Alexei flees to Vienna
1716 · Event
Summoned to join his father, the tsarevich instead flees with his Finnish mistress to his brother-in-law Emperor Charles VI.
On these timelines: Peter the Great's Revolution, Russia & the USSR, Master, The Habsburg Dynasty
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