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Lesser coat of arms of the younger sons of the emperor of Russia. Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович; 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1850 in St. Petersburg – 14 November 1908 in Paris) was the fifth child and the fourth son of Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
Alexei Romanov may refer to: Alexis of Russia, Tsar of Russia from 1645 - 1676, son of Tsar Michael of Russia; Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, heir to the throne of Russia, son of Tsar Nicholas II; Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, son and heir of Peter the Great; Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, son of Tsar Alexander II
Alexei as an infant in 1904 Alexei (right) with his sailor nanny Andrei Derevenko aboard the Imperial yacht Standart in 1908. Alexei was born on 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1904 in Peterhof Palace, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire. He was the youngest of five children of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
The Crown Prince Alexei and one Romanov daughter were not accounted for, fueling the persistent legend that Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, had survived the execution of her family. Of the several "Anastasias" that surfaced in Europe in the decade after the Russian Revolution, Anna Anderson, who died in the United States in 1984, was ...
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович, romanized: Mikhail Aleksandrovich; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1878 – 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II.
Svetlana was constructed to provide Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanov with a royal yacht. As the younger brother of Tsar Alexander III and uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duke Alexei was commander-in-chief of the Imperial Russian Navy.
The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before their 1917 execution at the hands of Lenin. ... Pictures show Tsar Nicholas II, wife Alexandra, son Alexei, and daughters ...
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.