The Boston Globe, April 30th, 2007
HISTORY WAS made in Moscow last week. For the first time since the funeral of Czar Alexander III in 1894, a Russian head of state was laid to rest according to the rites of the Orthodox Church. The New York Times report of the burial of Boris Yeltsin noted the liturgy, incense, chanting, ministrations of vested clergy - all of it. That the ceremony was held in Christ the Savior Cathedral, which had been demolished by the Soviets in 1931, the very year Yeltsin was born, then rebuilt under Yeltsin, only emphasized the momentous reversal that has occurred since the Soviet Union ceased to exist. F...
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