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Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, c1860-c1862. Grand Duke Alexei (1850-1908) was the sixth child and fourth son of Tsar Alexander II and his first wife, Maria Alexandrovna. He served in the Russian Navy and was appointed General Admiral in 1883. He oversaw the acquisition on new ships and the modernisation of the Navy's bases, but was dismissed from his command and retired after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk.