Remembering Alexei Romanov | by Sophie Buxhoeveden
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2022
- On August 12th, 1904, the longed-for son, the heir Alexei, was born. Those who knew how the Empress had prayed and waited for this crowning happiness in her married life, and who understood the importance of direct succession in a country like Russia, can realise what this meant to her.
The boy was big and healthy, and early gave promise of great good looks. No signs of the hemophilia that afterwards developed in him were noticeable at the outset. Notwithstanding the serious atmosphere caused by the war, the baby's advent gave unmitigated joy to the parents. "My sunbeam," the Empress used to call her boy.
The birth of the Tsarevich Alexei gave the Empress popularity. The criticism that had been heard of her too-great domesticity was heard no more. The Empress had done her duty to the country, and the knowledge of this gave her greater self-confidence.
Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden was a Baltic German Lady-in-waiting, in service to Empress Alexandra of Russia. She was the author of three memoirs about the imperial family and about her own escape from Russia. This video consists of her memories of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov.
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It's a crying shame his and his sister's remains aren't still, reunited with those of his family. It's high time this is addressed. May they rest in peace.
What a pity that Alexei didn't get to play his part as I think he would have a great Tzar He seamed to be full of empathy and he seam interested in his people and their lives. We can only wonder. To me he was a special child from what I read and saw. God bless the family RIP 🙏
What happened to them is the karma of forner czars and uncles..
@@parkrein1237along with the gross stupidity of Nicholas and Alexandra's blatant misrule.
What a lot of people don;t know is that Nicholas II went to the Duma to attempt to change Tsar Alexei’s previous ruling about women (due to his mother Catherine the Great). Nicholas II KNEW Alexeis wouldn’t survive and wanted to name Olga his successor who would have made an EXCELLENT Tsaritsa (female empress title) - and Nicholas II - but it is said that Alexandra would not have a bar of it for “baby’s sake”…..MAYBE if Nicholas had abdicated in favour of Olga Nickolavena who was EXTREMELY popular (and actually knew what about politics and had her finger on the pulse of the people). In fact, even in her diary she stated that she knew that Rasputin HAD TO DIE but the way it was done was wrong (and I do tend to agree with that). Anyway if Olga was Tsaritsa I tend to think that MAYBE the Romanovs would still be a Constitutional Monarchy today.
@@kerrijohnstone7588 I hate the Romanovs ever since what Empress Elizabeth did to Ivan the sixth.
*I wish that the people are happy as I am.*
-Alexei Tsarevich Romanov
Wonderful video very emotional ❤️🙏🙏👍👍❤️
What a gorgeous little boy. So sad that he and his family met such a tragic end. God bless them all.
Czarevich Alexei had the potential to be a great leader. Czar Nicholas II & The Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna raised him well. His Father took him to work, he did boot camp , to Church ceremonies , and other stately affairs. He was close to his Mother & sisters & clearly showed love & respect for them. He was educated & spoke several languages. He was a normal boy who did not let his disability limited him ( he wanted so badly to jump into the water from the pier). I love seeing videos of Alexei being playful, and being respectful when he is with the Czar on his duties. Also, to hear about his last letter to his friend & to hear how his friend adored & misses him dearly proves how loving was the Czarevich. My daughter is now 20, but it was her who introduce me to the Romanovs when she was in 6th grade. I think she had a crush on Alexei, but knew it was silly as “he would be 100 years old.” But, she loved his sisters too. My son is 20, and the Czarevich reminds me how sweet, smart & playful a little boy can be. But also, if raised well, he would grow up to be a fine gentleman.
The baroness escaped in 1918 on a ship from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast of Russia. She then made her way to Denmark. Later she moved to England.
Contrary to what the Baroness is quoted as saying, Tsarevich Alexei has his first hemophiliac incident when his umbilical cord was cut and he bled more profusely than normal. This is online in Wikipedia and there are also mentions in books about the family that he had episodes as a baby.
This is shown in a six part Netflix series.
The umbilical cord doesn't bleed.
This is the general understanding of how the diagnosis of Hemophilia was discovered....!
@@lauraswann5543 the navel does and it bled profusely.
Beautiful insights into Alexei’s life. If world events were different, I feel he would have been a great man on the stage of history! Perhaps Russia would have been a very different place in the 20th century. His suffering and kind heart definitely qualifies him for sainthood! I encourage everyone to buy this wonderful book!
If only the Russian Revolution didn’t happen and that Russia remained a monarchy and a empire instead of being ruled by the soviets.
I saw the video of this boy playing with other kids… he punched other kid in face and the other kids can’t fight back. What kind of education his parents gave to him? Just because he was born from so called Royal Family so he could do whatever he wants to other kids? The Russian RF was incredibly selfish at that time, the majority are so poor, and they just lived in their own world.
@@Helena-nj5eh So, you’re going to condemn a sick child, who was brutally murdered by communist savages and was acting like a typical kid over 104 years later? That is sick. I saw the clip and Alexei should have been called out about that, and how do you know he wasn’t? Alexei suffered physical pain for his entire life and didn’t deserve the suffering he endured.
@@Modeltnick this RF is one of the most selfish family in the history… they never care poor Russian who died on the streets while they enjoy their life in the palace. History never lie and everything happened for the reasons…. You don’t need manipulate me just because I state the truth. Read the history and the real Russian life back then they were very sad. If you want to survive as a ruler, pls making sure taking care of people.
If Nicholas didn't lose power Alexei would have had the royal family fall. This royal family had no chance in surviving past Alexei. Alexei wasn't educated to run a country just like his father. He was a brat and treated people poorly and got away with anything. He wasn't being raise properly and that was terrifying to know he was a future tsar. He wouldn't have been better. Russia would still have been poorly off or even worse than when they were living under Nicholas. Nicholas was clueless at running a country and Alexei wouldn't have been any better. This family was clueless to realities of Russia. Nicholas ruined his family.
Poor boy. Thank you for this insight and well researched video.
He and his family should’ve survived and regain their rights to rule the Russian Empire and regain all of its territory so that it can become a much better place.
@@doctorfuntime1709 I definitely agree with you. Russia and the russians could never escape the tsar syndrome.
Thank you for sharing this ...This video can bring the tears to the eyes of the toughest of us...Destiny can be a very crule sometimes and crushes and wings and bodies of so many beautiful a 🦋
@@doctorfuntime1709 there was no going back once the empire came crashing down.
@@savagedarksider5934 they escaped Tsardom via revolution in 1917.
Sophie Buxhoeveden is another great chronicler of the family and those times. Alexei's ability , when he was feeling well, to throw himself joyfully into life has always amazed me. He suffered greatly, but lived as fully as possible as a child afflicted with his disease. Bless him.
Well George sent a ship to rescue the Greek royal family in 1920. So he seemed to have learned a lesson . They say he was afraid of the public's response if the Romanovs came to the UK and so withdrew his offer of asylum. These days I'm thinking it was the King's banker that said no. You can't take the Tsar 's funds if he survives.
@Martha Thacker a ship was sent but the Romaonff children were very I'll with measles and couldn't be moved after that it was too late. Remember the Czar done what was asked of him he relinquished his titles and relinquished on behalf of his son too,so at that stage no one would have expected them all to be executed there was no reason for it except spite
@@blessOTMA it was impossible to rescue Nicholas II and his family. They were trapped. That is why Kerensky sent them to the east. Nicholas was advised to send his wife and children to the Crimea in January 1917. He stupidly refused and sealed their fate.
@@marthathacker7365 NIcholas was a bloody tyrant and autocrat. Bloody Sunday was just one such incident where he believed violence was the best way to govern Russia.
@@laurielovett8849 no ship was sent to Russia. It was impossible to get the Romanovs in the north of Russia out.
This by far the best produced video about Alexei & his loving, devoted family.
It is wonderful to get true rememberences from someone who was there & knew the family.
What a wonderful Czar he could have been
The memories are flawed.
July 17 was the anniversary of the entry into Heaven of the unfortunate Tsarevich.
64 years later, along with his parents and sisters, he was canonized by the Orthodox Church.
He now watches over Holy Russia.
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HIs remains are still not buried. He watches over noone as he is very dead indeed.
Nicholas loved his family so much he wouldn't consent to allow the Tzar-ship to pass to Alexei when he stepped down ❤️
So sad what horrors happened to this beautiful family. I wonder how Russia would be today had they lived.
They didn't live. Speculation is a waste of time.
@@davidlogan4329it's not a waste of time.
Цесаревич и Великий Князь Алексей Николаевич Романов-Гольштейн-Готторп!!! 😎👍
Extraordinarily touching... ☦
Thank you so much for this video. God Bless you. ☦️
He was just a boy. A young, handsome boy, who died before his time. I think he had the makings of a great Tsar. It’s a shame that he never got the chance.
He never got the chance to grow older as his father stupidly refused to send him, his mother and his sisters to the Crimea in January 1919 as advised. They could have left Russia from there easily. Once the revolution broke out it was impossible to escape. The family was trapped inside the Alexander Palace. Kerensky sent them to the safety of Tobolsk away from revolutionary St. Petersburg. Later in 1917 the Bolesheviks too power. In July 1918, after being sent from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg, the family were all murdered on 17th July along with remaining servants. His fate could have been easily very different, but with Nicholas as a father he stood no chance.
Alexei was a gorgeous young boy with beautiful curly blonde locks. So sad he suffered from that dreaded haemophilia. His mother's hope he would one day be heir was delusional though. When the family were assassinated Alexei could no longer walk. Do to medical science at the time I doubt he would have made it to adulthood. The Romanovs didn't have to live simply. The dynasties wealth was one of the richest in human history
very beautiful family... 🌹💔🌹💔
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Fascinating insightful video on the Account of Tsarevich Alexei Nikoaevich Romanov remembered by a close family friend
And what remained of the beauty and greatness of The Russian Empire.
Thank you ❤🖤
very beautiful little princ...
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A beautiful family..RIP
they should had made arrangements early so that some their daughters could inherit them. Olga would have made an excellent Russian czarina and czareivig. And let him could be treaten by doctors with calm.
What great souls!!!! Holy Martyrs, the whole family!!!!!!
I'm sure that they hoped Alexei would be the tsar someday. But in that era there was no treatment for hemophilia, and most of the patients died in their twenties. He would probably not have lived to be the tsar.
His kinsman Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria ,was able to produce two children (the last a son posthumously )before his early death from hemophilia....Alexei might have married young and produced an heir....perhaps with Princess Illena of Romania....There are some very cute photos of her smiling and holding on to his arm....All the WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEENS....!
It is incorrect that there were no signs of haemophilia in Alexis. He had bleeding from the navel that was not normal, a clear sign of haemophilia. The Doctors knew very early on he had this inherited disease.
Agreed. He bled after birth when the umbilical cord was cut.
Thank you so much for this. Moving, emotional and stunning x
ALEXEI LIVES!
He bled from his umbilicus at about six weeks old.
Many thanks for sharing this wonderful moving video. God bless the tsarévitch and his FAMILY . 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
The Romanov Royal Martyrs can you do a video on Alexander II.
It would be good to mention Mark Twain's meeting with him! Described in "The Innocents Abroad", Twain''s travel book, now in the public domain. ^^
Beautiful video
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#......какое -- то сходство есть у французского киноактера Жана Морэ с цесаревичем Алексеем.....этот актёр сильно похож на всю династию Романовых.....это , видимо так и есть ....☝😎☝
I have always wondered in a perfect world who would have alexi married? From my research there wasn’t a lot of princesses around his age.
Princess Ileana of Romania is often mentioned....There are some very cute photos of her....about 5....cuddling Alexei aged 9....She seemed IN LOVE with him....!
@@user-ie1kd9of4w they could have married but they would have been young at 20 and 15. No doubt alexi would have felt a lot pressure to marry as soon as he could so at the very worst he dies young but with a son. I think LLena would have been the best match for him
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Sunbeam
Is very nice and important the life for this little and handsome boy way the bad people only accepting the zar is abdicate way kill the family that's so sad
Sometimes when I think really hard about this, it just blows my mind . An entire family, gone .
Many ordinary families perished in Russia under the bloody reign of Nicholas II. Have you ever considered this?
The Romanov Royal Martyrs can you do a video explaining what Peter The Great’s Reign of Russia was really like.
Too young to die...as a teenager.
He looked like his Dad ❤️🥲
Pictures of girls or the boy???
What the hell are you saying
He lives ..
Right ??🤔
Haha, TNO reference
Are there other Royals living today with the disease of Hemophilia ?
None.
why do some people call him alexis
Because that's how he called himself in English.
@@RomanovRoyalMartyrs oh i see. idk much about them yet I've only been looking into this family recently but that does make sense
Here's his signature: instagram.com/p/CgFHiLfKUcx/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
It often happens with translations where it's impossible to exactly reproduce a name. Think of the name Jesus for example. It translates differently across English, Spanish, Hebrew etc 😄
The Romanov Royal Martyrs he would’ve been one of the best rulers of The Russian Empire had if not been for the Russian Revolution.
He didn’t like apple pie
She NEVER COMPLAINED??? Is this woman out of her mind?? Have you seen the notes’ she wrote to those poor daughters who were begging to see her. Example;,from Maria (paraphrased) I di hope you are feeling better and you will be able to join us for tea this afternoon”. The Hypochondriac “Be a wee Good girl,mamma’s heart is 2 today”. Pain scale 1-3 3 being 3 the worst. Those girls almost NEVER saw their mother because “various” illnesses. Every her own doctors said the “Illnesses’ were more psychological than physical,that in reality the only REAL illness she DID have was scatica. Those poor daughters. NEVER complains. She never STOPPED complaining.
Sophie says Alexis was healthy but fails to point out his bleeding from the navel as a baby, a sure sign of haemophilia plus his bruising easily. The Empress also never had popularity. Alexis also never showed any signs of being exceptionally bright. He never lived long enough to achieve much academically. One of the major reasons why Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna did not want Nicholas to marry Alix was that they were only too aware of haemophila running in the Hesse-Darmstadt family. Alix's brother Frittie had died from the disease. They also found their goddaughter rather peculiar having known of her from a very early age. There was nothing 'mild' about the haemophilia suffered by Alexis. The Doctors made it quite clear there was nothing they could do to help him apart from recommending he avoid situations where he could injure himself. That is why Nagorny and Derevenko were appointed as sailor 'nurses' to keep a constant eye on him. Of course Alexandra was completely to blame for passing on as a carrier haemophilia to her son. All her daughters could have been carriers as well just as her sister Irene was. Nobody knows about Elizabeth as she never had children. May died too young to know. The older sister Victoria Alberta was not a carrier. Alix's first cousin Victoria Eugenia was a carrier along with her other cousin Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone. Alexandra's Uncle Leopold, Duke of Albany was a haemophiliac and Queen Victoria was a carrier. Alexandra was highly delusional and diagnosed as mentally ill in 1910 by a top German physician. Of course Alexandra dressed extravagantly. One look at the clothes of hers that have survived shows this. She never truly cared or understood the great sufferings faced by the majority of the Russian people. She spent monies all too easily and did nothing to stop waste at the Russian court. She had along with Nicholas a ridiculous new village built at Tsarskoe Selo plus the Livadia Palace, both totally unnecessary. Alexandra also quickly lost her youthful beauty and looked old beyond her years very early on. Alexandra also had many new pieces of jewellery created from expensive tiaras to smaller items. Her tiaras were staggeringly expensive. She did not favour wearing existing jewellery. Bad luck did not follow Nicholas and Alexandra. It was their repeated stupid mistakes that brought the once great dynasty crashing down. They never listened to anyone in their family at home and abroad or to leading Russian statesmen. They never prepared any reforms. The entire progrram is deeply flawed.
The Tsar and Tsarina should have listened to Rasputan.
Alexai was Leo ♌ Dragon 🐲. He would have had lovers, many.
@Martha Thacker,
All the women he pleasured during orgies may have something else to say.
When it came to Alexei, The Tsarina would have used the devil no matter how filthy.
Alexei was the only reason Rasputan was called to their Palace.
Its because they listened to Rasputin caused all their trouble, the tzarina considered him a by man with great powers, because if he prayed for alexi,HD always seemed to recover much quicker, KT was just luck.suppose you can't blame the ,Empress , in times of great illness peke clutch at straws,particularly when a child is involved
That was a terrible time for women - never expected to be intelligent & use that, just be tokens for the men.
You're always supposed to be ungrateful? I guess selfishness is a essential part of female genetics. Next time you brag about women oppressed, search "why women outnumber men in Eastern Europe". Over 65% of Russia's male population died in one century so that the lazy women could live.
Women are not supposed to be as intelligent as men, smart women have genetic mutation and weird biologics, because God created men strong and wise in governing and women to be kind and a good mother. Everyone has a different role, don't deny yours and don't steal someone else's.
At least this woman as not appy -sycophant like Anya
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