he bulldozed the house. he bulldozed thats now yekaterinburg where the czar and his family and servants were machine gunned in the basement. they ripped it all down. destroyed it as a site. boris yeltsin would later go on to become the first post-soviet leader of the new russia after the collapse of the soviet union. and he had long said that he regretted that decision back in yekaterinburg. it weighed on him over the years. he regretted it. once he became president of russia, he rectified that decision. you can t unbulldoze anything. you can t rebuild what has been destroyed. you can t re-create history. but in 1998, boris yeltsin, then as president of russia, gave czar nicholas ii and his family a funeral. gave them a proper religious funeral. and then within a couple years, they started construction on a
and he had long said that he regretted that decision back in yekaterinburg. it weighed on him over the years. he regretted it. once he became president of russia, he rectified that decision. you can t unbulldoze anything. you can t rebuild what has been destroyed. you can t re-create history. but in 1998, boris yeltsin, then as president of russia, gave czar nicholas ii and his family a funeral. gave them a proper religious funeral. and then within a couple years, they started construction on a fairly grand church on site where the family had been murdered, where yeltsin had previously ordered the house to be destroyed. this started the work on that church in 2000. it was completed by 2003. even today if you google pictures of yekaterinburg, what church. it s very grand. it s covered in gold domes,
you can t unbulldoze anything. you can t rebuild what has been destroyed. you can t re-create history. but in 1998, boris yeltsin, then as president of russia, gave czar nicholas ii and his family a funeral. gave them a proper religious funeral. and then within a couple years, they started construction on a fairly grand church on site where the family had been murdered, where yeltsin had previously ordered the house to be destroyed. this started the work on that church in 2000. it was completed by 2003. even today if you google pictures of yekaterinburg, what pops up are pictures of that church. it s very grand. it s covered in gold domes, giant orthodox crosses. and because it s russia, it has a fittingly dramatic russian name. it s called the cathedral on the blood. so yekaterinburg is an interesting place. the biggest draw is the