Passion-Bearer · 20th century
Royal Passion-bearers of Russia
Also known as Tsar Nicholas II · Tsarina Alexandra · Tsarevich Alexei · Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia
The last emperor of Russia, Nicholas, with his wife Alexandra and their children Alexei, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, who bore imprisonment and humiliation with Christian meekness and forgiveness and were shot together at Ekaterinburg in 1918.
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Named family group commemorated as one; modern glorification.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints