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The tragic fate of Alexei, the son of Nicholas II, cannot fail to touch anyone.
Born in 1904, he was brutally killed with the rest of his family in 1918 just because he was his father’s heir. George Hawkins has charted his short life from the diaries and letters of those closest to him, as well as Alexei’s own diary. They show Alexei as active, intelligent, fascinated with military life and with a strong sense of humour, despite the haemophilia that blighted his life.
They show normal palace life and then the sheer boredom of captivity after the revolution. Many…
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