Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

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 in Yekaterinburg. Rumours of his survival fed impostors for decades until his remains and those of one sister were found in a secondary grave in 2007.