(1896) The Last King’s Coronation In The Russian Empire

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The coronation (Holy Coronation) of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was the last coronation of an emperor and his wife in the Russian Empire. It took place on Tuesday, May 14, 1896, in the Moscow Kremlin’s Assumption Cathedral.

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Translation: «The Coronation of the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich»
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Translation: «The Coronation of the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich»
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On May 14, the day of the Coronation, all of Saint Petersburg’s churches read the liturgy and chanted prayers of gratitude. The metropolitan cathedrals couldn’t accommodate all the worshippers, so they also held prayers in the Horse Guards and in the squares adjacent to several cathedrals and churches.

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At 10:00, the coronation ritual began, with the emperor, his mother, and his wife seated on thrones on a specially constructed raised platform in the cathedral’s center. The emperor occupied the throne of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, while Empress Alexandra Feodorovna sat on the throne of Grand Prince Ivan III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna on the throne of Tsar Alexy Mikhailovich Tishayshy.

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Documentary filmmaker Camille Cerf, a Frenchman, was the sole one filming the coronation. The Lumiere brothers did not sell their movie cameras, so Cerf visited the Russian Empire in early May 1896 with his film equipment. He was granted formal authorization to shoot the coronation ceremony right away. The world’s first reportage film screened in Paris (France) on June 24, 1896, and later in Saint Petersburg.

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  1. The video colorization is made with the help of machine learning tools and might be not 100% historically accurate.
  2. Background music in the video (Keys of Moon — Downpour) is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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