Today we continued our unit on the Russian Revolution. The last Tsar, Nicholas II, has just married Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, Granddaughter of Queen Victoria. They had four daughters and their youngest, a son and future Tsar of Russia was born with hemophilia. The Russian Tsarina had tremendous guilt over passing hemophilia on to her son (although this was a common genetic illness among Europe's royal families). Unfortunately, this made the Tsarina dependent on the crude mystic Rasputin. The Tsarina's relationship contributed to the downfall of the Romanov dynasty (but we'll see in future classes that there were many other issues that lead to the dynasty's collapse, murder of the Romanov family and the Russian Revolution. It's a long story and the events span many years.