Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia facts for kids

Tsarevich Alexei by Sergey Egornov.

Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov (12 August 1904 – 17 July 1918) was the heir apparent of Russia during the Russian Revolution. He would have become Tsar Alexei II. He was the youngest of five children and the only son of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna. His sisters were Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia.

He had the disease hemophilia. He inherited the disease from his mother. The disease can be traced back to his great grandmother Queen Victoria. His father gave up the throne in 1917 and his family was exiled and then murdered in Ekaterinburg in 1918. When Alexei was struggling with hemophilia a Russian Orthodox monk named Grigori Rasputin, commonly known as Rasputin, healed Alexei better than any doctor could. This might have led to the family's murder, because they were so fond of Rasputin. Once Rasputin was murdered, Alexei and his family were murdered only two years later.

In 2000, Alexei and his family were made saints by the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 2008 his body was one of those found near the site where the family was murdered. DNA tests proved all 5 of the Tsar's children had been killed.

Images for kids

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  Alexei as an infant in 1904

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  The former palace of Russian emperors in the Polish Białowieża Forest, where Alexei had a particularly grave crisis, early October 1912.

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  Pierre Gilliard and Alexei

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  Nicholas II rows his son on a boat in the Alexander Park (1911).

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  Alexei on horseback in the uniform of the Nijni Novgorod Dragoons. In the background parts of the Alexander Palace can be seen. 1911

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  Portrait of Alexei, dressed in the soldier's coat, cap and shoulder-boards of a corporal

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  Nicholas and Alexei sawing wood in captivity at Tobolsk during the winter of 1917

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  Tsesarevich Alexei in his army uniform with sister Tatiana in 1917.

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  The last known photo of Alexei and sister Olga aboard the steamship Rus that took them to Yekaterinburg in May 1918.

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  The Romanovs visiting a regiment during World War I. From left to right, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsesarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Maria, with Kuban Cossacks

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  Nicholas II, Alexei, Tatiana and Nikita

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  Tsesarevich Alexei Island southeast of Emperor Nicholas II Land in a 1915 map of the Russian Empire.

See also

In Spanish: Alekséi Nikoláyevich Románov para niños