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What is the legend of rasputin?

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He was a monk that was brought to assist Tsar Nicholas II's son, Alexei. The son of the Tsar had hemophilia, and Rasputin was said to have mystical powers that could cure the young boy's disease.

Before and after being appointed to his position, Rasputin was rumoured to having an elaborate sex life. He was reported to having held orgies, and pictures were often taken of him surrounded by many women. These actions however did not conflict with his religious beliefs, for his religion believed in fulfilling the desires of men.

After being positioned to help Alexei, Rasputin gained political power as well. As the Tsar was away for assignments of WW1, the Tsarina was put in charge. She was greatly influenced by Rasputin due to his dedication to cure her son. Although the Tsarina was always announcing the political changes, Rasputin played a major part in the decision making process. This power that Rasputin was holding was well recognized by the Russian people, and in turn it became a cause of the 1917 February/ March Revolution.

Many accusations were made against him from rape to being a German spy during WWI. In the end he was stabbed, poisoned, shot, beaten and drowned by assassins who found he was difficult to kill when he survived attack after attack.

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Grigory Rasputin (1872-1916) was a Russian mystic and quasi-holy man who rose from peasant farmer to become adviser to Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra (1872-1918). Sometime in 1905 or shortly thereafter, Alexandra had come into contact with Rasputin, and, showing he was able to effectively treat Nicholas's and Alexandra's severely hemophiliac son Alexis (1904-1918), Rasputin quickly gained favor with the Russian rulers. But the prime minister and members of the legislative assembly, the Duma, could see Rasputin was a disreputable character, and they feared his influence on the tsar. They even tried to exile Rasputin, but to no avail.

By 1913, one year before the outbreak of World War I (1914-18), the Russian people had become acutely aware of Tsar Nicholas's weaknesses as a ruler-not only was his government subject to the influence of a pretender like Rasputin, but the events of Bloody Sunday had irreversibly marred the tsar's reputation. That year the Romanov dynasty was marking its 300th anniversary: members of the royal family had ruled Russia since 1613. But public celebrations, intended to be jubilant affairs, were instead ominous, as the crowds greeted Nicholas's public appearances with silence.

Russia's entry into World War I proved to be the beginning of the end for Nicholas, with Rasputin at the front and center of the controversy that swirled around the royal court. During the first year of fighting against Germany, Russia suffered one military catastrophe after another. These losses did further damage to the tsar and his ministers. In the fall of 1915, urged on by his wife, Nicholas left St. Petersburg and headed to the front to lead the Russian troops in battle himself. With Alexandra left in charge of government affairs, Rasputin's influence became more dangerous than ever. But in December 1916, a group of aristocrats put an end to it once and for all when, during a palace party, they laced Rasputin's wine with cyanide. Though the poison failed to kill Rasputin, the noblemen shot him and deposited his body in a river later that night. Nevertheless, the damage to Nicholas and Alexandra had already been done: By that time virtually all educated Russians opposed the tsar, who had removed many capable officials from government office, only to replace them with the weak and incompetent executives favored by Rasputin. The stage had been set for revolution.

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He supposedly healed the sick child of Russia's czar using special skills he got from god. Also, he supposedly survived assassination attempts using supernatural powers. All that "supposedly" stuff was the groundwork of his legend.

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was the monk that was hailed by the last czars' family for healing their son Alexei, because he had hemophilia, a disease in which you can't stop bleeding. Is best known for running the Russian empire during World War 1 which would aggravate the Russian people and would eventually lead to the downfall of the czar.

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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and adviser to the Russian Imperial family. The Romanov family believed him to be a psychic and faith healer. His power was presumed only and based on his position as spiritual adviser within the Russian Imperial Family.

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Foreign voyage by means of indicating division into parts, distribution, action in different directions, action in reverse, termination of action or state, intensification of action or state.

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He is a Siberian peasant monk in c. 1872 to 1916 he was murdered in 1916 and was born on 1872 his real name is Grigory Yefimovich Novykh.

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He was a healer.

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