Monarchists Mourn Slain Czar and Family
Russians lit candles and chanted prayers for Czar Nicholas II and his murdered family Friday as the anniversary of their assassination was marked for the first time with official approval.
In the former imperial capital, St. Petersburg, 600 members of Orden, the Russian Imperial Union that seeks to restore the monarchy, held a memorial service on the steps of Kazan Cathedral.
Some carried black, gold and white czarist flags, while others held portraits of the czar and his German-born wife.
Nicholas was executed with his family July 17, 1918, in the basement of a house at Ekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains.
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