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GRIGORI YEFIMOVICH RASPUTIN

AN UNINTENTIONAL DESTROYER OF TSARISM?. GRIGORI YEFIMOVICH RASPUTIN. RASPUTIN: THE MAD MONK THE BLACK MONK. CHARACTER. Powerful personality Drunkard Womaniser Sympathetic to ordinary people Contemporaries saw him as a: seer, mystic, healer,psyhic. EARLY LIFE. Obscure – largely unknown

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GRIGORI YEFIMOVICH RASPUTIN

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  1. AN UNINTENTIONAL DESTROYER OF TSARISM? GRIGORI YEFIMOVICH RASPUTIN

  2. RASPUTIN: THE MAD MONKTHE BLACK MONK

  3. CHARACTER • Powerful personality • Drunkard • Womaniser • Sympathetic to ordinary people • Contemporaries saw him as a: seer, mystic, healer,psyhic

  4. EARLY LIFE • Obscure – largely unknown • Born 1862 or sometime thereafter • Born into a Siberian peasant family The Most Evil Men in History http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o6B_aq5-2s&feature=related Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvTRh9C2GxY Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAUQnh8-4o&feature=related Part 3

  5. BELIEFS • Sin was one way to gain salvation • Hostile to the Duma, firm believer in the monarchy • Opposed to war in 1914 • Claimed to speak to the ordinary people from whom he came

  6. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ROMANOVS • November 1905 Nicholas’ diary records the meeting of a Father Grigori and his help in stopping Alexis’ bleeding • Influence on Alexandra grew, seen as the only person who could prolong Alexis’ life • His scandalous behaviour was ignored • Held no formal position in government but had influence on government appointments • Influence grew after assassination of Stolypin, advised Alexandra when Nicholas left for war

  7. HELPED TO DISCREDIT THE TSAR • Boasted of his influence (which was probably less than his contemporaries believed it to be) • Considerable influence on Alexandra • Partly responsible for poor appointments after 1915 • Suggested his murder was the first step to revolution because it showed respect for the Tsar’s wishes had disappeared

  8. DEATH • Poisoned, shot and then eventually drowned by disgruntled aristocrats in December 1916 • Body buried at royal residence at Tsarkoe Selo • 1917 body disinterred and burnt • Details about his murder are confusing and contradictory

  9. ASSESSING RASPUTIN • Listen To The Boney M song “Rasputin” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjdZKfumEI Colour code the lyrics Red = untrue Blue = true fact Green = debated truth • Complete the Resource tasks on Rasputin

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