Why were the Russian people worried about Rasputin?

Answer 1

Because Rasputin seemed to have a lot of influence on the czar and czarina and the people didn't trust him because he had inappropriate relations with many women.

The Russian people weren't worried about Rasputin. The aristocracy was worried about him. Rasputin was widely known and respected among peasants and Jews for helping the poor and for his healing abilities. When he began easing the pain and bleeding of the tsarevitch Alexei, he became a confidante to the Royal Family. The nobility didn't like a peasant being so close to the Tsar, especially because his advice of not getting involved in war, helping the poor by giving them land to farm, and giving equal rights to the Jews, were not in the best interests of the upper class. So, they spread rumors of mythical proportion about Rasputin's drunken behavior and womanizing (which unfortunately became accepted as history) to discredit him and, when that didn't work, they brutally murdered him. Of course, this didn't help their cause since, several months later, the Russian Revolution took everything from the nobles anyway. And, Rasputin had nothing to do with the revolution, which was really all about centuries of oppression and poverty for most of the Russian population. In fact, Rasputin had warned the Tsar that if he didn't do something to equalize the classes, there would be revolution. It is notable, too, that Rasputin never harmed a soul in his life, while the Romanovs (along with the rest of the extremely anti-Semitic aristocracy) were responsible for the senseless slaughter and torture of entire villages of Jews, simply because they were Jews. The Romanovs had blood on their hands; Rasputin did not. Even if all the stories of drinking and womanizing had been true, wouldn't that be more acceptable than brutally murdering thousands of people?

Answer 2

He was evil and probably possessed by the devil! The people who killed him poisoned him with enough cyanide to kill four men and shot him in the throat and heart. There was no blood and he actually got up and started chasing the people around the house. Eventually they bound him, beat him to a pulp with a lead pipe and threw him into a frozen river. The river was cold enough to kill a normal man almost instantly, but they found him with water in his lungs which means he was alive and trying to breath, and one hand untied! His body was recovered in a block of ice cut out of the river.

Answer 3

he was a freak...but if you want the longer answer, he was corrupting the royal family into making bad government decisions. the empress thought he had the power to heal her son...and because of that, he managed to sneak his way into impacting decisions the tsar made. so in general, the group of people that decided to kill him thought he was a threat to the empire.

The Russians didn't kill Rasputin. The peasants and poor loved him for the help he gave them. Thearistocracy killed Rasputin because they felt if someone should be next to the Tsar, it should be an aristocrat. The advice he gave to the Tsar was not to engage in war or killing of any kind and to give the severely oppressed Jews equal rights. To the nobility, this kind of liberal thinking was treason. It was the Tsar who made the bad decisions by not taking Rasputin's advice (showing that he didn't have the power over the Tsar that people thought he did). The Tsar's entire reign was marked by useless bloodshed from the day of his coronation. The aristocracy spread rumors of drunken behavior and womanizing to discredit Rasputin. When that didn't work, they ruthlessly murdered him. If Rasputin had been the problem in Russia, then the Revolution wouldn't have happened after he was killed. To put things in perspective, Rasputin never killed nor harmed a soul while the Romanovs sanctioned the slaughter, torture, or imprisonment of thousands of Jews - entire villages - simply because they hated Jews, and had vowed for centuries to eradicate that population. That certainly turns the tables on which one was evil.

Answer 4

Rasputin got very close to the Czar and his family. He had convinced them he could cure the hemophilia of their son and was soon embedded in the family. He influenced them in many ways and many feared he was helping to determine policy for the Czar.

Answer 5

Because he raped a nun

Answer 6

Because he pooed