Hemophilia in the Tsarevitch

The first sign of himophilia in the tsarevitch came right away when they snipped the umbiblical cord, and it just kept bleeding. When little alexey was three, he smacked his face and his eyes swelled shut. He would wake up complaining that his arm or his leg didn't work properly as blood had seeped painfully into his joints. After the hemophelia diagnosis became unavoidable, the imperial family elected to hide the condition as much as possible and keep it a strict family secret.