Martyrs of Alapayevsk | |
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| Died | 18 July 1918 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Venerated in | Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia |
| Major shrine | Elizabeth's relics in Jerusalem, others' relics in Beijing |
| Feast | January 29 July 5 |
The Martyrs of Alapayevsk (Martyrs of the Alapayevskaya Mine) are members of the House of Romanov and people close to them who were killed by Soviet authorities on the night of July 18, 1918, the day after the murder of the Romanov family. They were killed 18 km from the town of Alapayevsk near the Nizhnyaya Selimskaya Mine, in one of the mines where their bodies were dumped. On June 8, 2009, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office posthumously exonerated all those killed near Alapayevsk.[1]
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia canonized all those killed in Alapayevsk (except for F. Remez) as martyrs. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized only two of them as saints: Grand Princess Elizabeth Feodorovna and Sister Barbara (as monastic martyr).
Among the victims of the Alapayevsk massacre are:
On that place in 1995 a monastery was established in the name of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.