Tsar Nicholas II Romanov family Orthodox Christian Byzantine Wooden Icon Handmad

Description

The icon is accompanied by a certificate of manufacture. The icon is 3 cm (1.1" inches) thick. Size: 10*15 cm (3.9*5.9 inches)
Now the rules for paying via Paypal have become a little tougher. Be sure to make sure that the address you specify on Etsy is exactly the same as on Paypal. Otherwise, you will not be able to place an order!
Royal Passion-bearers, Royal martyrs, the Royal Family — this is how the Russian Orthodox Church calls the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family: Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarevich Alexey, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia after being canonized. They were canonized for the feat of martyrdom — on the night of July 16-17, 1918, by order of the Bolsheviks, they were shot together with the court doctor and servants in Ipatiev's house in Yekaterinburg.
"Passion-bearer" is one of the orders of holiness. This is a saint who suffered a martyr's death for fulfilling God's Commandments, and most often — at the hands of co-religionists. An important part of the feat of the passion — bearer is that the martyr does not hold a grudge against the tormentors and does not resist. This is the face of the saints who suffered not for their actions or for the preaching of Christ, but for who they were. The fidelity of the passion-bearers to Christ is expressed in their fidelity to their vocation and destiny.
The memory of the Holy Passion-Bearers of Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexy, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia is celebrated on the day of their murder — July 17 according to the new style
Murder of the Romanov family
The last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II Romanov, abdicated on March 2, 1917. After his abdication, he, along with his family, a doctor and servants, were placed under house arrest in a palace in Tsarskoye Selo. Then, in the summer of 1917, the Provisional Government sent the prisoners into exile in Tobolsk. And finally, in the spring of 1918, the Bolsheviks exiled them to Yekaterinburg. It was there that on the night of July 16-17, the Royal family was shot-by the decree of the executive committee of the Ural Regional Council of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers ' Deputies.
Some historians believe that the order for the execution was received directly from Lenin and Sverdlov. The question of whether this is so is debatable, perhaps historical science has yet to find out the truth.
Very little is known about the Yekaterinburg period of exile of the Royal Family. Several entries in the emperor's diary have come down to us; there are testimonies of witnesses in the case of the murder of the Royal Family. In the house of the engineer Ipatiev Nicholas II and his family were guarded by 12 soldiers. In fact, it was a prison. The prisoners slept on the floor; the guards were often cruel to them; the prisoners were allowed to walk in the garden only one time a day.
The royal passion-bearers courageously accepted their fate. We have received a letter from Princess Olga, where she writes: "The Father asks me to tell all those who remained loyal to him, and those on whom they can have influence, that they do not take revenge for him, since he forgave everyone and prays for everyone, and that they do not take revenge for themselves, and that they remember that the evil that is now in the world will be even stronger, but that evil will not overcome evil, but only love."
The arrested were allowed to attend the services. Prayer was a great comfort to them. The last service in the Ipatiev house was performed by Archpriest John Storozhev just a few days before the execution of the Royal Family — on July 14, 1918.
On the night of July 16-17, the chekist and head of the execution, Yakov Yurovsky, woke up the emperor, his wife and children. They were told to gather under the pretext that there was unrest in the city and they urgently needed to move to a safe place. The prisoners were escorted to a basement room with one barred window, where Yurovsky told the Emperor: "Nikolai Alexandrovich, by the decree of the Ural Regional Council, you will be shot with your family." The chekist shot Nicholas II several times, other participants of the execution-at the rest of the sentenced. Those who fell, but were still alive, were finished off with shots and stabbed with bayonets. The bodies were taken out to the yard, loaded into a truck and taken to Ganina Pit — an abandoned Isetsky . They threw it into a mine, then burned it and buried it.
Together with the Royal family, the court doctor Yevgeny Botkin and several servants were shot: the maid Anna Demidova, the cook Ivan Kharitonov and the valet Alexey Troup
On July 21, 1918, during a divine service at the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow, Patriarch Tikhon said: "A terrible thing happened the other day: the former Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich was shot... We must, obeying the teaching of the word of God, condemn this deed, otherwise the blood of the executed person will fall on us, and not only on those who committed it. We know that when he abdicated, he did it with the benefit of Russia in mind and out of love for it. He could have found security and a relatively quiet life abroad after his abdication, but he did not do this, wanting to suffer together with Russia. He did nothing to improve his situation, meekly submitted to fate."
For many decades, no one knew where the executioners buried the bodies of the executed Royal Passion-Bearers. And only in July 1991, the alleged remains of five members of the imperial family and servants were discovered near Yekaterinburg, under the embankment of the Old Koptyakovskaya Road. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia opened a criminal case and during the investigation confirmed that these are indeed prisoners of the Ipatievsky House.
After several years of research and public disputes, on July 17, 1998, the martyrs were buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. And in July 2007, the remains of the son of Tsarevich Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria were found.
Canonization of the Royal Family
The Russian diaspora has been praying for the repose of the Royal Family since the 1920s. In 1981, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad canonized Nicholas II and his family.
The Russian Orthodox Church canonized the Royal Martyrs almost twenty years later — in 2000: "To glorify the royal family as passion-bearers in the host of new martyrs and confessors of Russia: Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexy, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia."
The icon is painted on a natural wooden board made of solid stained oak. For the design of the image, special front-floor primers, leveling varnishes and tempera paints were used.
Each icon is accompanied by a numbered certificate with full information about it.
Each icon is accompanied by a numbered certificate with full information about it. Each icon comes in a gift box.