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Article: A protracted exit. (formal burial of Czar Nicholas II of Russia)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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With subdued pomp and circumstance, the russian people finally bury czar Nicholas II and his family, who were assassinated by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
We have been waiting for two hours, but the Russian people have been waiting for eighty years to bury Czar Nicholas II. Behind me, to the tight, is the entrance to the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Multilingual guides hold up numbered signs or closed umbrellas as they lead tour parades up the steps into the museum. In front of me are four rows of people, the back of a Russian soldier dressed in army fatigues, an empty boulevard, and the River Neva. Across the river I can see Petersburg Island. The ...