The Snap Shot Comments

'Exactly 80 years after their execution by Bolshevicks in Ipatiev house, on July 17 of 1998, the last Czar of Russia and his family were buried in the crypt of St Petersburg's St Peter and Paul Cathedral. Addressing the burial ceremony, President Boris Yeltsin described the murder of the Romanovs as one of the most shameful pages in Russian history and urged Russians to close a 'bloody century' with repentance.'

The photographer’s assistants bring two chairs into the room
These are for Alexei and Alix,
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