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Russian Mystic Favorite of the Czarina One Weird Dude The Mad Monk 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.
Big following among Aristocracy
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!!