The Imperial House is in Court Again

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow on 19 March 2010 partially granted the Head of the Russian Imperial House Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Her will [To read details in English...]

New Big Interview of Grand Duke

Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhaylovich gave a new detailed interview on the position of Russian Imperial House on actual circumstances in Russia to the biggest Russian information agency INTERFAX. [To read in English...]

Current activity of the RIU-O

You may read news about current (March 2010) activity of the Russian Imperial Union-Order in Moscow, Kiev, Saransk, and Astrakhan in English at the official site of the Chancellery of the Commander of the RIU-O.

Monarchical Centre of Youth

On 21 February 2010 in Astrakhan (a regional centre in southern Russia) the members of the Russian Imperial Union-Order established the Monarchical Centre of Youth “The Southern Outpost.” [To read the detailed information in English...]

Grand Duke is 29

On 13 March 2010 Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhaylovich celebrates His 29th Birthday.
On occasion of His Imperial Highness Birthday solemn prayers were performed in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
In Saint Petersburg the solemn prayer was performed in the Kazanskiy Cathedral in the presence of the Commander of the Russian Imperial Union-Order Sir Georgiy Fedoroff, Secretary General of the RIU-O Sir Andrei Sorokin and the Member of the Supreme Council of the RIU-O Sir Boris Turovskiy.
In Moscow the solemn prayer was performed in the Verkhne-Petrovskiy Cloister under the blessings from bishop Mercury of Zaraysk in presence of plenty of monarchists.
Chancellery of the Commander of the RIU-O

News from German Friends

On the occasion of the 200th year of death of Queen Luise, the Foundation for Prussian Castles and Gardens, so the house of Prussia, proclaimed 2010 as year of Luise ("Luisenjahr"). Until today, historians unanimously acknowledge that Queen Louise played a key role in preventing Prussia to collapse internally after the heavy military defeat at the Battle of Jena and Auerstedt on 14 October 1806. Legendary is also an encounter of Luise with Napoleon Bonaparte on 6 July 1807 in Tilsit.

The newspaper Die Welt reports about the ambiguous relationship of modern Germany to Prussia. On the one hand, the State of Prussia was disbanded in 1947 by the victorious powers of World War II as a "hotbed of militarism", on the other hand one can historically not even think of Germany without Prussia. Already the fact, that radical democrats had to extort forcibly the commitmet to "Deutschtum" from King Frederick William IV of Prussia at the March Revolution of 1948 gives evidence how false and unfair the accusation of Prussia as the "hoard of the exaggerated german identity ("Hort der Deutschtümelei") actually is.

The German Monarchist Society plans for July 2010 the reestablishment of the Queen Luise Union ("Königin Luise Bund"), a monarchist womens organistion, that was banned by the Nazis in 1934.