Tsars as healers?

[Stephanie Briggs]

I'm very interested to hear thoughts on this, as I have a particular
interest in Nicholas II.

Question about Alexei's hemophilia and Alexandra as a carrier for the
disease, because it's been a while since I've read Massie's *Nicholas and
Alexandra*. Why was there no warning, in the form of Victoria's offspring? I
believe at least one developed the disease. Why would Alexandra never have
picked up on this possibility before Alexei's birth?

Stephanie
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On 11 September 2010 15:21, Luciano Di Cocco <luciano.dicocco at tin.it> wrote:

> This one is connected with the thread about Mary as coredemptrix. It is a
> personal curiosity, not an academic question.
> I know that Roman emperors were supposed to be healers and/or performers of
> miracles. And that in the middle ages and in early modernity kings by divine
> right were supposed, at least in folk religion, to share the same attribute.
> I have read that a similar conception lasted in Russia until recent times.
> Is this true? If so, how long have it lasted? Was Nicholas II supposed, at
> least in folk piety, to be a healer? If so, did his manifest incapacity to
> heal his own son have some effect in the popular vision of him?
>
> As I've said, this is only a personal curiosity.
>
> All best
> Luciano Di Cocco
>
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