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XXIII. In Conclusion
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Alexei Nicolaievich Romanov, Sovereign Heir, Tsarevich, and Grand Duke of Russia was not a haemophiliac and he did not die at the execution of his family on the 17th of July 1918. The son of Tsar Nicholas II was a sufferer of either Aplastic Anemia or Leukemia, which went into remission and lay dormant during his adult years until it returned to take his life in a Vancouver area hospital bed on the 26th of June 1977. The house in Ekaterinburg where the Bolshevik murders took place was demolished on orders from Moscow exactly one month later.
ALEXEI'S SURVIVAL FIFTY-NINE YEARS EARLIER DID NOT HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT. The two shots that execution squad commander Yakov Yurovsky had fired at the Prince's right ear twenty-six days before his fourteenth birthday were blanks.
The survival of the Crown Prince of Russia may have been assured by a hand shake agreement during the negotiations that produced the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. It was Kaiser Wilhelm's wish, Lenin owed the Germans a favour, and it may have resulted because the Kaiser's Field Marshall Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg had been asked for help by the Tsar's Grand Marshall Count Paul Benckendorff. Following the execution the Tsarevich was placed in the care of another member of the Benckendorff family and was taken out of Russia to Estonia one full year after the armistice that ended Russia's revolution.
While it may very well be that in these pages I have been skating on ice that is a little thin in places, I do not think that any cracks which might be showing will cause me to fall right through into the freezing waters that lie beneath. I do admit, however, that the footing is a little slippery.
I hope that I have done my best not to create any wild theories. My intention all along has only been to raise some new questions about the evidence that already exists. I invite the historians and experts who have much more knowledge and access to better information than I have to determine whether my questions are valid and if there are any new answers. The questions that I have raised may not be right on the target, but I am certain they will bring us much closer to the truth.
After all of the research work that I have done on this project, I am sure of one thing: To say that the Tsarevich Alexei did not survive that last fateful night in the House of Special Purpose is preposterous!
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