Alexei Trupp

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yegorovich and the family name is Trupp.

Aloise "Alexei" Yegorovich Trupp (Russian: Алоизий Егорович Трупп, Latvian: Aloizs Lauris Trūps; 8 April 1856 – 17 July 1918) was the Latvian head footman in the household of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.^[2]

Alexei Trupp
Born	Aloizs Lauris Trūps (1856-04-08)8 April 1856 Kalnagals, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	17 July 1918(1918-07-17) (aged 62) Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Republic
Cause of death	Murder by firing squad
Canonized	1981, in New York by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia[1]

Trupp was an ethnic Latgalian, born in Rezhitsky Uyezd, in the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Madona Municipality, Latvia). He was murdered with the Romanov family at Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg following the Russian Revolution of 1917.^[3] 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 in 1981, even though he was a Roman Catholic.^[4] The Moscow Patriarchate canonized the royal family as Passion Bearers in 2000, but did not canonize Trupp.

See also

• Romanov sainthood