The Tsar’s Cross photo album by Alexei Vladykin has been published in the Urals with the support of the regional ministry of culture to mark the upcoming 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.
The author confessed that the album took him some twenty years to create: he started working on it as soon as the information restrictions on the execution of Russia’s last Emperor Nicholas II and his family have been lifted in Russia. Over this period, the photo journalist managed to trace many important historical events that happened in the Mid Urals capital and are still of concern to many people in Russia and abroad.
The album features essays and photos of 1990-2012 telling the story of how the ‘Ekaterinburg remnants’ have been discovered, describing the expert analysis and investigations carried out by Russia’s Investigative Committee over the period of 1991-1998. It also features pictures of the solemn ceremony of sending the Imperial remnants off to St. Petersburg in 1998, visit by Patriarch Alexis of Moscow and All Russia to the Urals in 2000, construction and consecration of the Church on the Blood in Ekaterinburg and of the monasteries in Ganina Yama and Alapayevsk.
The album will be presented at the International conference “The XIV Romanovs Readings” to be held on July 17-19, 2013 in Ekaterinburg and Alapayevsk.
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