ROMANOV FAMILY REMAINS: BURIAL CEREMONY (1998)

 ROMANOV FAMILY REMAINS: BURIAL CEREMONY (1998)

In hopeful anticipation that the Romanov family will be reunited in burial sooner rather than later, here are some footage excerpts from their 1998 burial ceremony at  Peter & Paul Fortress in St Petersburg.   May the two children join their family soon, as I am sure all of them would have wanted!

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ASSASSIN OF TSAR ALEXANDER II: FIRST FEMALE POLITICAL EXECUTION IN RUSSIA

 

ASSASSIN OF TSAR ALEXANDER II: FIRST FEMALE POLITICAL EXECUTION IN RUSSIA

Left: Sofia Perovskaya, who became the first female political execution in Russia, for the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
Left: Sofia Perovskaya, who became the first female political execution in Russia, for the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.

 

Sofia Perovskaya  became known as the first female regicide executed in Russia. She was closely involved in the assassination of a Romanov Tsar:  Alexander II – the grandfather of Nicholas II.

Born in 1853 in St. Petersburg, Perovskaya was the daughter of Lev Perovsky, a customs official, and later governor of St. Petersburg.

In 1869, Perovskaya entered Alachinsky Women’s College, where she was initially introduced to revolutionary ideas. By the end of 1870 she left home and became completely estranged from her family.

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