<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Boris_Yeltsin" id="mwAU4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin's funeral</a>: The first to be sanctioned by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" id="mwAU8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia" id="mwAVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexander III of Russia">Alexander III</a> in 1894.