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Alexi did not have leukemia. He was a hemophiliac, a bleeder.

There is a great book called Nicolas and Alexandra I read years ago. Would like to read it again.

If I am not mistaken, Tzar Nicolas had an older brother who had died and he asended to the throne. He was not raised to run the kingdom and he hated being tzar. As a result so many mistakes were made by listening to advisors and such he surrounded himself with.

I think Rasputin was the last straw and the shooting of people who appeared in the court yard of one of the palaces to protest involvement in the war, and the starvation of people, resulted in abocation and subsequently the death of the entire family.

Just facinating history.

You might also find the book, Queen Victoia’s Gene by DM Potts interesting. The author suggests a quite surprising theory as to how Victoria came to carry the gene and how it became a major factor in the downfall of the Spanish as well as the Rusian royal families.
My son has a form of hemophilia so I have a avid curiosity about the disease.

Alexi did not have leukemia. He was a hemophiliac, a bleeder.

You are right - I had a senior moment.

I've studied the Romanovs for decades - I even met a gal a few years ago that is descended from a branch - they - her grandparents - escaped Russia, changed their name and even kept their real name from their new generations -

She only knew that her grandparents had escaped back during the Bolshevik Rev.

I met her through my art (portrait) and told her she was a carbon copy of Anastasia/Maria. She had a photo of her father, and he was a mirror image of the Tsar. The Tsar was a cousin to George, who would become King George V of England. They were almost mirror twins - Tsar Nicolas's mother was also a Fyodorovna (a bit diff. spelling.)

So she asked a great uncle what their name had been - and he felt that, by now, it was safe enough to tell her.

She called me and said, no, they weren't from the Romanovs - the name was Fedorovna.

Fedorovna! She was shocked when I told her that that was the Tsarina's (Alexandra Fedorovna) maiden name...and granddaughter of Queen Victoria (So she called Uncle back and learned the truth. She's a beautiful women 0 with the deep red hair, gray eyes and bone structure that the English line has been famous for generations...)