Her friend Alexander Schmorell was made a saint by the Russian Orthodox church in 2012.
Well, All Night Vigil is a choral work written for the Russian Orthodox Church.
Also in support are Mormons, Missouri Senate Lutherans, and Greek and Russian Orthodox churches.
The beaming tourists bear Russian names and the women wear the scarves of Russian Orthodox believers.
The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexiy II, also enthusiastically welcomed the Romanovs' return.
The Islamic mufti and the Russian Orthodox archbishop regularly appear together publicly to promote religious and ethnic harmony.
And the Russian Orthodox Church has been worrying whether the bones are really those of the tsar at all.
Even since then, some members of the Russian Orthodox Church have continued to question the scientists' conclusions, our correspondent says.
The cult, which calls itself the "true Russian Orthodox Church, " believes the end of the world will come in May 2008.
Father Dimitry's dilemma had been that of the whole Russian Orthodox Church.
Mr Hosking dwells on the alternating use and abuse of the Russian Orthodox church, and the resistance and betrayals that this treatment provoked.
Shanghai's small Russian Orthodox community has also, for the first time, received permission to use one of the pre-war churches built by White Russians.
Patriarch Alexy, head of the Russian Orthodox church, is staying away because of the doubts felt by many of his flock about the remains' identity.
The Russian Orthodox Church has apologised for showing a photo of its leader Patriarch Kirill that was doctored to airbrush out a luxury watch he was wearing.
"In Russia, there isn't a Serbian Orthodox Church, but the Russian Orthodox Church, in Bulgaria there is Bulgarian one, in Romania a Romanian one, " Metropolitan Mihailo told me.
This is mainly a legacy of Soviet mistrust, coupled with the very bad reputation that charities connected to military ex-servicemen, the Russian Orthodox church and sport gained in the immediate post-Soviet period.
Mr Nemtsov revealed that the commission thought March 1 was the best day for the burial - it's the Sunday before Lent, a Russian Orthodox holiday known as Forgiveness Sunday, when believers repent their sins.
"I'm a die-hard Republican, but I have to say this year things are going to be a little different for me, " said Remington, who is part of the town's tight-knit Russian Orthodox community.
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The question is just one of the ten submitted by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to a government commission set up two years ago, but whose work is only now coming into fruition.
He's been struck by the little wooden houses that dot a Russian Orthodox cemetery in Fairbanks, Alaska, the photographs on tombstones in Key West, Florida, and the inscriptions he's come across during his travels.
In a letter to Kirill, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mr Yerofeev apologised for inadvertently hurting the feeling of believers, but blasted the church for siding with a group of anti-Semitic, militant radicals.
Not everyone is happy with this proposal: the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, is reported to be against the idea of using music he believes many people still associate with repression and state-imposed atheism.
The decision to canonise the family was taken by a council of Russian Orthodox bishops - the same group that opted in 1997 to shelve the issue by putting it to a larger and long overdue gathering of the faithful.
Russian Orthodox Church leaders say they asked the question not because they suspect there's any truth in the Jewish conspiracy theory, but because they want the government to help them put an end to any lingering doubts in the minds of Russian believers.
Alexander's brother Leonid, like a small but influential trickle of Russian-Jewish intellectuals, is an Orthodox Christian.
They have their own Russian-language newspaper and now want an Orthodox church.
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Small religious parties seek greater social spending for their constituents, while a party representing secular Russian Jews focuses on undermining a law exempting ultra-Orthodox Israelis from military service.
Turkey even appears to have colluded with the Russian patriarch, Kirill, to limit the powers of the Greek Orthodox patriarch in Istanbul, Bartholomew I, usually seen as first among equals in the Orthodox hierarchy.
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While the Polish Orthodox Church is an independent institution, links to its Russian counterpart are still strong and it is regarded with suspicion by many Polish Catholics, according to a report in France's Le Figaro.
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