Cathedral on the Blood, Ekaterinburg, Russia, site of the assassination of Nicholas II of Russia in 1918 and his family
Apart from being the birthplace of Boris Yeltsin, the country’s first president who dismantled the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ekaterinburg is famous as the slaughter place of the last Russian tzar. Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, together with their children and servants were executed by Bolsheviks in the Revolution of 1918. Built in Russian Byzantine style with golden cupolas and seven bells in remembrance of the seven who died, and opened in 2003, the Orthodox church is an interior of rhodonite columns, its floor green with serpentine stone and its ceilings hung with gilt chandeliers. You can wander freely however the preserved cellar wall, against which the Romanovs were shot, costs a few roubles to see.
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