Ganina Yama

Ganina Jama (Russian Ганина Яма, literally ganja pit ) is a city in the Russian Urals. It is situated between the village and the village Schuwakisch Koptjaki, about 15 km north- west of Yekaterinburg. This used to be an iron ore mine.

At this place the remains of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna and their five children were burnt and buried after they murdered during the Russian Civil War in the Ipatiev House on the night of 16th to July 17th 1918 had been. In 1979, the remains were found by secret private investigations.

Today, a worship of the cross at the site of combustion is built.

In 2000 was founded in Ganina Jama a Russian Orthodox monastery " Monastery of the Holy Tsar Martyr ". The monastery is a unique ensemble, which consists of seven wooden churches and was built by the monks in their own work. The wood of these churches has been edited only with ax and saw. The seven churches are each dedicated to a member of the imperial family.

On 14 September 2010 a fire inter alia, the main church ( church for Nicholas II, see figure before the fire ) of the monastery damaged.

Entrance to the monastery Ganina Jama

Church of Nicholas II in Ganina Jama Monastery

The Zarenweg from Ekaterinburg to Ganina Jama

Swell

• Robert Massie: Romanovs, the Last Chapter
• G. King, P. Wilson: The Fate of the Romanovs, 2005
• MD Steinberg, VM Khrustalev: Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution, 1997
• Imagery of the author ( German )

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