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In October of 1906, the Tsarina was afflicted because of his son Tsesarevich Alexei suffered hemophilia B.It was known that t only person that could have the ability of healing through prayer, Gregory Rasputin. He managed to calm the Tsarina and gave them hope that his child was going to survive. The 10 of September Rasputin claimed the miracle healing of the child; this opened the opportunity for him to receive all kinds of privileges no one else had, and free access to the Imperial family producing unconformity in the nobility.

Rasputin became an influential factor in the Russian politics, and strange incidents happen in his life that gave him a more dark mysterious connotations for the press( incidents with ladies of the nobility, his …show more content…

The Tsar did not know what to do, so to lift the moral of the armies he took the command of the armies. He left the government on the hands of the Tsarina and her adviser Rasputin . This divided the government between The Tsar and the Tsarina ( pro peace) influenced by Rasputin .Russia could not handle the decisions that the Tsar was taking so from 1905 the Council of Ministers decided to bring the government under control of the Duma. On November Alexander Trepov (prime minister) promote a parliamentarian system , but never accomplish because of his destitution ( because of Rasputin )… many try to destitute Rasputin, people start blaming Rasputin of the loss of the war in the east. Rasputin was assassinated by the aristocracy died on December 17 of 1916. (His dead was in itself a whole history… where I am totally persuaded that evil forces where …show more content…

The food prices started rapidly increasing and it got so bad that the items of basic necessity were unaffordable for many people. Riots and strikes erupt over Petrograd ,because the Russians lost all faiths in the leadership ability of the

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