Twelve members of the Romanov House have come to St ... Petersburg Metropolitanate, informed TASS. Czar Nicholas II, who abdicated the throne on March 2, 1917, and his family were executed ...

Xenia Romanova, the mother of the first Romanov Czar Mikhail Fyodorovich blessed him for reigning with the icon of the Virgin Mary of St Theodore in 1613. Czar Nicholas and his family kept a copy ...