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“Along with the births, there were illnesses and deaths. In the summer of 1899, Nicholas’s brother, Grand Duke George finally died at twenty-seven of tuberculosis, and in the fall of 1900, Nicholas himself came down with typhoid fever in the Crimea. Alexandra nursed him herself. ‘Nicky was really an angel,’ she wrote to her sister. ‘I rebelled at a nurse being taken and we managed perfectly ourselves.”