The Church on the Blood has become the symbol of Ekaterinburg.
A tragic historic event is the reason for building The Church at that particular place.
The Church stands on the place of the brutal murder of the last
Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children Grand
Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevitch Alexis. They
were executed by Bolsheviks at the engineer Ipatiev’s house on the night
of July 16, 1918.In 1977, the house was torn down, following the order of Boris Yeltsin, the then leader of Ural Communists, who later became first Russia’s President.
The Church on the Blood was consecrated on the 16th of July, 2003.
The ground floor of The Church, which is in the place of the basement of the Ipatiev’s house, tells the story of the canonized Romanov family. The part of the basement where the family was executed unites the upper and the lower churches, which makes The Church.
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