The bloody revolutions of 18th Century France and 20th Century Russia, which toppled monarchies and executed royal families, were horrors that ushered in other national terrors that, in Russia’s case, continued until just a few decades ago; and this deeply touching article about a recent concert and multi-media presentation in the largest church in Russia about the execution of the Romanovs, will help you understand what happened then and what is happening now.
An excerpt.
“The story of the last days of the Romanovs is well known. Czar Nicholas II, embroiled in a terrible war with Germany and Austro-Hungary, decided to abdicate his throne on March 15, 1917. Without a single strong leader, Russia was soon in political turmoil. Out of the turmoil, the tiny but compact and single-minded Bolsheviks emerged as Russia's new rulers toward the end of 1917.
“Nicholas and his family were soon placed under house arrest. They gardened, read books, prayed. Then, in the summer of 1918, on the evening of July 17, they were taken to the basement room of their prison, and shot to death. Their bodies were then burned.
“Russia had made a clean break with its monarchical, and Christian, past.
“The age of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and of anti-Christian state atheism had begun.”
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
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- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.