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2. 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

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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

4. Tsaravich Alexi
a hemophiliac
“cured” by Rasputin
Rasputin gained great influence over the Tsar and Tsarina.

5. Big following among Aristocracy

6. Lover
Boy??

7. 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.

9. 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!!