Monarchist attempts to set fire to cinema defending honour of Russia’s last tsar
On September 4, a bus carrying a barrel of flammable liquid and gas cylinders drove into the Kosmos cinema door in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Then it was set on fire by its driver Denis Murashov. According to a number of Russian public figures, in such a way, he protested against showing a film about the Polish lover of Russia’s last tsar Nicholas (Romanov), which he called ‘porn’.
According to Russian investigators, the royalist bomber was under psychiatric treatment.
On August 17, Murashov went to the city of Tyumen to take part in a protest against the screening of Mathilde, a movie by Russian film director Alexei Uchitel. He told local journalists that the work should be presented to ‘penguins in Antarctica’, not in Russia.
Mathilde, which will premiere on October 25, has already caused a stir among the Russian public. It shows love story of the famous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska and Nicholas II. The latter was killed by Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918.
In August 2000, the Romanov family was canonized as passion bearers by the Moscow Patriarchate.
