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.
The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexiy II, also enthusiastically welcomed the Romanovs' return.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They have their own Russian-language newspaper and now want an Orthodox church.
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