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« Reply #135 on: March 01, 2005, 03:04:54 PM »
Sorry for not being clearer. I meant when did it become public about his hemophilia.

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« Reply #136 on: March 01, 2005, 03:25:27 PM »
I'm pretty sure it became public when Alexei was ill at Spala, because when everyone thought that Alexei was very close to death, the Tsar and Tsarina decided that they should tell Russia that the Tsarevich was close to death and why!

Everyone started praying for him all over Russia and then a priest came to Alexei and looked at him and said that a news bulletin should be given out the next day saying that the Tsarevich was dead. But that didn't happen because Alexei later recovered!

I hope that anwsered your question and if I'm wrong please correct me!

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« Reply #137 on: March 01, 2005, 03:57:22 PM »
When Alexei was ill at Spala, they only published bulletins that he was gravely ill, "from a fall", but the exact nature of the hemophilia was indeed never revealed publicly at the time. Many people close to the court knew, and so it was not a total secret,but the vast majority of Russians did not know.  Yes, a death announcement was prepared for Alexei, but was not issued as he did recover after receiving the famous telegram from Rasputin.

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« Reply #138 on: March 01, 2005, 04:03:29 PM »
I always thought that after Spala Russia knew that Alexei had Hemophilia, but i huess I was wrong! Thanks FA!

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« Reply #139 on: March 02, 2005, 11:37:04 AM »
It is my understanding that N&A were still hiding it while in captivity and that their captors did not know what was wrong with him.  Therefore, it had to come out sometime after the massacre.  My theory is that because the close family knew about it, that they started speaking about it publicly some time later.  But, I am curious about how it became public knowledge.

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« Reply #140 on: March 07, 2005, 08:46:51 PM »
that could be true, but so many people in the family and out knew about his condition so it had to spread, like practicaly no one can keep a secret like that in for long!
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« Reply #141 on: March 21, 2005, 09:08:51 AM »
As the "bleeder" descendants of Queen Victoria had haemophelia...It seems pretty likely that Alexei had it too...I wonder if this disease still pops up in the old Queen's family?

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« Reply #142 on: June 20, 2005, 01:17:45 PM »
I recently discovered the following from the New York Times, November 10, 1912:

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« Reply #143 on: June 21, 2005, 10:30:44 AM »
And that was just around the time of the Spala incident, correct?  I thought I had read that in the other thread.

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« Reply #144 on: June 21, 2005, 03:11:17 PM »
To my knowledge the "h" word was not used in any of the dairies or letters of Nicholas and Alexandra. It is also my understanding as far as we know, Alexei's medical records do not exist.

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« Reply #145 on: June 21, 2005, 04:52:51 PM »
There could be a simple reason why it is not mentioned in their diaries in that these were not 'private' documents meant only for their own eyes, but documents that would become State property, which is why you find little in the way of their deepest innermost thoughts in the diaries. The nature of Alexei's malady was not public knowledge, nor did his parents want it to be, though by 1912 it would seem it was a somewhat poorly kept secret.

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« Reply #146 on: June 21, 2005, 05:17:23 PM »
The same is true for their letters. You will note that they numbered their letters to each other, because they knew that their personal correspondence would be put into the archives, thus they never wrote anything they did not want made public in their letters.

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« Reply #147 on: June 21, 2005, 09:20:00 PM »
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To my knowledge the "h" word was not used in any of the dairies or letters of Nicholas and Alexandra. It is also my understanding as far as we know, Alexei's medical records do not exist.


I believe the medical records do exist.


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« Reply #148 on: June 22, 2005, 06:33:51 PM »
I thought done of the medical records of Alexei survived.  Did they?  If so, where can they be found?

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« Reply #149 on: June 22, 2005, 08:27:00 PM »
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I believe the medical records do exist.

I did not know that. Does anyone know for sure?