“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh insights. Nicholas II was, as Mr. Hasegawa puts ... the hemophiliac heir Alexei. Alexandra would chastise her weak-willed husband ...
Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...
That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey ... Queen Victoria the defective gene that made her son Alexei a hemophiliac. Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an ...
Alexei suffered from haemophilia ... Persuasive civil servants could easily influence Tsar Nicholas II, who was unsure of himself and indecisive. Promotion relied more on years of service rather ...
Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... In April 1907, Alexandra called on him to heal her only son, the Tsarevich Alexei. He was suffering from painful bleeding as a result of ...