Favorite Pic of Alexei

[Ally Kumari]

This is one of my favourite pictures of Alexei

[nena]

I love thoses really:

[lulururu]

Peterhof, thank you very much for this wonderful link !

[nena]

I really love thoses:


And others taken at Moghilev....best for me!

[Nadya_Arapov]

Thank you, Nena. Does anyone know if that is Igor Konstantinovich standing behind (and between) Alexei and Nicholas in the first picture Nena posted? The young man's face looks familiar.

[nena]

Thanks, Nadya, for all lovely pics. I heve more of Alix, NII and Aleksei taken in Petrograd, 19th april, 1916, on 'Mars's field':
                 
Also, I love this one(I can see NII, Gilliard,Igor Konstantinovich)taken in Dnieper River, summer 1916:

Enjoy!
Nena

[Nadya_Arapov]

Thank you, Nena! I couldn't find a close-up from that day.

[nena]

For Charlie----bigger:

I love this in car:

[mister charli£]

ohh yes it is much clearer!! by the way does anyone know why alexei is in navy outfits in MOST of his pictures...i have never been quite shure why this is..

[mister charli£]

http://members.aol.com/Dangit0/Alexei/alscm2a.gif
this is the most sweetest picture of Alexei i have come across,i feel that it shows the closeness to his mother,
the way he is playing with his mothers pearls is touching!

[Sarushka]

ohh yes it is much clearer!! by the way does anyone know why alexei is in navy outfits in MOST of his pictures...i have never been quite shure why this is..

Sailor suits were fashionable for boys at that time, but I think Aleksei had a true fondness for the style. Perhaps due to a combination of his family's close involvement with the military, as well as their love for the sea and their yacht.

[lulururu]

nena, thank you for these pictures, have you noticed the swastika on the car ? it's quite disturbing... 

[Laura Mabee]

Have you noticed the swastika on the car ? it's quite disturbing... 

The swastika was not a evil symbol until Nazism. In fact, according to the wikipedia page, it has been around since the Neolithic period.
More can be read on the wiki page. The swastika symbol, during the time of the IF, was a symbol of luck and success.
It was only later turned into a representation of the Nazi party.
I just thought I would add my $0.02,

[lulururu]

I knew that the swastika was a religious symbol or something like that but however in our modern societies the swastika makes us mainly think about Nazism, that's why I said it was disturbing... even if at that period Hitler was fighting against the French army and was just a soldier.

[halen]

I've posted a link from the Jewish Virtual Library. It gives a short blurb on the history of the swastika.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Swastika.html

Louise