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Grand Duke Alexei Petrovich of Russia (28 February 1690 – 26 June 1718) was a Russian Tsarevich. He was born in Moscow, the son of Tsar Peter I and his first wife, Eudoxia Lopukhina. Alexei despised his father and repeatedly thwarted Peter's plans to raise him as successor to the throne, to continue his policies.
26 de jun. de 2020 · Há 302 anos, Alexei Petrovich, o Tsarevich da Rússia, era morto pelo próprio pai. Em uma relação realmente conturbada, o czar Pedro I detestava seu filho e, ao sentir-se traído por ele, foi capaz do impensável
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The terrified tsarevich volunteered to relinquish his claim to the throne, but that wasn't enough to appease his powerful father.
Many monarchs throughout history have killed family members. England’s Henry VIII, for example, beheaded two wives and several cousins.
Cleopatra engineered the murder of two siblings (one of whom was also her husband). And Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, ordered the execution of his half-brother from a Spanish prison.
But even those royals might have been aghast at the actions of Russian czar Peter the Great, who in 1718 had his eldest son tortured to death for allegedly conspiring against him.
Peter I, better known as Peter the Great, is generally credited with bringing Russia into the modern age. During his time as czar, from 1682 until his death in 1725, he implemented a variety of reforms that included revamping the Russian calendar and alphabet and reducing the Orthodox Church’s autonomy. Peter even instituted a tax on beards as part of his efforts to make Russians look and act more like Western Europeans.
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Grão-duque Alexei Petrovich da Rússia (28 de fevereiro de 1690 - 26 de junho de 1718) foi um czarevich russo. Ele nasceu em Moscou, filho do czar Pedro I e sua primeira esposa, Eudoxia Lopukhina. Alexei desprezava seu pai e frustrava repetidamente os planos de Peter de criá-lo como sucessor do trono.
ALEXEI PETROVICH. (1690 – 1718), tsarevich, son of Emperor Peter I of Russia and his first wife Yevdokia Lopukhina. Peter raised Alexei as his heir, making him study a modern curriculum with foreign tutors and taking him to visit battlefields and naval displays to teach him to "love everything that contributes to the glory and honor of the ...
When Alexei wasn’t sick, he led the ordinary life of a royal heir: studying, taking part in official events and sometimes playing. And this boy could be naughty.
The painting Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof was created by the Russian artist Nikolai Ge (1831–1894) and completed in 1871. The painting is stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Inventory 2630).
