Summary of the tour “Romanovs in the Urals”
Description:
The tour is dedicated to the story of the death of the royal family in Yekaterinburg.
Includes a visit to the Temple-On-Blood, built on the site of the house of the engineer Ipatiev, the men's monastery on Ganina Yama, the Piglets Loga, where the remains were discovered.
The Temple-on-Blood was consecrated on July 16, 2003 and became the third Temple-on-Blood in the history of our country. The first is installed in Uglich, at the place of the murder of Tsarevich Dmitry, the second in St. Petersburg, at the place of the murder of Emperor Alexander II.
Visitors will also visit the wooden chapel of the Great Martyr Elizabeth Romanova. Further, the tour continues on Ganina Yama, where a male monastery was built in honor of the royal passion-bearers. The temple complex on Ganina Pit is built in the best traditions of Russian wooden architecture surrounded by the Ural forest.
The most unusual in architecture is the Temple in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the heavenly patron of the last Russian emperor. Its 17 domes recall the sad date of July 17, 1918, the day of the murder of the royal family. Visitors will also visit the Church of the Royal Passion-Bearers, the Temple in honor of St. Seraphim of Sarov, the Temple in honor of St. Sergei of Radonezh. The monastery has a museum where you can see copies of unique documents, a recreated basement room of the Ipatiev house, many photos, unique newsreel footage from the life of the royal family.
The excursion program will allow listeners to touch one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century – the story of the death of the last emperor’s family, the fate of the royal remains, and conflicting stories about the surviving members of the royal family. The trip will help to realize what happened, to awaken in your heart repentance and purify your soul.