The tsarevich dies in the fortress
1718 · Event
Peter's son Alexei — pious, passive, everything his father despised — flees abroad, is lured home with a pardon, and dies in the Peter and Paul Fortress days after being condemned to death, broken by interrogation under the knout that his father attended. The reformer who remade a state consumed his own heir; the succession crisis shadows Russia for a century.
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