Was Rasputin, the most mysterious figure of any prominence ever ?

Question

I am fasinated by Russia & also its history

Answer 1

Rasputin (meaning "debauched one") was dirty, a drunkard and a lecher in addition to being a starets ("elder", or spiritual adviser), but he did manage in some way to alleviate the pains of the Tsar's son, the Tsarevich Alexis, who had haemophilia. It was this remarkable ability that brought him close to the royal family, as Alexis's mother, the Tsarina Alexandra, would have tried anything to help her son. Their closeness gave rise to rumours of theTsarina and Rasputin having an affair and all kinds of nastiness, including treason.

Some believe he had hypnotic powers which he used to calm the young Alexis; others believed that he could heal. Whatever the case, he did manage to do better than the doctors of the time and stop the boy's bleeding.

It took several attempts to kill him, too:
http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/rasputin.htm

Although Rasputin told the Tsar that the war would be won if he (the Tsar) took control of the army, which was a dreadful mistake, he also left a letter:

"I write and leave behind me this letter at St. Petersburg. I feel that I shall leave life before January 1. I wish to make known to the Russian people, to Papa, to the Russian Mother and to the Children, to the land of Russia, what they must understand. If I am killed by common assassins, and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, will have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia. But if I am murdered by boyars, nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled with my blood, for twenty-five years they will not wash their hands from my blood. They will leave Russia. Brothers will kill brothers, and they will kill each other and hate each other, and for twenty-five years there will be no nobles in the country."

It is still being discussed how he managed to "heal" the Tsarevich.

Answer 2

In the Romanov Family yes. Only by the Tsar and Tsarina. The rest of the Romanov's despised him and considered him a charlatan and a letch.
In fact a member of the Romanov family shot, poisoned, bludgeoned him with a chain and then wrapped the chain around him and pushed him through a hole in the ice at the Volga.
Know what? Rasputin drowned. Hows that for perseverance?

Answer 3

Rasputin to say the least was a Madman and he latched on to a desperate mother who was looking for a cure for her haemophiliac son Alexei.
I have read a book titled "The Last Tsar The Life and Death of Nicholas II" by Edvard Radzinsky which is quite interesting.

Answer 4

There was no mystery about him. The only mystery was that the Russian Royals allowed him to be any where near to them, let alone their young son. Rasputin was an immoral man who preyed upon anyone with money. He was a drunkard and low-life womaniser, who bed ed anyone and everyone that he could. He certainly seemed to have the `gift of the gab` and managed to regularly talk himself into and out of all manner of situations and crooked deals. He was a `no body` who got himself talked about, and as always with `talk` it be came added to and embroidered upon until it was hard to tell fact from fiction.

Answer 5

Hi there. Probably not, is the answer. We know quite a lot about Rasputin, including a claim that he belonged to a religious sect that believed you had to be forgiven to enter heaven. therefore, sin a lot and be forgiven a lot, to achieve the nest chance!
Somebody like Wat Tyler appeared from absolutely nowhere to lead the peasanrs revolt and was murdered a few weeks later - so all we know about him is from those few short weeks.
It WAS a good song, though...
Cheers, Steve.

Answer 6

Yes and No, it depends on how you wish to experiemce ,mysterious