Mikhail was awoken to become the first tsar of Russia, Alexei was awakened to die. Why? The Romanov dynasty came to a violent end Since the 19th century, the popularity of the monarchy in Russia ...

and inherited from her grandmother Queen Victoria the defective gene that made her son Alexei a hemophiliac. Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas IIÍs abdication in 1917.

The Romanov family was executed by the Bolsheviks ... but two bodies were missing – Alexei and one of the daughters. Out of this came the story that Princess Anastasia had escaped and was ...