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Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsesarevich of Russia   by jekky

(4401, ‘Life br Alexei was born on 12 August 1904 30 July O S in Peterhof He was the youngest of five children and the only boy His older sisters were the Grand Duchesses Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia He was doted on by his parents and sisters and known as Baby in the family He was later also affectionately referred to as Alyosha and Lyoshka br Alexei was christened on 3 September 1904 in the chapel in Peterhof Palace His principal godparents were his paternal grandmother and his great uncle Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich His other godparents included his oldest sister Olga his great grandfather King Christian IX of Denmark King Edward VII of the United Kingdom the Prince of Wales and the William II Kaiser of Germany As Russia was at war with Japan all the soldiers and officers of the Russian Army and Navy were named honorary godfathers br The christening marked the first time some of the younger members of the Imperial Family including some of the younger sons of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich as well as the Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana and their cousin Princess Irina Alexandrovna were present at an official ceremony For the occasion the boys wore miniature military uniforms and the girls wore a smaller version of the court dress and little kokoshniks The sermon was delivered by John of Kronstadt and the baby was carried to the font by the elderly Mistress of the Robes Princess Galitzine As a precaution she had rubber soles put to her shoes to avoid falling and dropping him Countess Sophie Buxhoeveden recalled br The baby lay on a pillow of cloth of gold slung to the Princess s shoulders by a broad gold band He was covered with the heavy cloth of gold mantle lined with ermine worn by the heir to the crown The mantle was supported on one side by Prince Alexander Sergeiovich Dolgorouky the Grand Marshal of the Court and on the other by Count Paul Benckendorff as decreed by custom and wise precaution The baby wept loudly as might any ordinary baby when old Father Yanishev dipped him in the font His four small sisters in short Court dresses gazed open eyed at the ceremony Olga Nicholaevna then nine years old being in the important position of one of the godmothers According to Russian custom the Emperor and Empress were not present at the baptism but directly after the ceremony the Emperor went to the church Both he and the Empress always confessed to feeling very nervous on these occasions for fear that the Princess might slip or that Father Yanishev who was very old might drop the baby in the font br Hemophilia br Tsarina Alexandra passed along hemophilia to her only son Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich pictured here in 1906 Courtesy Beinecke Library br He had inherited hemophilia from his mother Alexandra a condition which could be traced back to her maternal grandmother Queen Victoria In 2009 genetic analysis determined specifically that he suffered from hemophilia B His hemophilia led to controversy as it led to gossip that his mother was having an affair with the Russian starets Grigori Rasputin Rasputin claimed to be able to heal Alexei when he was on the brink of death after spells of hemophilia related complications There are various explanations for Rasputin s ability such as that Rasputin hypnotized Alexei administered herbs to him or that his advice to the Tsarina not to let the doctors bother Alexei too much aided the boy s healing Others believe he truly possessed a supernatural healing ability or that his prayers to God saved the boy Alexei and his sisters were taught to view Rasputin as Our Friend and to exchange confidences with him Alexei was well aware that he might not live to adulthood When he was ten his older sister Olga found him lying on his back looking at the clouds and asked him what he was doing I like to think and wonder Alexei replied Olga asked him what he liked to think about Oh so many things the boy responded I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it br Childhood br Alexei was the center of this united family the focus of all its hopes and affections wrote his tutor Pierre Gilliard His sisters worshipped him He was his parents pride and joy When he was well the palace was transformed Everyone and everything in it seemed bathed in sunshine The boy bore a striking resemblance to his mother wrote his tutor Gilliard He was tall for his age with a long finely chiseled face delicate features auburn hair with a coppery glint and large grey blue eyes like his mother Though intelligent and affectionate his education was frequently interrupted by bouts of haemophilia and he was spoiled because his parents couldn t bear to discipline him His parents appointed two sailors from the Imperial Navy Nagorny and Derevenko to serve as nannies and to follow him about so he would not hurt himself He was prohibited from riding a bicycle or playing too roughly Because his blood didn t clot properly any bump or bruise could kill him Despite the restrictions on his activity Alexei was by nature active and mischievous and had simple tastes He refused to speak anything but Russian and enjoyed wearing Russian costume As a small child he occasionally played pranks on guests The most famous of these involved the little prince at a formal dinner party ducking underneath the table removing the shoe of a female guest and showing it to his father Nicholas sternly told his boy to put the trophy back Alexei did so but not before having placed a large ripe strawberry into the toe of the shoe For several weeks afterwards the Tsarevich was not allowed to make an appearance at state dinners br Tsarevich in a sailor uniform br Tsarevich Alexei by Sergey Egornov br Alexei made fun of the stocky Derevenko one of the sailors who cared for him and taunted him for his inability to keep up with the more nimble Alexei Look at Fatty run he would yell during public processions Sometimes he greeted people who bowed to him by hitting them in the face and giving them a bloody nose Parents told Alexei s victims that he was a mischievous child At age seven his behavior at a family dinner embarrassed his parents The spoiled Alexei teased others at the table refused to sit up in his chair wouldn t eat his food and licked his plate His father turned his head and tried to ignore Alexei s behavior His mother rebuked his older sister Olga for not controlling him Her expectation was unreasonable said Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia a distant cousin of the imperial family Olga cannot deal with him he wrote in his diary on 18 March 1912 br His tutor Pierre Gilliard argued with Alexei s parents eventually convincing them that greater autonomy would help the child develop better self control A growing Alexei took advantage of his unaccustomed freedom and began to outgrow some of his earlier foibles Courtiers reported that his illness also made him sensitive to the hurts of others During World War I he lived with his father at army headquarters in Mogilev for long stretches of time and observed military life In December 1916 head of the British military at Stavka Major General Sir John Hanbury Williams received word of the death of his son in action with the British army in France Tsar Nicholas sent twelve year old Alexei to sit with the grieving father Papa told me to come sit with you as he thought you might feel lonely tonight Alexei told the general Alexei like all the Romanov men grew up wearing sailor uniforms and playing at war from the time he was a toddler His father began to prepare him for his future role as Tsar by inviting Alexei to sit in on long meetings with government ministers br Tsarevich Alexei was one of the first Boy Scouts in Russia br Tsarevich Alexei had a special bond with his sister Anastasia who was only three years older br The Tsar s ADC Colonel Mordinov remembered Alexei br He had what we Russians usually call a golden heart He easily felt an attachment to people he liked them and tried to do his best to help them especially when it seemed to him that someone was unjustly hurt His love like that of his parents was based mainly on pity Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich was an awfully lazy but very capable boy I think he was lazy precisely because he was capable he easily grasped everything he was thoughtful and keen beyond his years Despite his good nature and compassion he undoubtedly promised to possess a firm and independent character in the future br Stavka br Alexei Romanov around 1914 1917 in his army uniform br During the world war Alexei joined his father at Stavka when his father became the Commander and chief of the Russian Army Alexei seemed to like military life very much and became very playful and energetic In one of his father s notes to his mother he said Have come in from the garden with wet sleeves and boots as Alexei Sprayed us at the fountain It is his favorite gamepeals of laughter ring out I keep an I in order to see that things do not go to far Alexei even ate the soldiers black bread and even refused when he was offered a meal that he would eat in his palace saying t s not what soldiers eat And in 1916 was given the title of lance Corporal which he was very proud of Alexei s favorite were the foreigners of Belgium Britain France Japan Italy and Serbia and in favor adopted him as their Mascot Hanbury Williams whom Alexei liked wrote As time went on and his shyness wore off he treated us like old friends and had always some bit fun with us With me it was to make sure that each button on my coat was properly fastened a habit which naturally made me take great care to have one or two unbuttoned in which case he used to at once to stop and tell me that I was ntidy again give a sigh at my lack of attention to these details and stop and carefully button me up again br Imprisonment of the royal family br Former tsar Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexei chop wood in captivity at Tobolsk during the winter of 1917 Courtesy Beinecke Library br The royal family was arrested following the Russian Revolution of 1917 When he was in captivity at Tobolsk Alexei complained in his diary about how bored he was and begged God to have mercy upon him He was permitted to play occasionally with Kolya the son of one of his doctors and with a kitchen boy named Leonid Sednev As he became older Alexei seemed to tempt fate and injure himself on purpose While in Siberia he rode a sled down the stairs of the prison house and injured himself in the groin The hemorrhage was very bad and he was so ill that he could not be moved immediately when the Bolsheviks moved his parents and older sister Maria to Yekaterinburg in April 1918 Alexei and his three other sisters joined the rest of the family weeks later He was confined to a wheelchair for the remaining weeks of his life br Death br Main article Shooting of the Romanov family br Tsarevich Alexei left and Grand Duchess Olga right aboard a ship that took them to Yekaterinburg in May 1918 This is the last known photo of Alexei and Olga br He was two weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday when he was murdered on 17 July 1918 in the cellar room of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg The assassination was carried out by forces of the Bolshevik secret police under Yakov Yurovsky According to one account of the murder the family was told to get up and get dressed in the middle of the night because they were going to be moved Nicholas II carried Alexei to the cellar room His mother asked for chairs to be brought so that she and Alexei could sit down When the family and their servants were settled Yurovsky announced that they were to be executed The firing squad first killed Nicholas the Tsarina and the two male servants Alexei remained sitting in the chair terrified before the assassins turned on him and shot at him repeatedly The boy remained alive and the killers tried to stab him multiple times with bayonets Nothing seemed to work wrote Yurovsky later Though injured he continued to live Unbeknownst to the killing squad the Tsarevich s torso was protected by a shirt wrapped in precious gems that he wore beneath his tunic Finally Yurovsky fired two shots into the boy s head and he fell silent Rumors of Alexei s survival began to circulate when the bodies of his family and the royal servants were located Alexei s was missing along with that of one of his sisters generally thought to be Maria or Anastasia As a result of this there have been people who have pretended to be the Tsarevich these people are Alexei Poutziato Joseph Veres Heino Tammet Michael Goleniewski and Vassili Filatov However scientists considered it extremely unlikely that he escaped death due to his lifelong hemophilia The missing bodies were said to have been cremated though scientists believe it would have been impossible to completely cremate the bodies given the short amount of time and the materials the killing squad had to work with Numerous searches of the forest surrounding Yekaterinburg up until 2007 failed to turn up the cremation site or the remains of Alexei and his sister br 2007 remains found and 2008 identification of remains br On 23 August 2007 a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two burned partial skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg that appeared to match the site described in Yurovsky s memoirs The archaeologists said the’)

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