That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.

" I shall bring back the old people ..." Alexei is reported to have told her,

* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( ) ( – ) was a Russian Orthodox Christian and mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their only son, Alexei.

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alexei Luthor is killed by Brainiac, and is subsequently erased from history with the rest of the DC multiverse.

* 1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.

* 1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.

* October 14 – 15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union ; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.

The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov ( Harrison Ford ), aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin ( Liam Neeson ).

Alexei is soon diagnosed with hemophilia.

She knows Alexei ’ s hemophilia was inherited from her, and is racked with guilt.

Nicholas makes a long return to Tsarskoe Selo, but is forced to abdicate in his train at Mogilev, not only for himself but for Alexei, who is furious when he hears this, and becomes withdrawn, believing that the family will soon perish.

The Russian Civil War starts very soon afterwards, and the family is transferred to the grim Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, under harsher conditions, and into the keeping of the cold-blooded and unfeeling Yakov Yurovsky ( Alan Webb ) ( whom Alexei immediately pegs as an evil man ).

Nagorny is taken away and shot, leaving Alexei even more embittered and withdrawn than he was before.

Only Alexei remains aloof, sensing what is about to happen.

He was buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans ; his gray marble crypt is topped by a figure of Gabriel, the trumpeter-angel, sculpted in 1997 by Russian-born sculptor Alexei Kazantsev.

Glassboro is home to Rowan University, founded in 1923 and formerly known as Glassboro State College, which was the site of the Glassboro Summit Conference in 1967 between U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin.

An example of such incorporation by Heinlein is given by Alexei and Cory Panshin from the first few paragraphs of Heinlein ’ s short novel ‘ If This Goes On —’ ( 1940 ).

Alexei David Sayle ( born 7 August 1952 ) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and author.

* Alexei Shulgin is well known for this 386DX performance group, but is also credited with early software art-inspired creations.

Indeed, modern productions of Shakespeare's plays often reflect the world in which they are performed as much as the world for which they were written: and the Moscow theatre scene in 1994 provided an example, when two very different productions of the play ( those by Sergei Zhonovach and Alexei Borodin ), very different from one another in their style and outlook, were both reflections on the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Fellow cosmonaut Alexei Leonov described him as "… very serious.

In Russia, Alexei Karayev directed I Can Hear You in 1992, a 19-minute paint-on-glass-animated film which is based on the Russian translation of Seuss's poetry but features a very different humpy visual style.

Alexei Fyodorovich began violin lessons at a very young age and performed regularly in concerts given at his home: for instance, at 9 he was the soloist in a performance of a violin concerto by Viotti.

Alexei Panshin said that the story "... is a mistake, a sloppy, sentimental fantasy that I suspect was written at the very beginning of Heinlein's career and then went without a buyer until 1957 ".

Poets like Genrikh Sapgir, Alexei Khvostenko, Anri Volokhonsky, Lev Rubinstein, Dmitri Prigov, Timur Kibirov, Eduard Limonov were certainly familiar with the OBERIU writers through " samizdat " publications circulating in the underground art scene, and their writing reflects that knowledge, though in very different ways for all of them.

" The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.

Tatiana went that evening to Yurovsky's office, for what was to be the last time, to ask for the return of the kitchen boy who kept Alexei amused during the long hours of captivity.

Pierre Gilliard recalled his last sight of the children at Yekaterinburg: " The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.

When the gunman returned, Dr Botkin was shot and the Tsarevich Alexei was killed, one gunman repeatedly trying to shoot or stab the boy in the torso.

In order to hide the fact that a mutant slaughtered several members of Purity, an anti-mutant movement, Alexei Vazhin orders hitwoman Sashenka Popova to kill the boy, and pays hush money to the Lauzieres to cover up the truth of the incident.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

The young Alexei was brought up by his mother, who fostered an atmosphere of disdain towards Peter the Great, Alexei's father.

From the ages of 6 to 9, Alexei was educated by his tutor Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother by Peter the Great to the Suzdal Intercession Convent, Alexei was confined to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.

Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.

A horrible reign of terror ensued, in the course of which the ex-tsaritsa Eudoxia was dragged from her monastery and publicly tried for alleged adultery, while all who had in any way befriended Alexei were impaled, broken on the wheel and otherwise lingeringly done to death.

It was not publicly known in 1904 that Alexei had haemophilia, a disease that was widespread among European royalty descended from the British Queen Victoria, who was Alexei's great-grandmother.

Mikhail was succeeded by his only son Alexei, who steered the country quietly through numerous troubles.

His only son to survive into adulthood Alexei, who did not support Peter's modernization of Russia, had previously been arrested and died in prison shortly thereafter.

Thus Alexei would have been the only one who could renounce the crown, Michael could not abdicate, and the crown would still be in the Romanov name.

Later, an American scientist concluded from dental, vertebral, and other remnants that it was Anastasia and Alexei who were missing.

However, recent research shows that all of the Romanovs, including Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Anastasia who had been thought to have escaped the Bolshevik attack, were killed.

Many attribute its popularity to Elizabeth ’ s relationship with Alexei Razumovsky, a Ukrainian Cossack and the supposed husband of the Empress, who reportedly relished music.

In early 1967, Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin sent Nasser a warning through Sadat, who was visiting Moscow, that Israel was about to carry out a large-scale assault against Syria.

Yashin ’ s club team-mate, rival and mentor was Alexei ‘ Tiger ’ Khomich, the keeper of the Soviet national team, who had become famous for his role in Dynamo Moscow ’ s British tour.

Milbury also remade the defensive corps, replacing departed free agents Adrian Aucoin, Roman Hamrlik and Jonsson, who left the NHL to play in his native Sweden, with Alexei Zhitnik, Brad Lukowich and Brent Sopel.

During the course of the season, serious injuries suffered by both Roenick ( broken jaw ) and Primeau ( concussion ) in February forced the Flyers to trade for Chicago's Alexei Zhamnov, who filled in well and kept the Flyers afloat.

Tatiana, like all her family, doted on the long-awaited heir Tsarevich Alexei, or " Baby ," who suffered frequent attacks of haemophilia and nearly died several times.

The remaining children remained behind in Tobolsk because Alexei, who had suffered another attack of haemophilia, could not be moved.

It was Tatiana who persuaded her mother to " stop tormenting herself " and make a decision to go with her father and leave Alexei behind.

Alexandra, who had requested chairs for herself and Alexei, sat to her son's left.

With the Cup win, Russians Alexei Gusarov and Valeri Kamensky and Swede Peter Forsberg became members of the Triple Gold Club, the exclusive group of ice hockey players who have won Olympic gold, World Championship gold, and the Stanley Cup.