William o. Douglas #79 (1898-1980) in 1956 justice William o. Douglas attends a party at the Russian embassy . he is shown with Russian ambassador and is in attendance as the Russians celebrate the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. (English queen Victoria lost a grand -daughter Alexandra to the Bolsheviks when they shot and bayonetted her, her children, and her husband Nicholas II, Czar, or Russia.) in an oblique observation justice Douglas observed: “sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Perhaps that is right.