Did rasputin try to kill Anastasia of Russia?

Answer 1

Rasputin had a bad reputation and was much maligned by the nobility who spread many rumors about him that, unfortunately, became history. While he did enjoy dancing and partying, he was primarily a man of God, a healer and pro-peace. He was hated also because he helped, along with his Jewish secretary Simanovitch, many many Jews who were severely oppressed and deprived of rights at that time. While the memoirs of his secretary do contain a lot of court gossip, what is true is that Rasputin was very against war and advised the tsar not to fight other countries. People say he 'meddled' in Russian politics, though what he was trying to do was have cabinet ministers appointed who were both for peace and for restoring equal rights to Russian peasants and Jews (who were slaughtered in their towns, in raids called pogroms). He was also a healer with a great knowledge of Tibetan and Siberian herbs, which he often used to help the young tsarevitch. He was very loyal to the imperial family, spoke to the children in a fatherly way, and wanted nothing more than for Nicholas to be a tsar of all of the Russian people, not just the nobles. He was not at all the evil individual portrayed in films and Cartoons. In fact, he even forgave and refused to press charges against those who made attempts on his life, because he was all about forgiveness and love. Read the two biographies his daughter Marya Rasputin wrote (not the current novel out there - a fictionalized account of his daughter). And the Russian historian, Edvard Radzinsky, in his book, "The Rasputin Files", even admits that Rasputin helped many Jews and disenfranchised people gain the homes, educations, jobs, and other basic rights that they needed to survive.