Imperial and royal blood ran through Alexei's life as a fatal stream...It was noted soon after his joyous birth, that he continued to bleed from the navel. The umbilical cord to Alexandra, his mother, was also the conduit to the then-fatal gene for hemophilia, carried from mother to son in many royal families. Alexandra, grand daughter of Queen Victoria passed "the bleeding disease" to her longed-for baby boy. His hemophilia led to Alexandra's dependence on the faith healing of Rasputin, which infuriated the Russian Duma and Russian people. Ironically, in the massacre, Alexei lived longer than one would expect- wounded, he clung to his beloved, dead father...and survived many blows and stab wounds only to be "finished off" by Yurovsky's two bullets into his ear.
Imperial and royal blood ran through Alexei's life as a fatal stream...It was noted soon after his joyous birth, that he continued to bleed from the navel. The umbilical cord to Alexandra, his mother, was also the conduit to the then-fatal gene for hemophilia, carried from mother to son in many royal families. Alexandra, grand daughter of Queen Victoria passed "the bleeding disease" to her longed-for baby boy. His hemophilia led to Alexandra's dependence on the faith healing of Rasputin, which infuriated the Russian Duma and Russian people. Ironically, in the massacre, Alexei lived longer than one would expect- wounded, he clung to his beloved, dead father...and survived many blows and stab wounds only to be "finished off" by Yurovsky's two bullets into his ear.