[gcparent]

So unfortunately the tragedy of their murders stopped hemophilia in their line.

[crz]

In the Russian line it did.

[hanamizu]

So unfortunately the tragedy of their murders stopped hemophilia in their line.

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When I told my jr high history students about Alexei’s hemophilia and the Russian Royal family’s efforts to keep the lad alive, the kids would ask how he died. I tell them that he ended up bleeding to death after all—after being shot with his parents and sisters by the communists.

Some of his sisters apparently survived the first fusillade. They had hidden their jewelry in the seams of their clothing, perhaps the most expensive bullet-proof clothing ever devised. Of course their murderers shot them all again in their heads.