As I start laying out drafts and notes for the novel I'm writting about Alexei and his family, I'm finding the more I learn about them, the less I actually know!
There are so many myths, secrets and lies that are promoted by the movies hollywood types make, the truth is that I have had to ignore a lot of it.
There is not actual sentence in any of Alexandra's letters or Nicholas diary, that say Alexei rode his sled down the staircase. It's not to say it may have
not happened, there is every chance it did.
But when neither of the parents mention it specifically you have to be a little curious.
They say he had a terrible cough, and if Alexei had a delicate stomach lining, (which he did, his medical report says it.) A cough would have easily aggrivated it and caused hemorging in his lower abdomen.
Most people at the time this information was released, believe the story because they still envisioned Alexei as a small boy.
He was a teenager, and yes I agree with everyone else, I was young teen not that long ago, and I did do very stupid things. But I'm convinced he would not have done something like that, esspecially as if the movies claim, his beloved Naysta or other sister's were around to see it.
Why would he want to upset his sisters, who loved him like crazy, like that by seeing what might have very been his death?
I'm still not convinced. There is not
enough evidence, most of it is just copied from other accounts.
