The story of Nicholas II and Alexandra's final Christmas, celebrated under close watch of their Bolshevik guards. Drawn from the martyrs' own writings.
Russian specialist and independent curator Marilyn Swezey presents the gripping story of Russia’s last imperial family under house arrest in the Alexander Palace.
Epistle of His Eminence Hilarion,
Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, on the 100th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Righteous Roya... Read More...
A personal reflection on the multiple layers of treason -- from the army's commanding officers to politicians and even the aristocracy -- which led to the forced abdication of Tsar Nicholas II from the throne in 1917.
April 23rd marks the feast day of St George the Great-Martyr and Trophy-Bearer and of St Alexandra the Martyr Empress (III c.). From the time of her reception into the Orthodox Church, the Empress Alexandra too... Read More...
A handwritten gift from the Royal Martyr, H.I.M. Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, to her children's English tutor, Charles Sydney Gibbes, during their exile in Tobolsk, 1917.
Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
Buchendorf, Germany
June 3/16, 2017
We, the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, gathered for a Counc... Read More...
A thorough and sober examination of recent and ongoing attempts to rewrite the history surrounding controversial and enigmatic Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, by the noted historian of the Russian Church, D.P. Anashkin.