Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

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Alexei Nikolaevich (Russian: Алексей Николаевич, romanized: Aleksey Nikolayevich; 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1904 – 17 July 1918) was the last Russian tsesarevich (heir apparent). He was the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with haemophilia, which his parents tried treating with the methods of peasant faith healer Grigori Rasputin. After the February Revolution of 1917, the Romanovs were sent into internal exile in Tobolsk, Siberia. After the October Revolution, the family was initially to be tried in a court of law, before the intensification of the Russian Civil War made execution increasingly favourable in the eyes of the Soviet government. With White Army soldiers rapidly approaching, the Ural Regional Soviet ordered the murder of Alexei, the rest of his family in the Ipatiev house, and four remaining retainers on 17 July 1918. Rumours persisted for decades that Alexei had escaped his execution, with multiple impostors claiming...

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