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(russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин [ɡrɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪʨ rɐˈspʊtʲɪn])
(1869 – 1916)
(russian “mystic” who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the russian Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son the Tsarevich ‘Alexei’)
(born a russian peasant)
(‘Rasputin’ was wandering as a pilgrim in Siberia when he heard reports of Tsarevich Alexei’s illness)
(it was not publicly known in 1904 that Alexei had ‘haemophilia’, a disease that was widespread among European royalty descended from the British ‘Queen Victoria’, who was Alexei’s great-grandmother)
(when doctors could not help ‘Alexei’, the Tsaritsa looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, ‘Anna Vyrubova’, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer ‘Rasputin’ in 1905)
(he was said to possess the ability to heal through prayer and was indeed able to give the boy some relief, in spite of the doctors’ prediction that he would die)
(every time the boy had an injury which caused him internal or external bleeding, the Tsaritsa called on ‘Rasputin’, and the Tsarevich subsequently got better)
(this made it appear that Rasputin was effectively healing him)
(skeptics have claimed that he did so by ‘hypnosis’, which, in one study, actually has proven to relieve symptoms because it lowers stress levels and therefore diminishes the symptomatology of ‘haemophilia’)
(however, during a particularly grave crisis at ‘Spala’ in ‘Poland’ in 1912, Rasputin sent a telegram from his home in ‘Siberia’, which is believed to have eased the suffering)
(his pragmatic advice include suggestions such as “Don’t let the doctors bother him too much; let him rest”)
(this was thought to have helped Alexei to relax and allow the child’s own natural healing process some headroom)
(others have made the less likely suggestion that he used ‘leeches’ to attempt to treat the boy)
(as leech saliva contains ‘anticoagulants’ such as ‘hirudin’, this treatment would most likely have exacerbated his ‘haemophilia’ instead of providing relief)
(‘Diarmuid Jeffreys’ has pointed out that Rasputin’s healing suggestions included halting the administration of ‘aspirin’, a then newly-available (since 1899) pain-relieving (analgesic) “wonder drug”)
(as aspirin is also an ‘anticoagulant’, this intervention would have helped to mitigate the ‘hemarthrosis’ causing Alexei’s joints’ swelling and pain)
(the Tsar referred to Rasputin as “our friend” and a “holy man,” a sign of the trust that the family had placed in him)
(Rasputin had a considerable personal and political influence on ‘Alexandra’, and the Tsar and Tsaritsa considered him a ‘man of God’ and a ‘religious prophet’)
(Alexandra came to believe that God spoke to her through ‘Rasputin’)
(of course, this relationship can also be viewed in the context of the very strong, traditional, age-old bond between the ‘Russian Orthodox Church’ and the ‘Russian leadership’)
(another important factor was probably the Tsaritsa’s German-Protestant origin: she was definitely highly fascinated by her new ‘Orthodox outlook’ — the Orthodox religion puts a great deal of faith in the healing powers of prayer)
(on 16 December 1916, having decided that Rasputin’s influence over the ‘Tsaritsa’ had made him a far-too-dangerous threat to the empire, a group of nobles led by ‘Prince Felix Yusupov’ and the ‘Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich’ and the right-wing politician ‘Vladimir Purishkevich’, apparently lured Rasputin to the Yusupovs’ ‘Moika Palace’, by intimating that Felix’s wife, ‘Princess Irina’ would be present and receiving friends (in point of fact, she was away at the ‘Crimea’))
(determined to finish the job, ‘Yusupov’ became anxious about the possibility that Rasputin might live until the morning, leaving the conspirators no time to conceal his body)
(‘Yusupov’ ran upstairs to consult the others and then came back down to shoot Rasputin through the back with a revolver)
(Rasputin fell, and the company left the palace for a while)
(‘yusupov’, who had left without a coat, decided to return to get one, and, while at the palace, he went to check up on the body)
(suddenly, Rasputin opened his eyes and lunged at ‘Prince Yusupov’)
(when he grabbed ‘Prince Yusupov’ he ominously whispered in Yusupov’s ear “you bad boy” and attempted to strangle him)
(at that moment, however, the other conspirators arrived and fired at him)
(after being hit 3 times in the back, Rasputin fell once more)
(as they neared his body, the party found that, remarkably, he was still alive, struggling to get up)
(they clubbed him into submission and castrated him)
(after binding his body and wrapping him in a carpet, they threw him into the icy ‘Neva River’)
(he broke out of his bonds and the carpet wrapping him, but drowned in the river)
(3 days later, the body of Rasputin, poisoned, shot 4 times, badly beaten, and drowned, was recovered from the ‘Neva River’)
(an autopsy established that the cause of death was ‘drowning’)
(his arms were found in an upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the ice)
(it was found that he had indeed been poisoned, and that the poison alone should have been enough to kill him)
(there is a report that after his body was recovered, water was found in the lungs, supporting the idea that he was still alive before submersion into the partially frozen river)
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(died at ‘age 47’)
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