Aloise "Alexei" Yegorovich Trupp (, ; 8 April 1856 – 17 July 1918) was the Latvian head footman in the household of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Trupp was an ethnic Latgalian, born in Rezhitsky Uyezd, in the

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(now Madona Municipality, Latvia). He was murdered with the Romanov family at Ipatiev House in

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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

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in 1981, even though he was a

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. 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 the Red Terror in Soviet Russia

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