The Romanovs
In 1884, Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov, met his future wife, Alexandra Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice, Princess of Hesse. On April 20,1894, they were married. During that same year Nicholas took the throne because of his father's death and became the emperor of Russia. He was only 26.
Alexandra and Nicholas lived happily together. They had something that not every royal couple had, love. I am impassioned by the way the books describe their daily life. She was his Queen and he was her King, just like in fairy tale; and fruits of their love were their children. On November 3, 1895, Alexandra gave a birth to a girl who was named Olga. The Tsar was little bit disappointed that he got a ...
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female-emperors before. Katherine the Great is one of them.
Russians are very religious people. However, they also have faith in magicians. As a Russian citizen I have to admit that many Russians do believe in these people who supposedly have healing powers and can treat any disease with out surgical invasions. This faith is so strong that it can become a problem. Sometimes people chose magicians over the real physicians. Alexandra believed that one of these people, with powers like that, could help them. They invited a priest who was popular by for healing powers. The priest promised that pregnant Alexandra would give birth to a boy. The priest, however, turned out to be a charlatan, because on June 5th of 1901 Grand-Duchess Anastasia was born.
Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia
Then Alexandra became pregnant with her fifth child. Day and night she was prayed to God for the boy. She understood how important it was for the country. Finally, Tsarevich Alexsei was born on ...
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why, but I believe that he was called that because he served in a church as a priest and at the same time he was practicing sorcery. Some Russians believe that magic and religion are two completely opposite things and people who practice both are evil. This included Gregory Rasputin. However, Alexandra used to call him a "holy man" because of his powers to help her son.
Gregory Rasputin
Some people believe that he used hypnosis on Alexsei. In addition, he did not serve as a good monk. He used to go out at night and party, when usually church servants during that time lived on a strict regime when drinking, smoking and sex with out marriage were grave sins and to commit these ...
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