
The provisional government turned to Britain with a proposal to take the tsar and his family there, since Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna was the granddaughter of the famous British Queen Victoria, but Britain refused to accept them, it is possible that this was the revenge of the Romanov dynasty for Russia's refusal to send an expeditionary force to help Britain in during the War of Independence (1775-1783) of the future United States of America, the organization of breaking the naval blockade and the repulse of British privateering in the coastal waters of North America.
The arrest of the abdicated tsar and his entourage was carried out by order of Kerensky, he did not anticipate the tragic development of events. The situation changed after October 1917, when Kaiser Germany delivered to Petrograd the future head of the Bolshevik Government and a number of future members of this Government.
It was not an execution, as they usually say, because, according to the confessions of the killers themselves, everyone except Nicholas II himself was finished off with bayonets. I didn’t have a chance to visit inside the Ipatiev House, demolished by the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, but my mother visited there with a tour even before the War, when there was a museum there.
Many sources attribute the decision on the murder to the local Ural Council, which, of course, could not resolve such issues on its own, the explanation for this is simple: the Bolsheviks abolished the death penalty, so they could not sentence the former tsar to death in an open trial, hence the staging of the alleged initiative of local authorities.
The provisional government turned to Britain with a proposal to take the tsar and his family there, since Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna was the granddaughter of the famous British Queen Victoria, but Britain refused to accept them, it is possible that this was the revenge of the Romanov dynasty for Russia's refusal to send an expeditionary force to help Britain in during the War of Independence (1775-1783) of the future United States of America, the organization of breaking the naval blockade and the repulse of British privateering in the coastal waters of North America.
The arrest of the abdicated tsar and his entourage was carried out by order of Kerensky, he did not anticipate the tragic development of events. The situation changed after October 1917, when Kaiser Germany delivered to Petrograd the future head of the Bolshevik Government and a number of future members of this Government.
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