Tsar Nicholas II and Family
Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1917), the last emperor of Russia, in 1914, with his wife Alexandra and his children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. The Romanovs became victims of the 1917 Russian revolution. Inbreeding was common among royal families, causing genetic disorders. As a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England, Alexandra carried the gene mutation for hemophilia, which she passed on to her son
Picture No
11121489
Media ID
46693034
Size
5550px x 3505px
(2.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
1914
