St.
Petersburg: The descendants of the former Russian Imperial family married his Italian bride on Friday in the first royal wedding that took place in Russian land since Tsar more than a century ago.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov tied the knot with Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, an Italian, in the Cathedral of St.
Ishak on the former capital of the Russian Empire St Petersburg.
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conducted a complicated ceremony, witnessed by hundreds of guests including the groom’s mother, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna from Russia – heir who proclaimed himself to the throne of the Russian Empire – and more than a dozen European Royals.
Grandfather George Mikhailovich, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, fled Russia during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, fled first to Finland and then moved with his family to Western Europe.
The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, his wife and five children were killed by a revolutionary firing team in July 1918, in the basement of a trader in Yekaterinburg, a city of 1,450 km (900 miles) to the east of Moscow.
George Mikhailovich, 40, was born in Madrid and had undergone most of his life in Spain and France.
Bettarini, 39, who changed Russian orthodox belief last year and took the name Victoria Romanovna, leaned to the altar by his father, Roberto Bettarini, who had served in the Italian diplomatic service.
George Mikhailovich visited Russia for the first time in 1992 and moved to Moscow in 2019, where he worked on a number of charitable projects.
Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia for more than 300 years before Nicholas II fell two of 1917, establishing a country on the path for the Bolshevik Revolution in November of that year, civil war and 70 years of communist power.
The Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 Canised Nicholas II, which was described as a weak leader by the Soviet authorities.