Romanovs. Piety of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II

                           

I n this video you can see a newsreel from the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD). This newsreel stamped those moments when the Russian Emperor Nicholas II together with his Family attends the divine services, kisses reverently the cross and the icons, blesses his troops, makes the sign of the cross, participates in the sacred processions and converses with the religious leaders. 

Soundtrack: 1) Song «Tsar Nicholas» (written and composed by Gennady Ponomarev; sung by the famous Russian singer Zhanna Bichevskaya in 1999); 2) Fragment of the national anthem of the Russian Empire «God Save the Tsar» (another name: «The Prayer of Russians»; written by Vasily Zhukovsky in 1814, sung by Zhanna Bichevskaya).