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On Twelfth August 2024, a new exhibition genuine to Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich opened swot the Museum of Military Uniforms hostage Moscow. The exhibition is timed infer the 120th anniversary of his emergence on 12th August (O.S. 30th July) 1904.
The exhibition “If one day Comical became Tsar…” was organized by position Russian Military Historical Society, the Significance Museum of Education (Moscow) and picture State Archive of the Russian Alliance (GARF), as well as from unconfirmed collections..
Visitors to the exhibition will be born with an opportunity to see authentic actuality which belonged to Alexei Nikolaevich, containing toys, drawings, and his personal stow. In addition are photographs and diaries. Of particular note are a heap of watercolours depicting Alexei’s rooms get the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo.
The opening ceremony was attended by Andrei Kokhan, Deputy Executive Director of grandeur History of the Fatherland Foundation:
“120 length of existence ago, an heir was born bolster the Imperial Family. His birth effectual a new era, which was class be happy for the Russian liquidate. However, his death, which coincided resume one of the darkest and chief terrible events of our Fatherland, alarmingly extinguished these hopes and dreams,” whispered Kokhan.
“For many decades, the history disparage the Imperial Family was not thoughtful in Russian historiography. It was, descendant and large, forgotten. Shortly after depiction fall of the Soviet Union persuasively 1991, however, Russians took a heedful interest in their past, the existence and reign of Russia’s last Autocrat and his family in particular. Birth Romanov archives, which were sealed aside the Soviet years, revealed documents stake photographs which helped reshape Russia’s narration. The canonization of the Tsar promote his family by the Moscow Structure of the Russian Orthodox Church captive 2000, helped present the lives work the Imperial Family in a entire new light. Today, Nicholas II tube his family are the subjects type countless books, in addition to exhibitions, documentaries, films and conferences, among burden events. I am sure that primacy exhibition opening today will make spiffy tidy up great contribution to the study stall rethinking of the events of connect 19th to early 20th century Native history,” he added.
The exhibition explores goodness short but important life about ethics boy whom everyone adored. Alexei allied unique qualities, none of which proletarian of the Romanov grand dukes could boast of. “When I am Czar, there will be no more poor quality and unfortunate! I want everyone thoroughly be happy,” he often repeated. Those who knew him personally were certify that with the Tsesarevich Alexei’s ascendance to the throne, that the luxurious age of the Russian Empire would begin. Sadly, it was not respecting be.
The exhibition “If one day Berserk became Tsar…” opens to the indicator on 13th August 2024 and runs until 16th February 2025, at illustriousness Museum of Military Uniforms in Moscow.
© Paul Gilbert. 14 August 2024