Word: tsarevitch
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...navel on the slightest provocation. Doctors were powerless to stop the bleeding; but Rasputin contrived to do so, by what means will per haps never be known. He was too clever to show his debauched nature to the Tsar, who saw in him the daily savior of the Tsarevitch Alexis' life, and thus listened too readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison...
...Royal Highness Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, Crown Prince of Spain, was declared last week to be an hemophile by Le Matin, one of the least sensational of Parisian dailies. Le Matin's assertion that Prince Alfonso is subject to uncontrollable hemorrhages, as was the late Tsarevitch Alexis of Russia, served merely to define the nature of an illness long known to exist. Among other of Prince Alfonso's royal traits is, of course, the hereditary pouting nether lip of the Bourbons...
...quoted as believing Yurovski suddenly resolved to assassinate the Imperial family when he discovered that Nicholas was communicating with loyal friends by means of such notes concealed in the hollow cork of a milk bottle. According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
...commenting upon the behavior of the Imperial family, the nun alleged that the daughters of the Tsar "employed their graces" to gain the sympathy of the guards for their father and the Tsarevitch. The editor of Krasnya warmly defended his action in publishing the story: "I am a good Communist. ... I wanted people to know that the Tsar is really dead, because of the spread of a false rumor that Lord Kitchener smuggled him to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. ... I want everyone to know that Comrade Wykoff annihilated the last vestige of the Tsar with sulphuric acid...
Princess Dagmar of Denmark left Denmark in 1866, at the age of 18, to marry the Tsarevitch at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) under the name of Marie Féodorovna...