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Hundreds of believers gathered Thursday at an Orthodox fair in the former imperial capital of Saint Petersburg to worship a "miracle-working" icon of Russia's last monarch....   >>>

Hundreds of believers gathered Thursday at an Orthodox fair in the former imperial capital of Saint Petersburg to worship a "miracle-working" icon of Russia's last monarch.

Tsar Nicholas II was shot by the Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution together with his family, and canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.

"I am a Russian and an Orthodox, and for me the martyr saint Nicholas II is the symbol of Russia," 65 year-old Anatoly Kruglov said while standing in a long line to kiss the icon, which was brought to an expo centre south of the city.



**The excerpt above is taken from the Yahoo/AFP site, "Russians worship 'miraculous' icon of tsar," which is linked below. Do click through to read more about this story of the Romanovs. The image is in the public domain.**