There is an old saying: "When a country is going to die, there will be demons", and on the eve of the fall of Tsarist Russia, there was also a "demon", who was called "immortal demon monk" Rasputin. Rasputin was a scoundrel in his youth, not only lascivious and debauched, but also a horse thief, so he was called "Rasputin" (meaning a lascivious and debauched person) by the villagers.
In his 30s, he "converted" to the Orthodox Church, and regarded himself as a "god man" and a "prophet", spreading prophecies everywhere and performing medical skills to defraud money, during which he became famous for predicting a March drought in a certain place in Russia and curing the dog of Grand Duke Nicholas, which also created conditions for him to treat Crown Prince Alexei in the future.
Crown Prince Alexei of the Russian Empire suffered from hemophilia, which was so severe at the time of the attack that even the court doctors could not do anything about it. In 1907, Crown Prince Alexei fell ill again, and when everyone was helpless, the Empress persuaded the Tsar to summon Rasputin to the palace with the attitude of trying it out, but he did not expect that he only fed the prince a small packet of medicine powder and prayed for a while, and the prince's illness was miraculously better. In this way, Rasputin gained the trust of the Tsarist couple, and the photo is a group photo of Rasputin and the Tsarist family.
He was given the title of "Tsar's Lamp Bearer" by the Tsar and had free access to the palace, so he began to use his influence to interfere in the government, during which he was expelled from the palace because of his relations with the Tsar, but was soon invited into the palace again. Because after his departure, Crown Prince Alexei fell ill again, the Empress asked him for help, but he deliberately arrived two days late, and the condition worsened, but as soon as Rasputin appeared, the Crown Prince's illness was better again. From then on, the Tsar gave him three points in everything he did.
At this time, Rasputin's power was expanding day by day, and he even blatantly interfered in the politics of the DPRK. During World War I, the Tsar's personal conquests, the power of the country fell into the hands of the Empress, and the Empress obeyed Rasputin's words, which brought his power to the peak. During this period, he was in a mess in the internal affairs of Tsarist Russia, and many officials and nobles were deposed for offending him.
This further destabilized the already sharply contradictory Russian Empire, where angry princes and nobles impeached Rasputin to the Empress, but the Empress indulged in trust in Rasputin and even said: "The saint is always slandered, and people hate him because we love him." No wonder the Empress said this, because many noble ladies of the upper class at that time were very infatuated with Rasputin, and he even slept with all the noble maidens with his superb hypnosis.
Rasputin's actions eventually infuriated the royal family and officials of the Russian Empire, and on December 29, 1916, Prince Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitry, Right-wing Russian Duma Mpurprikvich, Yusupov's close friend, Lieutenant Suhokkin, and a doctor set a trap at Yusupov Palace in Petrograd and decided to get rid of Rasputin.
Prince Yusupov, in the name of his beautiful wife, invited Rasputin to his home, and after giving him 8 cakes mixed with potassium cyanide and drinking a bottle of madeira with potassium cyanide, Rasputin did not respond (those doses were enough to poison five people). Yusupov fired a shot at Rasputin, but just as the crowd was about to dispose of the body he woke up and ran away, so Priskovich chased him out and fired three shots, one of which hit him in the head, but he woke up again. The crowd knocked him unconscious and threw himself into an ice cave in the Neva River, and even then he struggled underwater for 8 minutes.