400th Anniversary of Romanov Dynasty
RomanovMartyrs:
I wasn't sure where to put this, so please feel free, mods, to move it somewhere else.
I thought it'd be a good idea to begin composing a list of festivities that will be going on in 2013 to comemorate the 400th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. This way, we know well in advance and maybe can plan to attend some! If you find other activities, please add them, and don't forget to tell the location. : )
-The Romanov Ribbon Campaign is fundraising to construct a monument at the 2013 Romanov Festival (Kostroma)
-A memorial Romanov bell will be raised at Novospassky Monastery (Moscow)
-New museum in the Governor's Mansion (Tobolsk)
-New tableware released by Royal Buckingham for purchase by the public will have the Romanov crest and 1613-2013 depicted on it
-"Romanovs in Nizhni Novgorod" exhibition of photographs (Nizhni Novgorod)
-"The Romanovs: A Great Dynasty" collection of historical carpets (Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Paris, New York, Madrid)
-Museum of Fine Arts Romanov Exhibition (Omsk)
-The Tsar's Cabinet: 200 Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs (Edmonton Canada, Jacksonville FL, Santa Ana CA)
-Annual march to Ganina Yama on the anniversary of the execution (Yekaterinburg)
There has also been some appeal to the government by the Romanov Family Association of finally burying the last remains (Alexei + sister), so I hope this comes to pass.
TimM:
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There has also been some appeal to the government by the Romanov Family Association of finally burying the last remains (Alexei + sister), so I hope this comes to pass.
Me too. It's high time these two joined the rest of their family.
Robert_Hall:
I agree as well. I do not understand the Church's objection and delays.
I have already heard or read that all sorts of commemorations are being planned for 1917. No details on the Romanovs themselves, but the revolution and the end of WWI [for Russia]
TimM:
One has to wonder what they have in mind. In my opinion, Russia has really nothing to celebrate about 1917, that was the year Russia was cast into a Dark Age that would span nearly seventy-five years and consume millions of innocent lives.
In my mind, it would be like Germany honouring 1933 (the year Hitler took power).
Robert_Hall:
Not to get into the polemics of the Russian Revolution, it did make a remarkable change in Russian society. I see no connection to the rise of Hitler.
On the other hand, the Romanovs are gone, have been since the abdication [1917] so what is there to celebrate about them a hundred years after wards ? If it is just a family reunion, leave it them, do not waste public money on it.
If it is contributions to the Russian people. Well, they are superfluous and thin. There is no more "Empire" any longer. What the Romanovs did, add forcefully, The Soviets gave back, willingly with the colllapse of the CCCP.
We go go through all this again, but not much new to add to it, is there ?
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