Descendant of Tsars Marries in Russian Soil Since Bolshevik Revolution

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OCP News Service – 3/10/21

St Petersburg-Russia: Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov married Victoria Romanovna Bettarini at the St Issac Cathedral in St Petersburg on the 2nd of October 2021. This was the first Royal wedding ceremony that took place on Russian soil since the revolution in 1917.

The wedding was officiated by Russian Orthodox priests. The Romanov family and other invited guests took part in the ceremony.

Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, the great grandfather of Mikhailovich Romanov escaped Russia during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to Finland and later moved to Western Europe. Kirill Vladimirovich lived mostly in Spain and France. His spouse Victoria Bettarini converted to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2020 and took the name Victoria Romanovna.

The last Tsar of Russia St. Nicholas II, his spouse Alexandra Fyodorovna and his children (Olga, Maria, Nicholas II, Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana) were brutally murdered by the communist revolutionaries in Yekaterinburg. Some historians have speculated that the children of the Royals escaped the murder scene. However, it remains highly controversial and disputed. The Romanov’s ruled Imperial Russia for 300 years until the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917.

In 2000, Nicholas II and his family were canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church.

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OCP News Service