The fall of the Romanovs is a story of arrogance, incompetence, and strife—but you can't lay any of that at young Alexei Romanov's feet. The golden son of the Russian royal family, Alexei's ...

He brought the country, through his new capital at St. Petersburg ... the defective gene that made her son Alexei a hemophiliac. Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas ...