Well-known due to Khodorkovsky case Basmanny district court of Moscow carried a resolution in the case Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovma vs. Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation. The court bound the Committee to submit to Grand Duchess a copy of the resolution to stop the case in relation to the murder of Emperor Nicholas II.
H.I.H. Attorney Sir Herman Lukyanov emphasized: “These documents have very big historical value, because the fate of the Imperial House is a part of the Russian history and it couldn’t be a secret. They [the members of the Imperial House] were the first victims of the big terror, when millions people were killed. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna would like to know, how the Emperor and His Family were murdered. She also would like clear understand, on the base of which evidence the human remains found near Yekaterinburg ascribed to the Imperial Family.”
On 4 August Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna celebrated Her Name Day. Solemn services were served in Orthodox churches in different cities of Russia. In Moscow the service was served by archbishop Arseny of Istra, the first vicar of the Holy Patriarch.
Another important topic of August the anniversary of the WWI beginning was. In different cities and towns of Russia the Russian Imperial Union-Order organised requiems about the victims of the war. In Minsk the cemetery of the WWI soldiers was opened after the reconstruction. It was destroyed earlier by Communists.
In Simferopol the exhibition about past and presence of the Russian Imperial House was opened at the Central Museum of Tavrida.
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