Aloise "Alexei" Yegorovich Trupp (russian: Алоизий Егорович Трупп, lv, Aloizs Lauris Trūps, i=no; 8 April 1856 – 17 July 1918) was the Latvian head

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in the household of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Trupp was an ethnic Latgalian, born in Rezhitsky Uyezd, in the

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of the

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(now

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, Latvia). He was executed with the Romanov family at

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following the

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. He is buried in the Chapel of Saint Catherine the Martyr within the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral. Together with the royal family, Trupp was canonized as a martyr by the

Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (russian: Ру́сская Правосла́вная Це́рковь Заграни́цей, lit=Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, translit=Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov' Zagranitsey), also called Ru ...

in 1981, even though he was a

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.King, Greg, and Wilson, Penny, ''The Fate of the Romanovs,'' John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp. 65, 495 The Moscow Patriarchate canonized the royal family as Passion Bearers in 2000, but did not canonize Trupp.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trupp, Alexei 20th-century Christian saints 20th-century Roman Catholics 1858 births 1918 deaths Canonised servants of the Romanov household Court of Nicholas II of Russia Executed Latvian people Executed Russian people People executed by Russia by firing squad People from Madona Municipality People from Rezhitsky Uyezd Russian Roman Catholics Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia

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