In the night of 16/17 July, 1918 Nicholas II and his family were executed in the basement of Ipatiev house in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Already in the 1920s Russian emigrants started praying to the Royal Martyrs as Saints. In 1981 Royal martyrs was canonized by the decision of the Council of the bishops of ROCOR.

In priest Ioann Kliarovich decided to make in the house he owned a church in memory of the murdered Czar and his family. Since the church could not be consecrated in the name of the martyrs yet not glorified, it was decided to decicate the new church to the favorite icon of Nicholas II, Our Lady of Kazan, and to name the church the Memorial to the Royal Martyrs.

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