Church of All Saints, Yekaterinburg

Ipatiev House The Ipatiev House, built in the 1880s, was a spacious and modern residence owned by Nicholas Ipatiev. The Ural Soviet gave him two days' notice to leave. Once the building was vacated, the Soviets built high wooden walls around the house. Czechoslovak Legions captured the city less than a week later. ==Church history==

's "Church on the Blood" built on the spot where the last Tsar and his family were murdered. On , the Sverdlovsk Soviet handed the plot to the Russian Orthodox Church for construction of a memorial chapel. After the former Tsar and his family were canonized as "Passion Bearers", the Church planned to build an impressive memorial complex dedicated to the Romanov family. A state commission was gathered and architectural as well as funding plans were developed. Construction began in 2000. The completed complex comprises two churches, a belfry, a patriarchal annex, and a museum dedicated to the former imperial family; assisted by Russian Orthodox clergy from all over the Russian Federation. Since 2007, on Christmas Day (January 7), the international ice sculpture festival "Bethlehem Star" has been held at the Church of All Saints. In 2017, twenty teams from different cities of Russia took part in it. ==The Cross==

On one side of the church, there is an Orthodox cross which marks the exact location of the basement of the Ipatiev house, where the Romanov Family was murdered. Even during the Soviet era, there were crosses in that area built clandestinely by local monarchists but it changed over time. Different crosses were replaced by a new one as the years went by as communist authorities removed the previous ones. A small wooden structure was eventually built behind the cross and stands near the church. ==See also==