Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Sign-In
|
Sign-Up
|
Contact Us
|
Bookmark
Home
News
Articles
Forum
Search
Directory
Blog
Accounts
Business
|
Politics
|
Technology
|
Entertainment
|
Sport
|
Other
|
All Published News
|
The wife of Emperor Alexander III will be reburied in St. Petersburg September 28
The wife of Emperor Alexander III, interred in Copenhagen after her death 78 years ago, will be reburied in St. Petersburg September 28, Russia's top culture official said Tuesday. The governments of Russia and Denmark agreed last year that Empress Maria Fyodorovna's remains should be returned to St. Petersburg to be re-interred in the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral next to the remains of her husband and other members of the Romanov dynasty. "The interdepartmental working group for the reburial of Empress Maria Fyodorovna held its final session today to sum up the results of two years' work," Culture and Mass Communications Minister Alexander Sokolov said. He said the group had finalized documentation including a memorandum of understanding with Denmark's Foreign Ministry. The empress' remains will be brought to St. Petersburg by ship September 26, 2006, and reburied two days later at the cathedral in the city's landmark Peter and Paul Fortress, which houses the remains of almost all Russia's pre-Revolutionary rulers from Peter the Great onwards. Danish Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar (1847-1928), baptized a Lutheran, took the name Maria Fyodorovna when she converted to the Orthodoxy before marrying Alexander III. Her father became King of Denmark six days after her wedding. Despite the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917, Empress Maria did not leave Russia for her native Denmark until 1919. Maria Fyodorovna's son - Russia's last emperor, Nicholas II - and her daughter-in-law and grandchildren were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, but until her death, she refused to acknowledge the massacre had ever taken place. On July 17, 1998 the remains of the emperor, his family and servants were reburied in the chapel of St. Great Martyr Catherine in the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Related News
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on awarding the 2005 State Prize to Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the nuclear sector needs modern management
Sergei Lavrov said Friday he backed a proposal to hold a referendum on establishing a sovereign Palestinian state
Israeli air strike killed Hamas government's security chief Jamal Abu Samhadana
Ukraine's Security Service denied any involvement in the detention and expulsion of a Russian newspaper reporter from the Crimea Friday
Some of Russia's leading politicians will be cheering on Ukraine during the 2006 World Soccer Cup
The head of Russia's domestic security service Friday congratulated U.S. colleagues for successful elimination of the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq
Policeman and a local resident were killed in Dagestan
India's 74-year-old president will make something of an unusual flight Thursday, when he takes to the skies in a Russian Su-30 MKI Flanker multirole fighter-bomber
Georgia will not ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe until Russia fulfils commitments it undertook at Istanbul in 1999
The head of Russia's central election commission said Thursday that Vladimir Putin has the right to run for the presidency in 2012
Four ships sunk after the Second World War were discovered on the Baltic seabed
Sergei Lavrov met Chinmaya Gharekhan on Thursday to discuss the situation in Iraq and the Middle East
U.S. President George W. Bush will make a working visit to Russia on the eve of the G8 summit in July
Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Lebedev have acquired 49 percent of shares in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has highly appraised the level of relations between Moscow and Islamabad
Russia's Central Bank said Wednesday it had revoked the operating licenses of two banks over breaches of banking legislation
There is no information so far about the fate of four Russian embassy workers who were abducted in Iraq
None of the four Russian diplomats abducted in Iraq have any connection with Russian special services whatsoever
The State Duma Wednesday slammed Ukraine's plans to join NATO
May
June 2006
Jul
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
Su
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9