Why did Czarina Alexandra look to Gregory Rasputin?

Answer 1

Because he could heal Alexi

He couldn't heal the tsarevitch, Alexei's hemophilia, but he could help stop the bleeding and pain at each occurrence, and predicted that by the age of 21, he would be relieved of the illness. Anna Vyrubova, the Tsarina's lady in waiting, writes in her memoirs that as Alexei grew older, the incidents of illness were farther apart and less severe, until he was killed at the age of 13, along with the rest of his family.

The royal family also liked Rasputin because he was a spiritual mentor to them. He prayed with them and encouraged them to have faith in hard times. Many biographers have written that he could often relieve the anxieties of people and they felt greatly comforted after talking with him.

He was not the evil man the nobility painted him as. They hated him because he was against joining World War i (he did not believe war was a solution), and because he was a proponent of equal rights for Jews and other severely oppressed minorities. Russia was a highly anti-Semitic society and even had organizations whose goal was to eradicate the Jewish population. The nobles feared that Rasputin would get the Tsar to upset their precious class system, based on oppression of others, so they spread rumors of drunken orgies and nasty deeds, to get the Tsar to kick out Rasputin. When that didn't work (because the Tsar knew they were lying when one report of an orgy was at a time and day when Rasputin was actually at the palace with the Tsar), the aristocracy killed him.

Answer 2

The Tsarina looked to Gregory Rasputin/Novy because her son was born with Hemophilia, a disease where the blood has no clotting factor and was incurable then, and he could die from a bump of bruise. This distressed Alexandra and by the time Alexi was 7, she was really paranoid. Then Nicholas got sick and a staret sent an icon and said that he would be where he was needed. 1 year later, Alexi was about to die and then he arrived from Siberia. He saved Alexi again and again, and Alexandra went slightly mad and he looked after her, until he was poisoned, shot and drowned.