Moscow, July 24 (RIA Novosti) - The remains of Admiral Ivan Grigorovich (1853-1930), Russia's last Imperial Navy Minister, have been brought back to his homeland from Mentone, in southeastern France, where he emigrated after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
Rear Admiral Alexander Tatarinov, Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, and Admiral Vladimir Valuyev, of the Baltic Sea Fleet, gathered Sunday in the southern Russian port of Novorosiisk to meet the cruiser with Grigorovich's remains. In keeping with his last will, the imperial minister will now be laid to rest in the family tomb at St. Petersburg's Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
