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looking at the top 10 facts about the
mad monk Gregorio Rasputin the Romanovs
were the last imperial family in Russia
led by Tsar Nicholas ii and his wife
Serena
Alexandra this was before the Revolution
occurred in 1917 that Serena believed
strongly in the supernatural which led
her to hire a monk assess spiritual
adviser and that monk was grigori
rasputin
it turns out that Rasputin was more than
just a humble monk he has been
considered one of the most evil figures
in history and even possibly the devil
incarnate and in the video we're looking
at 10 facts about this man number 10 he
was a prodigy
grigory rasputin grew up as a peasant in
a small Siberian village called
pokrovskaya his entire family was an
illiterate farming family and they had a
reputation for being horse thieves as a
child Rasputin claimed to have healing
powers and that he could also see into
the future
at that time in Russia the occult was
actually pretty in fashion so instead of
burning him at the stake for witchcraft
those peasants in the village simply
accepted that he actually had incredible
healing powers this allowed him to get
away with swearing stealing drinking
sleeping around and generally being a
terrible person he got married and had
children but at 28 years old he decided
that he wanted to change his ways and
become a monk this meant abandoning his
family in order to go on this spiritual
quest he began living in a monastery but
when he realized he did not actually
want to be a Russian Orthodox priest he
abruptly decided to leave and walk home
wandering around the woods of Siberia
keep in mind that the Siberian forest is
no joke it's filled with wolves tigers
bears vipers and Wolverines when he
finally came back to his village people
could see that he was a totally changed
man he now had a long beard and desires
stayed on forever and he claims that his
spiritual power had intensified number
nine he joined a sex cult his family and
friends knew that something had
definitely changed about Rasputin while
he was in the forest which is why most
people believe he joins an outlaw cult
called the killest s'
they were an offshoot of the Russian
Orthodox Church that believed that they
could only achieve salvation through
committing sins they would dance until
they felt a drunk on the Holy Spirit and
immediately followed this feeling of
ecstasy by having a massive orgy as you
might imagine the killers were quite a
popular underground group that a lot of
Siberians wanted to join because well it
was probably the most interesting thing
going on for those peasant folk in
Siberia
when Rasputin returned to his home
village he began his own cult and
continued to have sex with his
congregation if you're wondering why so
many women in the village would have
been willing to join this cult and cheat
on their husbands he was known for more
than just his magic abilities after he
died they preserved his penis because it
has a reputation of its own we're not
going to show a picture of it but let's
just say it's abnormally large even some
lady members of the aristocracy began to
travel far and wide to join his group
for the opportunity to sin with this
popular monk he earns quite a reputation
for himself that spans across all of
Russia number eight
he was a miraculous Gila as 34 years old
Rasputin decided that he was done
preaching to a small-town audience and
he wanted to move to the capital city of
st. Petersburg he claimed that he had a
vision from the Virgin Mary who told him
to go to the city because the royal
family needed his help
Serena Alexandre needed to produce a
male heir for the Romanov family but for
the longest time she was only giving
birth to daughters she was very
superstitious and believed in the occult
so she consulted several mystics to help
her give birth to a boy unfortunately
her son Alexi was born with hemophilia
this is a disease that prevents the
blood from clotting so if he were ever
to get a cut the injury would never stop
bleeding when Rasputin was introduced to
the Romanovs their son's illness was
kept a secret he asked if he could pray
over the boy and advised them to keep
the doctors away when Alexi actually
began to get better the boy's parents
were stunned today people believe that
the reason why Alexi was healed was not
because of magical powers but because
Rasputin refused to allow Alexi to take
aspirin at the time aspirin was
prescribed by doctors as a wonder drug
but it was actually making the boys
hemophilia much worse even though rest
Putin was illiterate he did know a thing
or two about
number seven he smells terrible
according to testimonies from people who
mattress Putin he never bothered to
bathe peices food were often seen
hanging in his beard he claims that he
went six months wearing the same
underwear a French ambassador visiting
Russia compared his body odor to a goat
this makes it all the more repugnant
that he continued having sex with
everything that moved apparently they
saw his disheveled appearance as
charming and no one seemed to mind his
complete lack of personal hygiene
apparently the Equality that drove women
mad where his eyes that apparently
burned into your soul this was so strong
that some believed that he had the
ability to hypnotize people into doing
his bidding only with his eyes he grew
rich from the money and favors that he
got by healing wealthy Russians but he
also advertised that he would accept
payment in the form of kisses which must
have been difficult considering that he
never brushed his teeth number 6
he was the Imperial puppet master after
healing Alexei he told Nicholas and
Alexandra that without him their son
would die since he was the sole heir to
the throne they felt that they had no
choice but to accept
Rasputin's demands there are rumors that
he was allowed to sleep with the its
arena as mattress he wanted and he had
access to their daughters as well he
started to call Nicholas and Alexandra
papa and mama as if he was a part of the
family he also gave the family advice on
what they should do based on visions
that he claimed were from God every time
anyone did something that displeased
Rasputin he would tell the Empress and
get them in trouble then of course there
were his hypnotizing eyes some people
believed that he had the ability to
trick anyone into doing his bidding by
just staring at them and that he could
convince anyone to do almost anything
Rasputin had all the makings of a
successful cult leader and he used his
charisma to slowly but surely manipulate
everyone around him to gain unlimited
power over the Russian royal family
number five he had devout disciples
Rasputin forms a fanbase of women who
were happy to show up to his apartment
to listen to him speak he wasn't just
satisfied with his many female followers
either secret police were put on his
tail and they recorded that he had
prostitutes multiple times a day in
between his appointments one of the most
tragic stories of his
without followers was a beautiful woman
named Olga latina she originally visited
Rasputin for an excruciatingly ly
painful intestinal neurasthenia
after he healed her she became convinced
that he was the second coming of Christ
and she wanted to be one of his
disciples
she left her wealthy husband and
children behind in order to move into
Rasputin's apartment this of course
became a public scandal it was reported
in the newspapers and the police
monitored the situation closely lock
Tina demanded that anyone who visited
Rasputin should address him as God the
longer she lived with him though the
more she went insane she ultimately
ended up in a mental institution number
four he was working with the devil if
you didn't think that taken advantage of
women was enough don't worry it gets a
whole lot worse in his journals Rasputin
wrote that he was in an ongoing in a
battle with the devil himself he would
purposefully seek out sinful situations
in order to fight off the evil that he
could feel building up inside of him he
would take women into bath houses and
perform a so-called a ritual where he
claims that the devil possessed him into
beating prostitutes
immediately after purging this sin he
would have sex with them he claimed that
he could actually see the devil standing
right in front of him multiple people
witnessed him screaming to himself in
the streets at this invisible figure two
of the head priests in some petersburg
cornered Rasputin and tried to give him
an intervention one of the bishops a man
named her modern actually calls him out
for hurting so many women he grabbed her
ass Putin's penis and screamed that he
was the Antichrist then they proceeded
to beat him with a huge crucifix of
course Rasputin ran often told that
serene or about what had happened so
those priests were banished from some
Petersburg number three he was hated by
everyone including himself by now it
shouldn't be surprising to learn that
not everyone was drinking Rasputin's
kool-aid during the years he served as
the Royal advisor he earned himself a
lot of enemies plenty of men were
unhappy with the fact that he went
around sleeping with nearly every woman
in Russia and claiming to be Jesus while
tsar nicholas ii was battling alongside
his soldiers during World War one
Rasputin began to advise Alexandra on
her decisions as Sarina and even
appointed his friends into positions in
the government it didn't take long for
everyone to realize that he was making
all of the decisions for her newspapers
printed rude political cartoons of
Rasputin
and the Tsarina having an affair Empress
Alexandra was born in Germany and she
was Queen Victoria's granddaughter since
she was not born in Russia this gave
people a reason to doubt that she truly
cared about the country's well-being
while people were dying of starvation in
Russia Rasputin continued his lavish
lifestyle politicians call him a devil
and used him as an example of everything
that was wrong with Imperial Russia
Rasputin knew that people wanted him
dead he warned Tsarina Alexandra that if
any one with the Romanov blood were
responsible for his death he would put a
curse on the family that would endure
for two years after his death number two
he was impossible to kill since Rasputin
had so many enemies there were
assassination attempts on his life more
than once the first time that someone
tried to kill him was a priest named
illud or he believed that Rasputin was
the devil incarnate he found a
prostitute who had been abused and had
her nose cut off her name was kaya
guseva and he paid her to kill Rasputin
they waited until he visited his home in
Siberia and did not have the Royal Guard
around to protect him Kesava stabbed him
with a knife in the stomach and even
went so far as to pull the intestines
out of his body somehow miraculously he
survived this attack while he was in the
hospital Russia entered World War 1
Rasputin wrote to nicholas ii to try and
stop the fighting claiming that he had
visions of the country's demise he wrote
to the tsar we will all drown in blood
the Empress was trying to keep their
promise that no one in the Romanov
family would be responsible for his
death but a nephew in law Felix Yusupov
plotted to kill Rasputin before he could
ruin the whole country his plan was to
lure Rasputin with an offer that he
couldn't refuse he claims that his
gorgeous wife Irina was a nymphomaniac
and needed his healing touch to cure her
sex addiction
according to Yusupov he staged a party
at his home and invited Rasputin over
for dinner he laced all of the food and
drinks with cyanide after hours of
consuming enough poison to take down
herd of elephants Yusupov got tired of
waiting he pulled out a gun and shot
Rasputin in the heart
number one he rose from the dead in the
1997 DreamWorks animated movie Anastasia
rest Putin channels his demon powers to
rise from the dead to make sure that
every last member of the Romanov family
dies while this might seem ridiculous to
ink
a zombie in a story inspired by history
this is actually not too far off what
actually happens according to witnesses
Yusupov and his friends celebrated
rasputin's death after poisoning and
shooting him in the chest he seemed to
be dead but Yusupov felt paranoid so he
went to check on Rasputin's body it was
while he was doing this that Rasputin
opened his eyes he then began to run to
the courtyard this time though Rasputin
was shot multiple times including a
shots of the head so there was zero
chance of survival then the men beat him
with metal rods for good measure and
tied up his body in a large bag and
tossed him into the freezing cold river
after all of this the autopsy revealed
that there was water in his lungs which
meant that he was breathing even after
being shot in the head of course many
critics believe that Yusupov exaggerated
the story the curse that he put upon the
Romanov family really did come true
though during the communist revolution
all of them were rounded up and murdered
even the children people who loved the
royal family at Pope's that at least one
of the children survived but that's a
story for another day
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