Hmm. I always liked the idea of Anastasia surviving the civil war and becoming Tsarina...
You'd have to get Dmitri and Kyril to agree since Tsar Paul's succession law barred women
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Grey Wolf
Hmm. I always liked the idea of Anastasia surviving the civil war and becoming Tsarina...
You'd have to get Dmitri and Kyril to agree since Tsar Paul's succession law barred women
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Grey Wolf
IIRC it only barred women in the absence of a legitimate and living male dynast but I forget, so this is a perfectly solvable problem![]()
If the Romanovs escape Russia in 1917 and live out their lives abroad, I could see them living quietly in some other place than Britain...perhaps the Tsar's mother's country of Denmark or maybe in Hesse. Nicholas would probably die sometime in the 1930s and Alexandra might survive into the late 1950s. She would probably die in obscurity largely forgotten by the world. After the death of her husband, she might take Russian Orthodox Holy Orders like her sister and spend the rest of her days as an Orthodox nun.
Alexei would probably die young...1920s or 1930s...not too likely he would produce an heir, though you never know. The hemophiliac son of Queen Victoria, Prince Leopold managed to father children. If more of the Royal Family survives than died in OTL, there might not be the right-of-succession squabbles we have today. It is entirely possible Nicholas might change the Romanov house laws in his old age to allow one of his daughters to succeed to the throne. At least one of them might end up as Queen of a Balkan country. At least one of them would probably marry a deposed German princeling. It would be ironic if Tatiana, Olga or Anastasia were among the East Prussian refugees who fled the Russian army in 1945. Perhaps one line of the Romanov girls might end up on Canada or the United States. By modern times, most of Nicholas and Alexandra's descendants would have broken the Pauline House Laws by marrying unsuitable spouses and the pretender squabbles would still happen but with different people.
But then again, I could be wrong.![]()
What about hemophelia? I believe it has been determined that all of the Tsar's daughters were carriers.
Milord, can you direct me to a source for that information? I do not dispute it, just never have heard that it was proven. Did the DNA testing on the Ekaterinburg corpses bring this out?