Sir Antony Beevor

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TRIGGERnometry · The Russian Mindset and Where it Comes From - Historian Sir Antony Beevor · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

The trouble was that one has to remember, first of all, the Tsar, his father, Alexander III, thought that he was going to have much longer time to prepare his son.

And anyway, he felt, well, I'd had no preparation or whatever, so surely he doesn't really need preparation either.

So again, lack of imagination.

And of course, he did treat his son as a weakling, which did not improve his confidence.

And the only confidence Nicholas ever had

when he was surrounded by young army officers who, of course, all were fawning on him and so forth.

And he was at his happiest when he was going to sort of regimental dinners where they would all cheer him.

And then when he left, you know, he was treated as a hero.

And this gave him the idea that the army would always be loyal, that, you know, that the power of the Romanos could never be shaken.

The idea that that would ever change never occurred to him until the First World War and right at the end when he suddenly saw the disintegration of his own armies.

Well, the tragedy, of course, was it was called the English disease because haemophilia came through the line of Queen Victoria, and it was on the mother's side, the mothers who carried it.

It skipped a generation going on to Alexandra, the Empress Alexandra.

And the four daughters were absolutely fine.

And then Alexis, when he was born, they realized that he had hemophilia.

If you get it cut, you're going to bleed out.

Exactly.

Obviously, it is a disease entirely of the blood, which produces appalling pain in the joints, particularly.

And of course, this is what gave Rasputin his power.

um he didn't really have any power or influence at the beginning but the moment that he started to be able to relieve the symptoms mainly by the voice and by the touch and his eyes some people say he was a hypnotist but i'm not sure so sure about that i mean he did use those eyes in a sort of powerful way but as far as the children were concerned it wasn't just alexis

I'd like to say it was one or two others.

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