Tsar Nicholas II stood within the hallowed steps of his family's luxurious palace. He was dressed in full ceremonial regalia, as he gazed upon the painting commissioned by one of his court artisans. The piece depicted Bruno in almost saintlike light.
Wearing his Russian Field Marshal uniform with full honors, which he had been granted, Bruno was clutching a Fedorov Avtomat to one arm while holding a Russian Orthodox bible within the same hand which the rifle was shouldered.
As for his free hand, it was held up in a religious position with Orthodox prayer beads dangling from it. The aura of light raining down on him, and the saintly circle behind his head did little to hide the fact of the veneration which the house of Romanov had to their great protector.
Passing by the painting which Nicholas was inspecting with a satisfied smirk on his face was his youngest daughter, Anastasia. The painting depicted Bruno in his younger years, as he was when he first met the Russian Tsar.
