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The Focus. Grigori Rasputin. Russian Mystic Favorite of the Czarina One Weird Dude The Mad Monk. 1869-1916 Raised in Siberia; had a vision of the Mother of God in a monastary Considered a magic healer, moved to the capital of St. Petersburg in 1903. Tsaravich Alexi a hemophiliac
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The Focus
Grigori Rasputin Russian Mystic Favorite of the Czarina One Weird Dude The Mad Monk
1869-1916 • Raised in Siberia; had a vision of the Mother of God in a monastary • Considered a magic healer, moved to the capital of St. Petersburg in 1903
Tsaravich Alexi • a hemophiliac • “cured” by Rasputin • Rasputin gained great influence over the Tsar and Tsarina.
Lover Boy??
Told the Tsar to take direct control of army in World War I. • Leadership was opposed • Plotted to murder him, and invited him to a party in the Moika Palace.
Legend says he was given poison enough to kill 5, but it didn’t kill him. • So, they shot him • and strangled him • beat him • wrapped him in a blanket and threw him in the icy river, where he drowned. • Body cremated, but he sat up during the cremation!!