The aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution continues.

Mosnews: Remains of Danish-born Russian Czarina to Make Final Journey to St. Petersburg

The final journey back to Russia for the remains of Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the mother of the last czar, begins Saturday in a royal ceremony west of Copenhagen, The Associated Press reports.

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe and descendants of Russia’s deposed royal Romanov family were to attend the memorial service, which marks the beginning of Maria Feodorovna’s last voyage across the Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg. The casket of the Danish-born wife of Czar Alexander III will be buried with her family at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in the former Russian imperial capital, where a ceremony is planned for next week.

Danish and Russian government officials were also to attend Saturday’s ceremony at the cathedral in Roskilde, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Copenhagen, where Maria Feodorovna’s casket has been resting alongside Danish kings and queens since her death in 1928.

After the ceremony, a motorcade including the hearse will drive to Copenhagen, where a mounted army regiment will join the procession through the city and to the harbor. The coffin will be put aboard a Danish navy support ship, Esbern Snare, which is due to arrive in St. Petersburg on Sept. 26.

Since the end of the Cold War, the Romanov family have been working for the remains of Maria Feodorovna to be sent to Russia.

Born in 1847 as Princess Dagmar, the daughter of Denmark’s King Christian IX and Queen Louise, she converted from the Lutheran Church to the Russian Orthodox faith when she married Alexander. The couple had six children, including Nicholas II, who became czar in 1894 and was executed a year after the Bolshevik revolution.

Nicholas II and his family were killed in 1918, 16 months after he abdicated the throne. His remains were ceremoniously buried in 1998 in St. Petersburg. Maria Feodorovna fled St. Petersburg in 1917 and reached Copenhagen through the Crimean Peninsula and London.