Coronation of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

Despite the fact that the capital at that time was Petrograd, according to the ancient tradition, the Romanovs came to be crowned in the First See. On May 26 (May 14, old style), 1896, coronation celebrations began in Moscow and the coronation took place in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The last coronation of the last emperor in the history of Russia ... Having ascended the throne in 1894, Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov postponed his coronation for a year and a half. In May 1896, when the twelve-month mourning for the unexpectedly deceased 49-nine-year-old Emperor Alexander III ended, the coronation of the new emperor was scheduled.