60 000 believers in Yekaterinburg honor the memory of the royal family in a cross procession
The procession began at 3 am by the local time. Believers marched along the route, which in 1918 members of the imperial family were carried along.
The religious procession along its entire length was accompanied by 25 mobile groups of the Orthodox service "Mercy". The volunteers gave out bottles of drinking water, and the nurses of the charity provided first aid to the participants in the procession, if necessary.
Members of the royal family, as well as Dr. Yevgeny Botkin and three servants, took a martyr's death on the night of July 17, 1918 in the house of engineer Ipatiev in Yekaterinburg.
In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church sanctified Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna and their five children, and in February 2016 – Evgeniy Botkin.
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