Hello, Douglas! Thank you for your introspective question to my Post! It is always nice to hear from you! (This is undoubtedly "off-topic," but it is in relation to your question posted here.) First let me preface my opinion/s, by saying that I hold no particular interest in the last Romanov family. They are to me, "floatsam and jetsam" in the stream of history........ a most unfortunate family. The word "tiresome" that I use in reference to the four daughters, is to reference the seemingly constant adulation, amounting to "worship" given to them at various sites, when it is obvious they are basicly remembered by virtue of birth (sheer chance) and by their death (intentional), as others in previous similiar families have experienced. It is further obvious that, had things proceeded "normally," they would have been destined for relative obscurity as appendages of the Emperor's family, married and disappeared into the "mists of history." I can identify with them as fellow human beings and the subsequent vicissitudes of their short lives, but as for the continuous mourning and yearning by some people for them, I find them tiresome as subject material. As you have so correctly said in your post, " I accept them as they WERE (emphasis added) not as I might wish them to be." Right on! Thank God, with the final identification of the bodies, this interest in them is abating nicely. With the best of regards (and appreciation for the Shakespearean reference!), AP