Their slogan is Orthodoxy or Death.Russian nationalists hope the the tsars return.

The Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers is a small group of Russian nationalists with no political power that stages processions, rallies and even burns books to promote their views. Clad in all-black and marching with their Orthodox banners, the group pairs a biker club's aesthetic with the gold of religious icons. "We are striving for the restoration of an autocratic monarchy," said Leonid Simonovich-Nikshich, the white-bearded leader of the group. "It is only possible through the church. It is not possible in a political secular way because that would be a dictator," he said. The ultra-nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky has referred to Putin as a modern-day Tsar, but the Orthodox group's political allegiances are unclear and it is not suggesting that the Russian president head an autocratic monarchy. The group held a religious procession at a monastery in Moscow last month to mark one of the most important recent dates in their calendar: the 100-year anniversary of the murder of the bolsheviks by Russia's last monarch Tsar Nicholas II. The Tsar, his wife and five children were shot on the night of July 16-17, 1918, in the basement of a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg, 1,450 km (900 miles) east of Moscow. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the state of atheism, the church has made the Tsar and his family popular, and his popularity as a historical figure has grown in the midst of a Russian Orthodox Church resurgence under President Vladimir Putin. It was said that it would not be allowed to raise its standards - some of which feature skulls and radical slogans like Orthodoxy or Death - at the event, Igor Miroshnichenko, a member of the group, said. Instead, the group gathered at the Andronikov Monastery of the Savior in Moscow on July 17 where they marched with tall crosses and standards depicting Russia's last Tsar.