A 12-meter-long mural of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, has been completed on the facade of the Government Statistics Office in Yekaterinburg, the city where he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Orthodox clerics will bless the mural this morning to mark Russia's National Unity Day. The creation was initiated by TV presenter Boris Kurchevnikov, after a local historian identified a number of inaccuracies in the original design, including a railway with three tracks.

A 12-meter-long mural of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, has been completed on the facade of the Government Statistics Office in Yekaterinburg, the city where he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Orthodox clerics will bless the mural this morning to mark Russia's National Unity Day. The creation was initiated by TV presenter Boris Kurchevnikov, after a local historian identified a number of inaccuracies in the original design, including a railway with three tracks.