Well,
i have several historical 'obsessions' wich ofcourse includes the Romanovs, and the mystery around so-called survivors. Besides that i also am quite obsessed with Titanic, Anne Frank, Marie Antoinette, Princess Diana, Empress Elisabeth of Austria/Hungary and Queen Astrid of Belgium.
Anyway, when I started in Highschool they gave everyone several minutes to tell about their lvies, hobbys so when they asked me what are you interested in i started with the usual things, Harry Potter, Shelle(my favorite soap-couple - one asks 'what is it?', so i say 'a soap-couple') and then i come to the heavy subjects, Titanic(everyone knew whats the big deal here because of the movie, aldo i am more interested in its history), Anne Frank(had to explain who she was and everything), Marie Antoinette(everyone knew she was executed, but for the rest i had to explain a little), Princess Diana(everyone knows about her ofcourse), Empress Elisabeth( A girl asked 'who is she?' so i said 'she was Empress of Austria, better known as Sisi', and the girl goes 'now i know'), and then i say Queen Astrid(everyone knows here here since she is one of the more famous Queens Belgium had over the years).
After all of that i came to my biggest obsession, The Romanovs: Everyone knew it had something to do with Anastasia and wanted to know in what way the animated movie was right, so i said, in no way. And they all listened quite fasinated to the story. I told them about Nicholas as a Tsar, as a husband and father, so they would know a little how he was. Then i went on about Alexei(some girls cried when i told about him and his disease), his sisters and Rasputin. Then to the revolution and exile. when i was done a boy tried to be funny and said that i seem to be obsessed with Tragic events and people who met terrible deaths', and i reacted quiete normal 'i am not interested in only their deaths, but also in their lives and the times they lived in' and he tried to get me mad at him by saying 'The Romanovs deserved their death' and I calmly responded 'They didn't, no one deserves such death, and you are working on the fact that Nicholas wasn't a good ruler. Like that is a reason to be killed.'
The funny thing is, every time there is a class about one of the events or people listed above my teachers ask me for a movie, or information, and usualy ask to help me in class because they know i qan talk passionatly about such a things, and that if i would notice a mistake i would go on about it
Not really funy but thats the hardest reaction i've ever had on it.