On 14th June 2026, a new bust-monument to Emperor Nicholas II was unveiled and consecrated on the grounds of the Church of All Russian Saints (ROCOR) in Burlingme (app.17 miles south of San Francisco), California. This is the second bust-monument to Russia’s last Tsar to be installed in the United States.
Several hundred parishioners attended the event, which was timed to the third Sunday after Pentecost and the Feast of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Russian Land.
His Grace Bishop Peter of Seattle celebrated the Divine Liturgy. Concelebrating with His Grace were the parish Rector, Mitred Archpriest Stefan Pavlenko, and clergy of the Western American Diocese.
Following the Divine Liturgy, a procession took place during which a monument to the Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II was blessed. The monument was erected through the efforts of Anna Generalova.
The honour of unveiling the bust-monument was given to the benefactors of the project and a descendant of the House of Romanov, Princess Victoria Golitsyna.
Princess Victoria Golitsyna is a descendant of Emperor Paul I on her father’s side and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander III on her mother’s side. Her participation gave the ceremony a special historical meaning and symbolism.
In the courtyard of the parish a beautifully decorated exhibition dedicated to the Imperial Family was presented. High-quality photographs, historical materials and stands told about the life of Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and their children.
The bronze bust was a copy of the work of the famous Russian sculptor Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Klykov (1938-2006).
Recall that the first bust-monument to Nicholas II installed in the United States took place on 17th July 2018, in the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign in New York City – also a copy of Klykov’s.
According to the head of the Foundation “Under the Protection of the Mother of God” Eugene (Evgeny) Korolev:
“This image was first made before the revolution, out of stone. During Perestroika in the Soviet Union, vandals desecrated it,” Korolev explained. “After the fall of the USSR, in 1993, the bust was brought from Crimea to Moscow, to the workshop of Russian national artist Vyacheslav Klykov. He created a mold of the bust and poured it in bronze. Unfortunately, we do not know the identity of the original artist who created this marvelous work. But we do know that this monument is considered the most faithful to the likeness of Emperor Nicholas II. I would like to offer my respect to Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Klykov, for granting new life to this work of art.
Nicholas II 
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