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 | | A gigantic and imposing, if somewhat dull man, with great stamina and poor manners, Alexander, fearful of the fate which had befallen his father- death by an extremist's bomb- strengthened autocratic rule in Russia, and many of the reforms the more liberal Alexander II had pushed through were reversed. |
 | | Nicholas's wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, although devoutly Orthodox, was particularly hated by the populace. |
 | | Alexandra Fyodorovna brought to the Romanov family a mutated gene of her grandmother, Queen Victoria, which was responsible for her son's (the long-awaited heir to the throne, Alexei) hemophilia. |
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