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Alexei Nikolaevich (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич; 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1904 – 17 July 1918) was the last Russian tsesarevich (heir apparent). [note 1] He was the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Unknown to all but the royal family, Alexei was expected to die of hemophilia and was at one point so close to death that the Russian Imperial Court had already drawn up his death certificate. When Alexei survived, Fabergé, who knew of the Tsarevich's health, created the egg for Alexei's mother as a tribute to the miracle of his survival. [4] [5]
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Several men claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, including: Vasily Filatov, whose claim came from Astrakhan, Russia, shortly before his death in 1988. [7] Eugene Nicolaievich Ivanoff, whose claim emerged from Poland in 1927. George Zhudin (?–1930), lived with Eleonora Kruger and died in a Bulgarian village;
Tsarevich Alexei Alexeyevich (Russian: Алексей Алексеевич, Aleksey Alekseyevich; 15 February 1654 – 17 January 1670) was the second son and heir of Tsar Alexis of Russia and Maria Miloslavskaya, brother of Tsar Feodor III, Tsar Ivan V, and Tsarevna Sophia and half-brother of Tsar Peter the Great.
The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Eastern Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last imperial family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei – by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Tsar Alexei chooses his bride, by Grigory Sedov (the winner of the Tsardom-wide contest organized by Boris Morozov was his relative Maria Miloslavskaya) Alexis's first marriage to Miloslavskaya was harmonious and felicitous. They had thirteen children (five sons and eight daughters) in twenty-one years of marriage, and she died only weeks after ...
Tsarevich Ivan Alekseyevich 1670–1676, brother Tsarevich Ivan Alekseyevich: Heir presumptive: brother: 29 January 1676: brother became tsar: 7 May 1682: became tsar: Tsarevich Peter Alekseyvich 1676–1682, half-brother: Feodor III: succession uncertain 1682–1690: Ivan V and Peter I (jointly) Grand Duke Alexei Petrovich: Heir presumptive ...