... difficulties, especially the birth of 4 daughters who were ineligible to inherit the throne. The need for a male heir may have been the stressor Alexandra faced in 1902 when she experienced a phantom pregnancy the doctors attributed to anaemia. Finally a son was born on July 30 1904. Through his grandfather Alexander III, Nicholas II made Alexei heir to one of the most vast ... ...

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