Russia to re-bury tsar's mother

[emad]

The UK's BBC News reports that:

The Danish-born mother of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II is to make a final journey back to her adopted country, 80 years after her death.
The Danish Foreign Ministry says the remains of the Empress-Dowager Maria Fedorovna are to be moved next year from Denmark to a cathedral in St Petersburg. Denmark's Queen Margarethe has given her consent for the remains to be sent, at the request of Russia and the former Russian royal family, the Romanovs.

The re-burial is set for 26 September next year, the same date that Maria Fedorovna - born Princess Dagmar of Denmark - went to Russia to be married in 1866. She joined the Russian Orthodox Church and assumed a Russian name before becoming empress 15 years later when her husband, Alexander III, ascended to the throne. The Romanovs say Maria Fedorovna had asked to be buried in the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral next to her husband when circumstances allowed. She fled Russia in 1919, a year after her son and his family were killed by revolutionaries, and died in her homeland in 1928. Her remains are currently lying next to those of her father, Danish King Christian IX, in Roskilde Cathedral near Copenhagen.

Prince Dmitry Romanov, the last tsar's second cousin once removed, welcomed the decision. "My first reaction was a feeling of joy," he told Itar-Tass news agency.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3195234.stm



I say this is good news and hope it will set a precedent......like re-burying the UK's Queen Mother next to Herman Goering, perhaps?

[izzie]

1. Well they were one awful family and the Craz did not have a clue.

But never was a good reason to kill the children. I guess the thought that it had to be over to the Reds was something.

[Rowdyboy]

2. A sad end to a tragic story

of a family who lost their chance at relevency due to fear of change. Their fear of anarcho-terrorist assassins forced the state to crack down on all leftists resulting in such a severe backlash by the Bolsheviks that Russia has never recovered.

[Palacsinta]

3. So she's going 'home'.

I believe she went to her grave thinking that her son and his family were not murdered.

[emad]

4. Yep: typical Romanov family 'suicide' - much copied in the 20th

century!