CHAPTER 6
Alexandre Alexeieff*
ALEXANDRE ALEXEIEFF (ALEKSANDR ALEKSANDROVICH Alekseev) was born on 18 April 1901 in Kazan, in Czarist Russia. He was the third and last child of Maria Polidorova, a headmistress, and Aleksandr Alekseev, an officer in the imperial navy. Aleksandr’s brothers’ names were Nikolay and Vladimir. One year later, Aleksandr Alekseev Sr. accepted the post of naval attaché at the Russian embassy in Constantinople (at that time capital of the Ottoman Empire and now known as Istanbul), and his family moved with him to the shores of the Bosphorus. Constantinople was a happy time for the boy, as he enjoyed the best emotional and material conditions that anyone could wish for. It came to a tragic end ...
