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Much has been written through the years about the tragedy of the Royal Martyrs — some well-meaning,
some disappointingly critical,
some outright slanderous — but almost none from the viewpoint of the Orthodox Christian "measuring stick."..........
July 4, 1918, the entire family, with their doctor and two faithful servants, was brought to the basement of the house of their confinement under the pretext of moving them once again.
There they were brutally and mercilessly murdered, the children as well as the adults, under the cover of darkness — for "Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil" (John 3:19). The Tsar was shot as he stood forward to defend his family.
Tsaritsa Alexandra was able to make the sign of the Cross before she, too, fell........
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