Something that is often overlooked is the fact that Dagmar of Denmark [later Marie Fedorovna Tsaritsa of All Russias] was originally bethrothed to Nicholas Alexandrovich [son of Alexander II, not Tsar Nicholas II]. On his deathbed, he told Alexander Alexandrovich [Alexander II] to marry Dagmar. Nicholas died of Bronchitis. His illness came from and infection to the lungs after a fall while wrestling [like all true Romanovs love]. The illness started as bronchitis and became turburcolosis. Ironically his father freed the Russian serfs, and he died in the same year that the United States ended their Civil War. [1865]
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