Her friend Alexander Schmorell was made a saint by the Russian Orthodox church in 2012.
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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.
As a proof of the two men's continuing personal closeness, he cited their common interest in Russian Orthodox theology and culture a topic on which the number of potential conversation partners is limited.
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.
By contrast, after nearly five generations of state atheism and with the Russian Orthodox Church deeply compromised by its cooperation with the totalitarian regime, faith can hardly be expected to provide inspiration for the remaking of Russia.
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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.
Yes, the 22, 000 Polish officers (including hundreds of Polish Jews as well as Russian Orthodox, Protestants and Muslim Tatars in Polish uniform) killed in the forest pale against other death counts from the Holocaust to the tens of millions of Soviet citizens who perished under Stalin.
The punk prayer was inspired by the women's anger about the relationship between the Russian government and the Orthodox Church, according to the band's manager, who is married to one of the suspects.
Alexander's brother Leonid, like a small but influential trickle of Russian-Jewish intellectuals, is an Orthodox Christian.
The attacks came during a three-day lull in Russian operations, which coincided with the Orthodox Christmas and the end of the Muslim Eid festival.
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