[Russian empire]. Tsesarevich Alexey Nikolaevich. 1900s. Photograph. Original imprint. - 17.9x24 cm.

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Alexei Nikolaevich (1904 – 1918) was the youngest child and only son of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. After the February Revolution of 1917, he and his family were sent into internal exile in Tobolsk. He was executed alongside his parents, four sisters, and three retainers during the Russian Civil War by order of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission. The family were canonized as passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.