Alexei Trupp

{{Short description|Head footman to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia}}

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{{Family name hatnote|Yegorovich|Trupp|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

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| image = Aloise (Alexei) Trupp (cropped).jpg

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| birth_name = Aloizs Lauris Trūps

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|04|08|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kalnagals, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|07|17|1856|04|08|df=y}}

| death_place = Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Republic

{{Infobox person | child = yes | death_cause= Murder by firing squad}}

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| canonized_date = 1981

| canonized_place = in New York

| canonized_by = the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia{{Cite book |last1=King |first1=Greg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OJoAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Fate+of+the+Romanovs |title=The Fate of the Romanovs |last2=Wilson |first2=Penny |date=2003-09-12 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-20768-9 |pages=65, 495, 496 |language=en}}

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Aloise "Alexei" Yegorovich Trupp ({{langx|ru|Алоизий Егорович Трупп}}, {{langx|lv|Aloizs Lauris Trūps|i=no}}; 8 April 1856 – 17 July 1918) was the Latvian head footman in the household of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0004838|doi-access = free|title = Mystery Solved: The Identification of the Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis|year = 2009|last1 = Coble|first1 = Michael D.|last2 = Loreille|first2 = Odile M.|last3 = Wadhams|first3 = Mark J.|last4 = Edson|first4 = Suni M.|last5 = Maynard|first5 = Kerry|last6 = Meyer|first6 = Carna E.|last7 = Niederstätter|first7 = Harald|last8 = Berger|first8 = Cordula|last9 = Berger|first9 = Burkhard|last10 = Falsetti|first10 = Anthony B.|last11 = Gill|first11 = Peter|last12 = Parson|first12 = Walther|last13 = Finelli|first13 = Louis N.|journal = PLOS ONE|volume = 4|issue = 3|pages = e4838|pmid = 19277206|pmc = 2652717|bibcode = 2009PLoSO...4.4838C}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/16358029.slaughter-russias-last-tsar-family-100-years/|title=The slaughter of Russia's last tsar and his family 100 years on|website=The National|date=17 July 2018 }} 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.{{Cite book |last1=King |first1=Greg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OJoAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Fate+of+the+Romanovs |title=The Fate of the Romanovs |last2=Wilson |first2=Penny |date=2003-09-12 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-20768-9 |pages=495, 496 |language=en}} The Moscow Patriarchate canonized the royal family as Passion Bearers in 2000, but did not canonize Trupp.