09 — Veneration and Legacy
How the Royal Passion-Bearers are venerated, and how they should be understood in their proper context. This section describes the concrete forms of veneration — the Church on the Blood built over the Ipatiev House site, the monastery at Ganina Yama, the feast of 4/17 July, and the great annual pilgrimage — and then situates the family where the Church situates them: within the vast host of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, as one instance (however prominent) of the twentieth-century martyrdom of the Russian Church, not as its unique redemptive center.
Tradition: Russian Orthodox / ROCOR
Files in This Section
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| The Church on the Blood and the Feast | The Ipatiev House and its 1977 demolition; the Church on the Blood consecrated on the site in 2003; the Ganina Yama monastery; the feast of 4/17 July; and the “Tsar’s Days” pilgrimage and night procession at Ekaterinburg. |
| The Royal Martyrs in Context | The family within the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia; the relation to St. Tikhon of Moscow and St. Elizabeth; the legacy and reception, and a sober assessment of their place in Russian Orthodoxy and its politics. |
See Also
- What the Church Canonized — the glorification these venerations express
- Veneration versus Cult-Excess — keeping the veneration free of ideology
- St. Elizabeth the New Martyr — the Empress’s sister, venerated alongside the family
- St. Tikhon of Moscow — the patriarch of the New Martyrs’ era
References
- Slater, Wendy. The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs. London: Routledge, 2007.
- Report of Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna to the Jubilee Bishops’ Council, Moscow, August 2000.