The world has long been fascinated by the compelling characters and cataclysmic events surrounding the end of the 300 year Romav dynasty. Alexei carried on his small frame two impossible burdens-heir and hemophiliac. - The curse of hemophilia- The Royal Disease -the greatest secret of the age - The mystical Rasputin-the peasant holy man with the phospherescent eyes-and his mesmerizing influence on the teenage tsarevich. Only Father Gregori could staunch the flow of blood during an attack - The four precious Romav daughters, OTMA: Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia and their cruel fate - WWI, Lenin and the Communist Revolution of 1917 Rasputin and Alexei gives a face and a soul to the teenage Alexei. Taken from first person accounts, Rasputin and Alexei is a vel about a boy whose murder (and that of his family) changed the world.