Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

Last Russian tsesarevich and heir apparent of the Russian Empire (1904–1918); youngest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)

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Lived 1904–1918, aged 14

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1904–1918
Aged 14
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House of Romanov
1992

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Updated 2026-06-08

The heir to the Romanov throne died at thirteen, shot in a Yekaterinburg cellar with his family when the Civil War made keeping them alive inconvenient. He lived his brief life with haemophilia, which brought Rasputin into the palace and helped unravel an empire.

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Born 12 August 1904, Alexei Nikolaevich was the only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, the long-awaited boy who arrived with haemophilia. His parents turned to the peasant faith healer Grigori Rasputin to treat the bleeds, a decision that fed the palace's growing isolation. After the February Revolution of 1917, the Romanovs were exiled to Tobolsk, Siberia. Plans for a trial dissolved as the Civil War intensified and White Army forces closed in. On 17 July 1918, the Ural Regional Soviet ordered the execution of Alexei, his parents, his sisters, and four retainers in a basement…

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