i need some info about rasputin and the russian revolution. who was the king and some info about him too?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

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Answer 2

The king was actually a Tsar. He was the last of the Tsars. Nicolas II i believe..i can't remember his full name though. Someone else could probably give you that. Anyways, this Tsar had already put Russia into war when Russia was already struggling with poverty. Now all the production was used to make gear for the war and some men didn't even get essential gear like helmets because there weren't enough resources to make it. Rasputin was famous for his visions and mystical healing powers. It was told that Rasputin healed the Tsar's son, a hemophiliac, by the sound of Rasputin's voice. The Tsar then started trusting Rasputin and soon people found out that the Tsar was listening to Rasputin who was considered a homeless and poor drunk at the time. This caused people to become angry and lose confidence in the Tsar. This brought forth an uprising from the people and they killed the Tsar and his family, along with Rasputin.

Answer 3

Rasputin was a 'holy man' or spiritual man who came from the Russian province of Tobolsk.

In 1904, the heir to the Russian throne, Alexei, was born with haemophilia - in which bleeding from a wound or cut will not stop bleeding. It was passed on from his mother, Alexandra, and her grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Rasputin was known to be a holy man - if of dubious character. The Russian Royal family - very religous and believing Rasputin to be a 'holy man' and a man of the people, accepted Rasputin to take care of little Alexei - the only son of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra.

While Rasputin was able to stop Alexei's bleeding (still disputed to this day how he did it), Rasputin had a very bad reputation for womanising and drunkenness - rumours which were reported - and ignored by Nicholas and Alexandra.

As Russia went into world war 1, the bad image of Nicholas II was made even worse by the antics of Rasputin - reported by secret police as holding out his Penis in a restaurant and talking with society women.

In 1916, members of the Romanov family - led by Prince Felix Yussupov, took matters into their own hands - and murdered Rasputin at a dinner party. In March 1917, Nicholas was deposed as Tsar, and murdered with his family in July 1918.

There are ALOT of books out there about it. Very interesting.

Answer 4

Rasputin was a lazy person all of his life. His father wanted him to take over the family farm but Rasputin would rather drink and molest women. By chance he managed to point out a horse thief once and people started to think that he has "powers", a thing that he encouraged. He picked up an interest for religion and mysticism and he later used that to get women. He married and had children but he left his wife and children behind and started to walk around in the area and preach instead. He wasn't homeless, he could always return to his family but he chose not to.

He was controversial as a "holy man", he drank way to much and he used sex as healing when he healed women. (Odd in it self since he never washed himself or his clothes. How the women could stand to be close to him is beyond me.) He was introduced to the Tsarina and she in her turn more or less pushed him on to the Tsar. He wasn't happy about it at first but he accepted Rasputin since it kept things calm in the household. Later on, after Rasputin had healed their son, he did turn to Rasputin for advice and help and that was his downfall. He went away to wage war and the Tsarina and Rasputin were left behind to rule the country.

The men that decided to murder him is said to have first poisoned him with cyanide, but he didn't die so they ended up shooting him and throwing him into the river. As he hit the water they saw him move and try to get out of the water but he died.

Answer 5

Rasputin
The translation of the name means "The Debauched One". That really sums him up.

The Czar of Russia's son had hemophilia. That is a disorder that prevents wounds from clotting. If he suffered even the slightest injury he might bleed to death. Rasputin offered his help and the child's mother, doing what all mothers do, wanted her son to get better no matter what.

Rasputin was a sexual deviant, preported witch, etc, however as Tsarevich Alexei's personal doctor, he had the Czar's support and could take as an official representative of the Czar.

Because of his.... habits.... he made an easy target for the revolutionaries. They could easily point to Rasputin as a symbol of the entire royal family. Furthermore it was rumored that Rasputin was evil. That he was in league with the Devil. After his assasination the rumors grew in light of what it took to kill him.

"However, it is generally agreed that on December 16, 1916, having decided that Rasputin's influence over the tsarina made him too dangerous to the empire, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov, and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (one of the few Romanov family members to escape the annihilation of the family) apparently lured Rasputin to the Yusupovs' Moika Palace, where they served him cakes and red wine laced with a large amount of cyanide. According to the legend, Rasputin was not affected, although there was enough poison to kill ten men. Maria Rasputin's account says that if her father ate poison, it was not in the cakes or wine, because after the attack by Guseva, he had hyperacidity, and avoided anything with sugar. She expressed doubt that he was poisoned at all.

Determined to finish the job — and now we are fully in the realm of narrative legend — Yusupov worried that Rasputin would live until morning, so that the conspirators wouldn't have time to conceal his body. He ran upstairs to consult with the others, then came back down and shot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell. The company then left the palace for a while. Yusupov, who had left without a coat, decided to return to grab one. While at the palace he went to check on the body, Rasputin opened his eyes, grabbed Felix by the throat, strangling him. Rasputin ominously whispered "you bad boy" in Yusupov's ear, and then threw him across the room and escaped. As he made his bid for freedom, the rest of the conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three times in the back, he fell. As they neared his body, they found he remarkably was still struggling and trying to get up so they clubbed him into submission; then, after wrapping his body in a sheet, they threw him into the icy Neva River. Three days later the body of Rasputin — poisoned, shot four times, and badly beaten — was recovered from the river and autopsied. The cause of death was drowning."