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Russian Conservatives Up In Arms Over Film About Last TsarAlthough only scheduled for release in March 2017, a new film about the early life of the last Russian tsar has some conservative activists up in arms.Only the trailer from the film Matilda, by director Aleksei Uchitel, is available, but that has been enough for the nongovernmental Tsar's Cross organization to denounce it as pornographic and unpatriotic."Against a general background of degradation, this film is just another attempt to insult something that is holy for the Russian people," the organization's leader, Nikolai Mishustin, wrote on social media on November 3.Matilda tells the story of a three-year love affair between the future Tsar Nicholas II and a teenaged ballet dancer named Matilde Kshesinskaya. After the affair, which ended in 1894 when Nicholas married the German princess who became Empress Aleksandra, Kshesinskaya married the tsar's cousin, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich. She died in 1971.Nicholas, together with his entire family, was executed after the 1917 Bolshevik coup. They were canonized as Russian Orthodox saints in 2000.Read More At: http://www.rferl.org/a/russia-conservatives-attack-film-last-tsar-affair/28095449.html
