Marching For The Tsar
Ninety-nine years after the execution of Nicholas II and his family, thousands in central Russia march in memory of Russia's last tsar.
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Marchers carry crosses as the procession moves through central Yekaterinburg.
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Bullwhip in hand, a Cossack walks ahead of the procession. The marchers followed the route taken by the Bolsheviks as they drove the bodies to a forest north of Yekaterinburg for a hasty burial.
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A boy walks beneath the yellow, black, and white flag of Imperial Russia.
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Tsar Nicholas II is an increasingly popular figure in Russia, complicating the country's upcoming centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
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Images of the tsar and his family were vigorously repressed during the Soviet era.
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A woman kisses a cross with a portrait of the tsar, tsarina, and their five children. In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized the Romanov family.
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Marchers with a carved cross at the site where investigators discovered the bodies of Russia's last royal family.