Martyrdom, Sainthood. Reburial and Commemoration of IF

Lisa as you can see from my posts I clearly had no intention of bringing 'survivor' issues on this thread that is why I carefully deflected the issue to pm David instead.

He on the other hand decided to belittle the information by commenting openly on this thread upon the info I had sent him. He is the one who should also be warned. I responded in kind. JonC.

  I'm using this subject to differentiate my question from the earlier IF thread. My interest in the IF came well after 1998 .I regret not being aware of them as I would really like to have seen current TV or any other film footage. Right now I'm looking on the web for any TV or other possible personal videos of July16-17, 1998 , so far without luck.
 
  So: Did any of you see the IF burial at that time?  Or, can anyone give me links or other tips to find it?

   Or, best of all, could the AP website find some film of the event and put it on the Romanov Films and Music section?
   I wouldn't think it would be too difficult or expensive.  Any chance, Bob?

Hey Rodney,
You know what's frustrating? I know there is a website out there with videoclips of the entire service as well as explainations of what is going on in the video.
The problem is, I didn't bookmark it! **
I'll try to find it and post the link here.

Rodney,

I sent you an instant message regarding your question.

With the prompting of Rodney, I found the link to the page with the film footage.
Hope you all can take a peak at it, it's amazing

Burial of Nicholas II and Family - When you get to the bottom of the page, click "next" for more video coverage. It truly is an amazing site!

Those clips were certainly interesting. I love that one clip says something like "Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova -Nicholas II's closest relative". They couldn't have just said his wife? I was struck though by the size of the Tsarina's coffin. Unless the camera angles were just funny, it looked like the coffin was only about two feet long. I know there was no actual body to bury, but were the bones just thrown in there? Also, since two bodies are missing and they don't know the identity of one, are the grand duchesses' tombs labelled with their names -even though they can't be certain which one isn't there? Or, though they aren't there, are there places for Alexei and the missing grand duchess as well?

I have read that the coffins were smaller than a standard one. This evident when you see the clips of only four persons carrying the coffins. Space was left in the crypt for the missing children if they are ever found.