Most noble and sublime was your life and death, O Sovereigns In 2000, after some 8 years of study, the council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church voted unanimously to recognize Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children as saints. The religious devotion and piety of the family is well documented and not seriously contested.
On the other hand, there was widespread popular devotion to Tsar Nicholas among those who claimed that he was called of God to lead his people at a difficult time in history and did so to the best of his abilities. Both within and outside of Russia there were those who claimed that Nicholas' reign was weak and prone to extravagence and indifference to the plight of Russia's needy. Nicholas and his family were glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981 but this was a hotly debated decision. The bodies were buried in an unmarked grave. On July 16, 1918, the family was lined up in the basement and shot. After the Bolshevik (October) revolution, he and his family were exiled to Siberia, where they were detained under house-arrest. In February 1917, during the February Revolution, Nicholas reluctantly abdicated the throne, hoping that doing so might save the nation some violence. The two were married in a low-key ceremony on November 14, 1894. On the next day, Princess Alice was received into the Orthodox faith and given the name Alexandra Feodorovna. On October 20, 1894, Emperor Alexander III died at the imperial palace in Livadia, Crimea. In 1894, St Nicholas received a blessing from his father to wed Princess Alice on the condition that she become Orthodox. The two became good friends, a friendship that later grew into love. Princess Alice was a daughter of Prince Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt and Princess Alice and a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of England. Alexandra, then Princess Alice Victoria Helen Louise Beatrix von Hessen-Darmstadt, at the wedding of the latter's sister, Grand Duches-Martyr St Elizabeth Fyodorovna with the Emperor's uncle, Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich. In 1884, St Nicholas met the future Empress St. He received an excellent education under the supervision of his father, speaking fluently Russian, English, French, German, and Italian, and learning Russian and world history, Russian literature, and the art of warfare. Born on, the day of the Holy Job the Long-Suffering, St Nicholas was the eldest son of Crown Prince Alexander Alexandrovich (the future Emperor Alexander III) and Grand Duchess Maria Feodorvna (the future Empress).
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