who was Rasputin?

Answer 1

Rasputin lived in Russia during the time Nicholas II was tsar of Russia from 1894 to 1917. His life shows truth is stranger than fiction. Nicholas and his wife Alexandra had a child Alexis, who was heir to the Romanov throne. As an aside he had an impressive bearing and was highly intelligent. But Alexis suffered from hemophilla a disease in which the blood does not clot. In this time it was often fatal.

Now to Rasputin. He was a prophet of sorts, claiming to be religious, but was truly an unholy, holy man. But his pilgrimmages and prophecy made many in his native Russian land think he was holy. The doctors had great trouble with Alexis. On several occasions it appeared he was going to die; the doctors did him little good. Rasputin wrote the royal family saying he could save Alexis. They were desperate. This powerful beared man came and appeared to save Alexis, possibly through hypnosis.

Because of this Rasputin stayed at court. He was an immoral man and developed a terrible reputation in St. Petersburg, then capital of Russia. There was absolutely no improper conduct between Rasputin and Alexander, or her daughters, and Alexis. Now days I guess I would have to even mention this was also the case with Nicholas. The Romanovs were very moral good people. Please excuse this aside, but when I think of their brutal execution in the Urals, it saddens me, even brings a few tears. Rasputin was a crude man, but he acted decently with the royal family; Alexandra insisted upon it. Rasputin had trivial political power, but his standing and influence strictly came through his apparent ability to help Alexis through his hemophilla , whether it was coincidence or hypnosis.

Unfortunately, lies developed about Rasputin and Alexandra. He became a great political liability. He was not a fool however; he correctly foretold that World War I would cause the destruction of the Romanov family, and it did. Supporters of the monarchy invited him to a party, poisoned him and shot and bound him. He was thrown in a river, and eventually died. But even after all that had been done, when found finally dead, he had still managed to untie his hands!

This is a fascinating story, and Robert Massie in "Nicholas and Alexandra" is the best source on it.

Answer 2

He was supposedly the spiritual advisor to the Tsaritsa Alexandra of Russia. Rumours abounded that he was her lover and eventually he was murdered because it was felt that he had too power.
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (or Grigori Yefimovich Novyh) (Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин / Григорий Ефимович Новых) (January 22 [O.S. January 10] 1869–December 29 [O.S. December 16] 1916) was a Russian mystic who held an influence in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty. Rasputin played an important role in the lives of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son the Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia.

Rasputin has often been called the Mad Monk, although he was never a monk and made no secret of being married. Some considered him to be a "strannik" (religious pilgrim) or even a starets (ста́рец) ("elder", a title usually reserved for monk-confessors) and believed him to be a psychic and faith healer.

With good reason it has been argued that Rasputin, an unordained Russian mystic and holy man, helped discredit the tsarist government, leading to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. Contemporary opinions variously saw Rasputin as a saintly mystic, visionary, healer, and prophet, or as a debauched religious charlatan. Historians can find both to be true, but also much uncertainty: accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay, and legend

Answer 3

Rasputin was a Russian Orthodox monk who acquired great influence over Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra.

Answer 4

Rasputin was the Russian mad monk who had the ears of the czar but particularly the czarina of Russia after the so-called healing of her son's hemophilia. He was supposed to be a monk but supposedly led a disreputable life. Before the russian revolution would take place Rasputin would be assassinated.

Answer 5

According to legend, Gregoryi Rasputin was a well endowed monk, private counsellor the to the Tsar and family in Russia. See the URL below for pictures and information.

Answer 6

He was a monk and advisor to the last Russian royal family. He made a prediction stating "If I should die at the hand of one of tsar's family members then the royal family will soon fall after me. If I die from someone else or of natural causes the tsar's family shall stay in power" Rasputin was poisined by a cousin of the Tsar and, as we all know, the Russian royal family fell.

Answer 7

I am only posting the key things you need to know.

*Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin is has been described as one of the most scandalous figures in Russian history. A semi-literate peasant from Siberia, he arrived in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, and within a few years had become one of the most influential men in the Russian government.

*Rasputin arrived in St. Petersburg in the robes of a monk, as a self-styled 'holy man', or 'staretz', with a reputation as a reckless drunkard, a healer, and a womaniser. He had created his own 'theology' from different cults and sects, and believed that a person had to sin in order to become holy.

*Rasputin as a nickname ... it means 'dissolute' or 'debauched' in Russian

*Rasputin had, through friends of the Royal family, been invited to the palace, and it wasn't long before he became a confidante, telling stories to the children and giving Biblical advice to Alexandra. She became taken with him.

*News of Rasputin's death was celebrated, and the murderers were seen as heroes who had saved Russia from the influence of the German Alexandra and the mad monk Rasputin.

*Rasputin's corpse was exhumed and burned by a mob during the February Revolution of 1917

Answer 8

A Russian Monk who basically turned intro a sex crazed maniac

Answer 9

The Mad Monk..

Take a look..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin