The Life and Death of Grigori Yefimovic Rasputin

After being poisoned, beaten, shot and thrown into a the river Neva Grigori Rasputin must have wondered if he actually had powers beyond mortal men when he stated “When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.”

The Life and death of Grigori Yefimovic Rasputin was nothing short of mysterious. Rasputin was a Russian shahman famed for the impact he is said to have hadd over Russian Tsar Nicholas II’s family. Actually, he is thought to have held a great deal of inspiration over the Tsar’s wife Alexandra, as well as on their son Alexei’s hemophilia treatment (a disease that the royal family did not want disclosed). His Influence was believed to be the downfall of the Autocracy as it was only a few months after Rasputins death, before the Tsar abdicated and no more than a year before the Tsar and his family was murdered.

Grigori Yefimovic Rasputin was born in 1869 and died in 1916. He was a Russian sorcerer, so to speak, who was prominent during Russia’s Romanov dynasty. He was referred to as the mad monk, though he was not a monk, but a religious pilgrim. In addition, he was believed to be a faith healer. Although historians view him as a scapegoat, he is one of the most debatable individual or person in the twentieth century history. Rasputin played a small, but a crucial part in the downfall of the Romanov dynasty, which led to the establishment of the Soviet Union after Bolshevik victory. Rasputin participated in a significant role in the lives of the Nicholas II, his wife, their son and T...

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