Alexy II to attend empress's reburial
MOSCOW. Jan 13 (Interfax)
Patriarch Alexy II is expected to attend the reburial of the remains of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, mother of Russia's last Emperor Nicholas II, Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Mikhail Dudko told Interfax on Tuesday.
The ceremony is scheduled for September, as Maria Fyodorovna, born Danish Princess Maria Sophia Fredericke Dagmar, arrived in Russia on September 26, 1866.
Dudko said the patriarch and Danish Ambassador to Russia Lars Vissing discussed all issues relating to the reburial during their meeting in Moscow last October. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG DK POL REL] tm tl <>