Church of All Saints ( Church of the Blood) (Yekaterinburg)

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Church on Blood in Honor of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land is a Russian Orthodox church in Yekaterinburg commemorating the Romanov sainthood.
After the February Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were taken captive and held as prisoners during the Russian Civil War. The Tsar and his family were initially kept near St. Petersburg but as fears of a potential attempt of their liberation grew larger the decision to execute the imperial family became a reality. On July 17, 1918 while imprisoned in Yekaterinburg, a town in the Ural Mountains, the entire imperial family, Tsar Nicholas II, Alexandra, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia was taken to the cellar of the Ipatiev House and assassinated.