Monarchists Mark Czar’s Abdication

Sun., March 16, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

About 500 monarchists marched through central Moscow Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the abdication of Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II.

Carrying portraits of the czar, Russian monarchist flags and banners painted with the monarchist coat-of-arms, they passed near the Kremlin.

Another ceremony was held in the city of Pskov, where the czar signed his abdication manifesto on March 15, 1917.

The czar abdicated in the wake of mass protests that the government was unable to control, ending the Romanov family’s long rule and the monarchy in Russia.

On July 17, 1918, a Bolshevik firing squad shot to death Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their five children and several servants. Their bodies were dumped in a pit.

The 1991 Soviet collapse resulted in the end of the czar’s official demonization and the emergence of a small but hard-core movement that wants to restore the monarchy in Russia.

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