It is now after midnight in Yekaterinburg. Ninety-six years ago in a cellar there, evil thugs murdered eleven innocent people, seven of them royal, including teenage girls and a sick 13-year-old boy. This horrifying crime was the essence of the rotten 20th century, and set the stage for what was to come. But the Romanovs will never be forgotten. They continue to symbolise what with all its flaws was a better, more elegant, and holier world, and remind us of courage and dignity in the face of suffering. Pray for us, passion bearers Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiania, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei.

Photograph: The Russian Imperial Family in 1913: Grand Duchess Olga (1895-1918), Grand Duchess Maria (1899-1918), Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918), Empress Alexandra (1872-1918), Grand Duchess Anastasia (1901-1918), Tsarevich Alexei (1904-1918), Grand Duchess Tatiana (1897-1918).

Извор: “The Traditionalist“