Bloody old St. Nicholas.(Russia canonizes the last czar)(Brief Article)

U.S. News & World Report | August 28, 2000| | Copyright

The last Romanov czar was jeeringly dubbed "Bloody Nicholas" by generations of Communist Russians. Now he will be venerated as St. Nicholas. In its decision last week to canonize the czar along with Empress Alexandra and the children--Alexei, Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia--the Russian Orthodox Church sought to emphasize not the manner in which the Romanovs lived but the Christian forbearance with which they died at the hands of the Bolsheviks.

If the church approached the decision gingerly, many believers were more ...

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