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The trilogy of books, The Alexis Romanoff Autobiographies, are a fascinating history about a father, mother, and son. During the early 1930s, the mother, Elsie Aichinger,
wrote about her relationship with the father, Alexis Romanoff, in her diary before her early death in 1937.
During the late 1950s through the 1970s, the father, Alexis Romanoff, wrote his memoir, Yearning to Breathe Free. And now the son is piecing his family's true history together in this wonderful collection that includes
820 pages and hundreds of historically dated photos.
From the son:
"My father died in May 1986. In his manuscript, he claimed to be the Tsarevitch Alexis Romanoff, the son of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
His claim of being Russian royalty could not be verified because DNA testing was not available at that time. After his death, a DNA test was done on some of his skin tissue and it did not match the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia.
Alexis' last wife had some doubts about the results of the DNA testing, which was done in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His memoirs of life in the Royal Russian Court is an amazing story with details that lends to its claimed
authenticity. The autobiographies and the surrounding historical studies add to the question about whether the primary claims are fact or fiction.
My father entered the United States illegally in 1919 through Hoboken, New Jersey. From 1919 through 1942, he had many aliases in his attempts to elude the immigration authorities. It was not until the late 1930s and early 1940s
that he openly used the name Prince Alexis Romanoff.
Alexis also practiced medicine without a license probably up until 1940. This is what got him into so much trouble along with being an illegal alien. In the 1920s he was married in Minneapolis, Minnesota under the name
of Roy N. Anthony. By the next decade, he was using the alias Romano Trotzky while he was married to my mother. He also used the name Roy Lukan in Phoenix when doing an internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in the late 1920s.
in my mother's memoirs, she kept a detailed diary as she stood by him when he was accused of murder. He was to be tried and acquitted in the courts in Flagstaff, Arizona. His financial and legal problems were a huge strain on my mother.
She was expecting her only child, which was her son, Robert (me). The duress of this trial and the traumatic events that were a part of it took their toll as she passed away when I was only four years old. Her diary is the first
part of the manuscript in this trilogy of autobiographies.
The third part is my life after her death in 1937. I was raised by my grandmother and then by my uncle up to the age of eleven. I would then see my father for the first time in my memory and go to live with him in 1945.
My part tells about my relationship with him. We had many differences of opinion that made our relationship understandably acrimonious.
I also had my mother's maiden name for a last name. I was Bobby Aichinger as a child, then Robert Romanoff during the years I lived with my father. In 1952, shortly before I graduated from high school,
my uncle notified me that my legal name (changed by my grandmother before her death) was Robert Lukian. To keep official records straight from that time on and including my time in the Marine Corps, this is the name I retained.
Please consider reading this fascinating American story!"
Order the 820-page book, The Alexis Romanoff Autobiographies
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