Grand Dukes Sergei and Pavel with friends posing as hunters in a studio
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Those royals are always up to something. Unfortunately, in the past, that something included inbreeding. Find out what kinds of conditions a shallow gene pool can cause.
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Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, former heir of Russia, bathing in the pond next to the children’s island. Tsarskoye Selo, June 1917. Months…
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Alexandra Feodorovna (born as Alix Viktoria Helena Luise Beatrice of Hesse and by Rhine in 1872) was the second youngest daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse and his wife Alice, who herself was a daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. In 1894 she married Nicholas II of Russia and became Empress Consort. There youngest child, and only son, Alexei was born in 1904. He was born with Haemophilia, a disorder which he inheritated from his mothers family. Both were killed by the Bolsheviks in…
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Alexandra and Nicholas, with Alexei
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"Hang off, thou cat, thou burr, thou vile thing" William Shakespeare
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Once upon a time there was a vast Empire stretching from the beaches of the Crimea to the deep Siberian forests. Its capital never knew the darkness of the night in summer, its countryside flourished with myths and folk legends.... It was a country of great men and of small, a land where beauty and...
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