Aleksei's Formal pictures

The saluting image has obviously been reversed.  The writing is backwards, and they'd never have photographed him saluting with his left hand.  Great pictures.  At age two he looked just like Shirley Temple!

I must be overlooking the photo you mean. Unless you're thinking of this one? But in that one, neither the German nor the Russian text is backwards, and he's only adjusting his hat, not saluting.

No, the fourth one in Nena's post, in which he appears in uniform.

Good point, CorisCapnSkip!

Thanks for the one of the 1907 shoot. That was the one we were looking for a few posts back.

You're very welcome! Here are two more:

The First one, 1915, the second, 1912.
Anymore are welcome!

Tsar and Tsarevich, 1906:

We missed to psted this:

I think I've never seen the 1906 image, thank you !

Alexej 1910

I still don't get why boys wore dresses when they were little. Can anyone explain?

Well, for one thing, much easier to change their diapers!

Back then, people were scared of evil spirits. So in order to confuse this so called evil spirits, they dressed their baby boys in dresses. So the evil spirits will be confused if it's a boy or a girl!

was this because boys were typically valued more than little girls? (just curious)