JAKARTA - After more than a century, Russia will again hold a royal wedding, which is planned to be attended by foreign guests.
The former capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, had the honor of holding the wedding of the Russian Royal family, where Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov will tie the knot.
Located at St Isaac's Cathedral in the City of St Petersburg, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov will marry his Italian fiancé, Victoria Romanovna Bettarini in a religious ceremony on October 1 tomorrow.
Russia's last tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children were killed by revolutionary firing squad in July 1918 in the basement of a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg, a city 1,450 km (900 miles) east of Moscow.
"This is the first place we came back to Russia," George Mikhailovich, told the news site Fontanka.ru about why he chose St. Petersburg for his wedding, as quoted by Reuters 30 September.
George Mikhailovich was born in Spain to the self-proclaimed Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, and her husband Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia. Most of the couple's life was spent in France and Spain.
His great-grandfather, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, managed to escape the violence of the Bolshevik Revolution or October Revolution in 1917 to Finland. From there, he and his family then moved to Western Europe.
To be known, George Mikhailovich visited Russia for the first time in 1992, and now lives in Moscow where he works on a number of charity projects.
While his partner, Bettarini was known to have converted to Russian Orthodoxy last year and took the name Victoria Romanovna.
The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for 300 years before Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in 1917, setting Russia on the path of the Bolshevik Revolution, experiencing civil war and 70 years of Communist rule.
The Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II in 2000, after being described as a weak leader by Soviet authorities.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
