Гемофилия - болезнь царских фамилий © Hemophilia - a disease of royal families

1992 Heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei was born on July 30 (August 12), 1904, in Peterhof. According to one version, the prince was named in honor of the Moscow Metropolitan Alexy, and according to another, in honor of the second Russian Tsar from the Romanov dynasty, Alexei Mikhailovich (1629 - 1676). the birth of his son Alexei did not bring reassurance to the imperial family. Two months after the birth of Tsarevich Alexei began heavy bleeding, which could not be stopped for a long time. Doctors told the crowned parents a terrible diagnosis: hemophilia. Hemophilia is a hereditary disease in which the blood coagulation mechanism is impaired. The patient suffers from bleeding even with minor injuries and sudden hemorrhages in the internal organs and joints, which leads to their inflammation and destruction. Hemophilia patients no longer suffer from external, but from internal bleeding. In this disease, the lining of the arteries is so thin that even a small injury can cause rupture of the vessels and heavy bleeding. Earlier, the three-year-old brother of Alexandra Fedorovna died from hemophilia, because, hemophilia is inherited. The first carrier of hemophilia disease was the English Queen Victoria (1819-1901) who reigned for more than 63 years - the last representative of the unfortunate Hanover dynasty and the ancestor of the ruling in Britain and still the House of Windsor. Uncle Leopold married Albert's nephew and Victoria's niece - this closely related relationship led to the appearance in the family of the disease - hemophilia. The last years of Victoria's life were overshadowed by the death of her son Alfred, the grave illness of her daughter Victoria and the death of two grandchildren. Queen Victoria of England was the bearer of hemophilia. Victoria's son Leopold died of hemophilia at the age of 30, and two of her five daughters, Alice and Beatrice, were carriers of this ill-fated gene, passing it on to their children. And with each generation, the number of these hemophilia victims has increased. Nikolai Alexandrovich and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria - Princess Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt, a carrier of hemophilia, entered into a dynastic marriage on January 17, 1895. The proximity to the court of Grigory Rasputin, who managed to quickly stop the bleeding, was also associated with hemophilia of the heir to the throne. Due to Alexei’s terrible illness, bodyguards were assigned to him from an early age: two sailors from the imperial yacht, boatswain Derevenko and his assistant Klimenty Nagorny. “The Tsarevich is alive while I am alive,” said Grigory Rasputin, and he was right. Tsarevich Aleksey survived the old man only one and a half years. Before his 14th birthday, Tsarevich Alexei did not live only a few weeks. On the night of July 17, 1918, the boy Alex was killed along with his parents and sisters in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. July 17, 1918 - Day of the assassination of Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexy, Tsarevna Olga, Tatyana, Maria and Anastasia, and their faithful servants: life physician Evgeny Sergeyevich Botkin, footman Aleksey Egorovich Troupe, court chef Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov and a bedroom girl Sovereign Anna Stepanovna Demidova. #медфильм