Anastasia didn't have her period in exile?

[mollydolly]

I read somewhere that Anastasia Nikolaievna never had her period because of bad health in exile. I don't know how true it is, can someone help me? I'm just curious, I'd like to correct the source.

[bluetoria]

Hello mollydolly   Welcome to the Forum  
What an odd thing to want to know!
I haven't a clue about the answer but then I always think it a bit odd that Alix's letters to Nicholas so often make reference to the dates of her daughters' periods. I can't imagine many mothers would write such minor details to many fathers, nor why they should need to??

(I also imagine it would have greatly embarrassed the daughters had they known  :-/ )

[Georgiy]

I don't know - their mother was obsessed with health, and they all had their temperatures taken every day - to them it was probably all quite normal.

I would imagine considering her age, that even Anastasia would have had a visit from "Mme Becker" more than a few times before the revolution.

[bluetoria]

She probably would have been pleased if she did 'get out of it' in exile considering the way the soldiers humiliated the girls by following them even to the bathroom.
In those days it all must have been terribly inconvenient.  :-/

[clockworkgirl21]

I've never read anything about that in Alix's letters. Anyway, we should probably stop posting here. I don't think anything is wrong with this topic, it's about Anastasia's health, but someone else might and lock it.

[Lanie]

Alix writes about how AN got her period.  So.  She was okay.

[clockworkgirl21]

Did she really? What year and month was this? I have to reread that, I'm curious as to how Aleksandra worded that. I don't think she would have just written "Anastasia had her period." Not in the early 1900s.

[Sarai_Porretta]

She probably would have written something along the lines of "Anastasia got a visit from Mme. Becker today."

[bookworm857158367]

There were various feminine sanitary supplies found in the house by the White Russian army after the family's deaths. I think it's safe to assume that they were healthy and functioned as everyone else does. On average, girls matured later in the early 20th century and Anastasia was quite small. I suppose it's possible she was a late bloomer, though it's not really important.

[Laura Mabee]

Is "Mme Becker" the code word for it that they used?

[bluetoria]

Yes. (Don't know why.)

[etonexile]

So much easier to be a chap.....

[bluetoria]

Indeed, etonexile. Were chaps to endure this, there would probably have been laws passed allowing so many extra sick days from work every month!    

[moonlight_tsarina]

I'm glad someone posted this because I was also curious. So did they deal with it technically the same way we do these days?  

[clockworkgirl21]

I'm still wondering how Aleksandra would have said the girls had their periods. Would it have been something like, "Anastasia had her first monthly..." or "Olga has been ill from her monthly?" Why else would she put it in her letters?