Grigory Yefimovich Raspuddin was a favorite of Romanov priests, tsars, and empresses, nicknamed priests, prophets, gods, and monks.
Born in a small village in the Tyumen region of Siberia, Rasputin showed a rogue temperament when he was young, often doing things like stealing chickens, dogs, horses, and climbing women's walls. But such a scoundrel did something surprising in his thirties.
Rasputin suddenly put on the holy robes in the name of religion, became a priest, and he magically predicted a three-month drought somewhere in Russia. Suddenly transformed from a scoundrel to a priest, and even made such an alarmist prophecy, people who knew him well broke their mouths and scolded him, thinking that he was a "bumper".
However, when the drought did occur, those who had cursed him changed to flattery and worship him as gods. For a time, Rasputin's fame became famous, and once a person became famous, luck seemed to follow. In 1905, by chance, Raspuddin was taken to St. Petersburg by the Black Hundred.
Arriving in St. Petersburg, Raspuddin used his excellent eloquence, divination, and spells to easily win over a large number of nobles and become the guests of high society. It was also at this time that the dog of Tsar Nicholas II's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, suddenly fell ill, and many doctors were helpless at the time.
But strangely enough, when Rasputin picked up the dog, the dog inexplicably healed. It was precisely because of this incident that Rasputin's reputation spread to the palace and was heard by the Tsar and his wife. The Tsars, on the other hand, believed in the occult, liked to entertain priests, prophets, and so on, and usually liked to hold séance ceremonies.
Coincidentally, Alexei, the son of the Tsar and his wife, suffered from hemophilia. This is a disease that has spread a lot in European countries and is very difficult to treat. In order to cure Alexei's illness, the Tsar and his wife invited many famous doctors, but they were not cured. In this case, Rasputin appeared.
In 1907, when Alexei was once again ill, the anxious Empress persuaded the Tsar and summoned Rasputin to the palace to see if he could cure her son's illness. Amazingly, even the imperial court doctors and the world's famous doctors could not cure the disease, but Rasputin was cured with a small packet of medicine powder and prayer.
A few days later, Alexei was back in health. Curiously, however, after his recovery, Alexei developed a serious sense of dependence on Raspuddin, and as long as Raspuddin was in the palace for a day, he was healthy and lively; but as soon as Raspuddin left the palace, his body would become emaciated.
Therefore, for the sake of Alexei's body, the Tsarist couple left Raspuddin in the palace. Over time, however, Rasputin grew ambition to interfere with and take control of the Romanov dynasty. For this reason, by 1915, rasputin and the tsar had a bad relationship, and Rasputin was even expelled from the palace.
As soon as Rasputin left, Alexeima had a nosebleed and his body deteriorated. Seeing this, the queen could only turn to Rasputin, who deliberately delayed it by two days. When Rasputin stepped into the palace again, Alexei immediately improved again. Seeing this, the Tsar finally had to give in and made him the "Tsar's Lamp Bearer".
The tsar's submission made Rasputin more arrogant and allowed him to enter and leave the inner palace freely. Rasputin's fame was so disconcerting that he made him swim among the nobility. Rasputin controls a hypnotic skill, and when he stares at others with his big blue eyes, it seems to be discharging, fascinate. At the same time, Rasputin would use his low, seductive voice to make people feel frightened or sleepy.
What is even more peculiar is that Raspuddin's hypnosis is particularly effective for women, as long as it is a woman who is targeted by him, the other party will be fascinated by him, and there are few times when they lose their hands. Because of this, in St. Petersburg, almost all the women of the upper nobility had a different relationship with Rasputin.
Moreover, Raspuddin had a special hobby, as long as it was a woman with whom he had a first relationship, he would cut off a lock of the girl's hair for collection. Later, when the house where he lived was demolished, boxes of hair were dug out in the garden.
In order to further gain the trust of the Tsarist couple, Raspuddin made many special predictions in addition to curing Alexei's illness. One day, for example, Rasputin approached the Queen and told her not to let her child into the children's room because he saw the impending disaster. Sure enough, a few days later, a huge chandelier in the children's room fell from the ceiling. In addition, Alexei will be better after his 13th birthday.
These prophecies of Raspuddin earned him the absolute trust of the Tsarist couple. During the Tsar's conquest, Raspuddin changed 6 ministers of the interior and 3 foreign ministers in just two years. Moreover, Rasputin's substitution was unprincipled, based solely on his preference for the chancellor's wife. It's like changing to an eighty-year-old minister, Goromekin, just because he loves to eat potatoes made by Mrs. Goromekin.
In December 1916, Nicholas II, who was on the front lines, received a letter from Rasputin predicting that he would be killed before January 1917 and that within three months of his death, the Romanov dynasty would collapse.
On December 29, 1916, five nobles, led by Prince Yusupov, carried out a series of assassinations on Raspuddin. First, Yusupov's wife Irina was used as bait to lure Raspuddin to come and give him 8 pieces of potassium cyanide cake and a bottle of Madeira mixed with potassium cyanide, but Raspuddin did not respond and did not appear to be poisoned.
To this end, Yusupov fired a shot at Raspuddin and injured the lobe of his lungs. Despite this, Rasputin did not die, but broke free and ran to the courtyard. Seeing that Raspuddine was about to run, Prisciković chased him out and fired five shots at Raspuddine, one of which hit him in the head.
But when the crowd dragged Raspuddine into the house, Rasputin woke up again. Yusupov then hit Rasputin's temple with a heavy object and threw him into the ice cave on the Neva River with the crowd. The next day, when Raspuddin was found dead, the forensic doctor, after an autopsy, concluded that Rasputin had drowned.
That is, if It were not for Yusupov knocking him unconscious, Raspuddin might still be alive. Finally, the Empress built a tomb for him in the Imperial Village and prepared to build a monastery on it. Later, Raspuddin's body was found by soldiers in the imperial village, exhumed and transported to Petrograd for public display.
Because Rasputin's life was extremely absurd, he had an unclear relationship with the upper noblewomen. After his death, his "lower limbs" were preserved and displayed in a museum in St. Petersburg.