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now he had the piercing stare of a viper
was seen as a sexual deviant and some
call them the devil or the Antichrist
and Felix Yusupov a Russian prince an
aristocrat knew he must be stopped it
would take poisoned wine and a bullet to
the head followed by a plunge into the
icy neva river to at last in the life of
one of Russia's most controversial
figures the mad monk otherwise known as
the unkillable Rasputin Grigory
Yefimovich Novica was born on January
21st 1869 to a family of peasants in
pokrovskoye a tiny village in Siberia
near the to River his mother had seven
other kids before Rasputin came along
but some died as babies or during
childhood Rasputin siblings who survived
past childhood were named Dmitri Maria
and Varvara there might have been a
ninth daughter named Theo dia though his
dead yefim was a peasant farmer with a
side gig of being a diplomatic courier a
fancy way of describing transporting
people and goods between Tobolsk his
small town and to mean a larger nearby
city Rasputin was considered a strange
kid growing up people in his village
thought he could have visions and heal
people one record details how a young
rasputin's was
sick in bed and a group of peasants came
to see if he could point out who of them
had stolen a horse he rose up out of bed
and pointed to the one who was guilty
turns out he had pointed to the right
guy because the accused was seen taking
the horse out later that night according
to the book Rasputin's short life while
this astonished the villagers people
were wary of him thinking he might be
possessed by the devil he also had the
ability to calm hysterical animals
according to the crime books Big Ideas
simply explained at this time in his
youth though he was more notoriously
known for stirring up trouble being
accused of getting into fistfights
drinking too much and sexually
assaulting girls in the village he made
Pross kava few Drona dubrovina when he
was just a teenager exactly what age
though is unclear and they had four kids
but he cheated on her with women from
all classes of society from prostitutes
to women of higher social standing he
stumbled upon a monastery at Vicario
when he was 23 and trained to be a monk
eventually failing to become one though
it was here that he also taught himself
how to read and write and eventually
went on his own way he became a wanderer
who roamed two holy cities in Jerusalem
and Greece subsisting off of donations
his nomadic existence got him the names
Stronach which roughly translates to
wanderer of religious or pilgrim and
Russia
he eventually encountered the Callisto
flagellants sect a breakaway of the
Russian Orthodox Church this sect was a
cult that believed in achieving holy
passion lessness or exhausting
themselves through physical activities
like praying dancing and spinning they
also did this with sex partaking in
orgies Rasputin simply called all these
activities driving out sin with sin his
wanderings also took him to st.
Petersburg Russia and this was where his
fame took off after gaining attention
for his religious zeal and charisma from
the Russian Orthodox clergy and members
of the imperial family they introduced
him to czar nicholas ii and his wife
Alexandra their son Alexei who was heir
to the throne had hemophilia a
hereditary condition that causes a
person's blood to not clot normally and
then leads to excessive bleeding this
disease can lead to death if not treated
or if it starts in the brain
Zarina was panicked that he died before
assuming his position Rasputin came to
the boy's aides and reportedly spoke
some prayers was at his bedside and
Alexei recovered despite the doctors
grim prognosis that he likely
died from his condition in addition to
being a Lexie's healer he also served as
the family spiritual advisor being
called their holy man and was revered as
a prophet Alexandra went so far as to
say she believed God spoke to her
through Rasputin's rasputin's rendevouz
with the royal family did not go without
rumours and scandal there was talk that
there was an affair happening between
Rasputin's and Alexandra but historian
Douglas Smith who wrote the book
Rasputin faith power and the twilight of
the Romanovs dismisses these saying in
an interview there is no truth to the
stories about rest mutant in the Empress
Alexandra having been lovers Alexander
was quite a prudish Victorian woman
there's no way and no proof that she
would ever have looked the rest butan
for sex
Smith further thought that people
spreading those rumors were mainly
politically motivated one side that
wanted revolution and the overthrow of
the Romanovs spread those stories to
make the royal family look corrupt while
the other half thought their dealings
with Rasputin's were dangerous and that
Rasputin himself was dangerous Smith
also has his thoughts on what happened
during rasputin's so-called healing
sessions with Alexei he believed that
instead of Rasputin having mystical
healing powers his presence by the boys
bedside influenced him to get better
other historians think his mother being
calmed by his presence in turn made
Alexi calm which had a healing effect
then some postulate that him deterring
the boy from being seen by doctors
helped because they'd given him aspirin
which would thin his blood and worsen
his condition Rasputin served as a
Lexie's healer again in 1912 after he
developed a hemorrhage in his thigh and
groin regions when he was on a carriage
ride and it jolted this caused him to
develop a hematoma that resulted in pain
and fever certain this would kill him
his mother asked anivia Bova a Russian
lady in waiting and right-hand woman to
czarina Alexandra to send rescue tainha
telegram while he was in Siberia with a
message to simply pray for her son
Rasputin wrote back shortly after
receiving it assuring Zarina that God
has seen your tears and heard your
prayers do not grieve the little one
will not die do not allow the doctors to
bother him too much and now we get to
the juicy details of iris Putin was
dubbed unkillable the first
single-handed attempt at killing him was
by a 33 year old peasant woman named
kiona guseva on July 12th 1914 after
reading about him in the newspaper she
came to the conjecture that he was the
antique
and a false prophet she stabbed him in
the stomach outside his home in
petrushka leaving a 14 inch long gash
that exposed his organs Rasputin had had
a local doctor perform an emergency
surgery on him to save his life
the next assassination attempt which we
alluded to earlier was simply because
Felix Yusupov wanted Rasputin out of the
picture for his own game and here's why
Rasputin's death meant tsar nicholas ii
would have the opportunity to make the
royal family more powerful again because
he'd be more influenced by his family
and take their advice Rasputin gone also
meant that he could return from being
away in the military and live in st.
Petersburg to rule it was December 30th
1916 Yusupov invited Rasputin over and
fed him cakes and wine that were
poisoned with potassium cyanide Rasputin
was then shot three times one of which
was a close shot to the forehead and
another in his heart you so puffs a book
a memoir recounts the experience like
this the devil who was dying of poison
who had a bullet in his heart must have
been raised from the dead by the powers
of evil there was something appalling
and monstrous in his diabolical refusal
to die it took days for police to find
his body because the river had frozen to
sub-zero temperatures Rasputin's legacy
and political influence stretched far
beyond his death tsar nicholas ii
decision to go to the frontlines was
mainly at Rasputin's behest because he
was convinced that the russian army
would be nothing without his leadership
in battle
nicholas proved to be inapt at war so
rasputin's was wrong in his conjecture
Rasputin's death also meant the Romanov
dynasty faith was extinction Russia took
an economic hit because the 15 million
men who went to war meant a dip in their
workforce and the food to subsist the
soldiers could have gone to the citizens
Rasputin had been dead for over a year
by the time of the Russian Revolution in
1917 but his influence was still strong
the royal family's influence meanwhile
was in complete shambles they were
imprisoned for six months on house
arrest
while the Bolshevik government that had
taken over figured out what to do with
them six months later the royal family
was killed by firing squad Rasputin what
was seemingly just a small peasant ended
up being a force to be reckoned with and
an influential part of history and as
you've gathered from today's episode
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