Rasputin his biography. Who is Rasputin? Biography, interesting facts about Grigory Rasputin

FUCKED LIFE. A SECRET HIDDEN FOR 100 YEARS

The villainous murder of G.E. Rasputin was preceded by inhumane slander and lies, the purpose of which was to discredit the Royal Family, deprive the country of strong monarchical power, and weaken Russia, which by that time occupied a leading place in political and economic life among world powers.

In our time, interest in the royal theme, in the personality of G.E. Rasputin does not fade away. More and more publications are appearing where events and personalities are presented in the light of truth. We present to your attention one of such publications "Grigory Rasputin: slandered life, slandered death". The author of the article is a Russian philologist and writer Tatiana Mironova .

Identity falsification - creating a double

Forgery of historical documents, lies, with reference to “eyewitness accounts” are long-practiced, tested techniques of history falsifiers.<…>

Grigory Rasputin was hated by those who hated the Tsar. They aimed at Grigory Efimovich in order to get into the Royal Family, into the Autocracy itself. Blatant slander against the Elder and falsification of his personality were used. Intelligent society in Russia was more willing to listen to rumors; they believed them even more than newspapers. Even Admiral Kolchak condemned the Sovereign for Rasputin, although Kolchak himself never saw the Elder, and here is a typical example: while he was serving in the Pacific Fleet, the admiral, according to him, barely managed to suppress the officer’s revolt in response to the spread rumor that Rasputin arrived in Vladivostok and wants to visit the warships. Kolchak himself was indignant at Rasputin for this intention, but it soon became clear that the rumor was false, Grigory Efimovich was not in Vladivostok. But Kolchak, by his own admission, remained disgusted with the Elder after this incident (1).

The French ambassador Maurice Paleologue also describes Rasputin hostilely, based only on St. Petersburg rumors and gossip, recounting all sorts of fictions, although he himself saw Grigory Efimovich only once while visiting Countess L. And the Frenchman could not say anything bad about this meeting, he only had time to look at “a man with piercing eyes,” who, looking at the arrogant Frenchman, regretfully said, “There are fools everywhere,” and left. The paleologist did not attribute this phrase to himself, so he retold it with chronicle accuracy.

Who and why was Grigory Efimovich hated? Who and what did the elder interfere with? Why was he hated?

In 1912, when Russia was ready to intervene in the Balkan conflict, Rasputin begged the Tsar on his knees not to engage in hostilities, and, of course, prayed to God to incline the Tsar’s heart to this. According to Count Witte, “he (Rasputin) indicated all the disastrous results of the European fire and the arrows of history turned differently. War was averted" (2). The powers of Rasputin’s prayer were so feared that the warmongers, in which it was necessary to drag Russia into, so that, in the words of Engels, “crowns would fly into the mud,” so, the warmongers, in a new attempt to fan the flames of world carnage, decided to kill Grigory Efimovich on the same day and the same hour as the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, whose death was the prepared pretext for the outbreak of war. Rasputin was then seriously wounded and, while he was unconscious and could not pray, the Tsar was forced to begin general mobilization in response to Germany’s declaration of war on Russia.

The enemies of Russia sensed and understood the entire threat posed by Rasputin to their destructive anti-autocratic, anti-Russian plans. No wonder Purishkevich, on behalf of all those who hated Autocratic Russia, shouted from the Duma rostrum about the main obstacle to the overthrow of the Throne: “As long as Rasputin is alive, we cannot win” (3).

And Grigory Efimovich Rasputin was a humble man of prayer, convinced that all his grace-filled power was faith in the Lord of those who asked for his prayers. Purely earthly paths led Grigory Efimovich in 1904 to St. Petersburg to ask for permission to build the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in his native village of Pokrovskoye. Then the Heir-Tsarevich had just been born, and the need for hourly prayer to God to save the child’s life was clearly outlined to his Royal parents.<…>

In little Alexei Nikolaevich, given to the Royal Family through the prayers of St. Seraphim of Sarov, all the hopes of the Sovereign for the well-being of his beloved people of Russia were concentrated. He was truly a “ray of sunshine” - a kind and bright child, a great consolation to the Family, who trembled at the thought that he might fade away. Through the prayers of the saints, the gifted baby could only be saved by the prayer of the saint, especially since his illness - hemophilia - was painful, suddenly appeared, very dangerous, but not inevitably fatal, and already the sons of Tsarevich Alexei would have been an absolutely healthy generation. And the Lord sent a prayer book to the Royal Family about the health of their son.

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin is presented to the Emperor in October 1905. Grigory Efimovich, according to a special revelation from God to him, even at the first meeting with the Tsar and Empress, realized his special destiny and devoted his entire life to serving the Tsar. He leaves his wanderings, lives for a long time in St. Petersburg, gathering around him people faithful to the Sovereign, and most importantly, at the slightest danger to the little one, he is nearby, because his prayer for the Tsarevich appeared, perhaps unexpectedly for himself, pleasing to God, heard by Him. And this actual prayerful intercession for the Tsarevich was for the Tsar a visible sign that in the most difficult times of his reign, a spiritual assistant to the Tsar’s service had been sent from God. As the Tsar’s sister V.K. said. Olga Alexandrovna, the Tsar and the Queen “saw in him a peasant whose sincere piety made him an instrument of God” (4, p. 298). And honest investigator V.M. Rudnev, who was a member of the Extraordinary Commission of the Provisional Government, noted in his official note on the results of the investigation that “Their Majesties were sincerely convinced of the holiness of Rasputin, the only real representative and prayer book for the Sovereign, His Family and Russia before God” (5, p.153 ).

There are reliable facts, confirmed by many witnesses, that Rasputin saved Tsarevich Alexei from death. In 1907, when the Heir was three years old, he suffered a severe hemorrhage in his leg in Tsarskoye Selo Park. They called Grigory Efimovich, he prayed, the hemorrhage stopped. In October 1912, in Spala - the royal hunting grounds of Poland - Alexei Nikolaevich, after a severe injury, was so hopeless that doctors Fedorov and Rauchfus began to insist on the publication of bulletins about the health of the Heir. But the Empress did not rely on doctors, but only on the mercy of God. Rasputin was at that time in his homeland, in Pokrovskoye, and at the request of the Empress, Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova sent a telegram to Pokrovskoye. Soon the answer came: “God looked at your tears. Do not worry. Your Son will live." An hour after receiving the telegram, Alexei Nikolaevich’s condition improved sharply, and the mortal danger had passed.

In 1915, the Emperor, having gone to the Army, took Alexei Nikolaevich with him. On the way, the Tsarevich began to have a nosebleed. The train was returned because the Heir was bleeding. He lay in the nursery: “A small waxen face, bloody cotton wool in his nostrils.” Grigory Efimovich was called. “He arrived at the palace and went with his parents to Alexei Nikolaevich. According to their stories, he approached the bed, crossed the Heir, told his parents that there was nothing serious and they had nothing to worry about, turned and left. The bleeding stopped... The doctors said that they did not understand at all how this happened” (6, p.143-144).

The (Great) Princess Olga Alexandrovna testifies: “There were thousands and thousands of people who firmly believed in the power of prayer and the gift of healing that this man possessed” (29, p. 100).

Standing in prayer before God for the Heir is only a small part of Rasputin’s service to his Sovereign. He was a companion of prayer to the Anointed One of God for the Russian Autocratic Kingdom, and human sophisticated cunning and devilish malice, hidden from the eyes of the tsars, were often revealed to him. He warned the Tsar against many decisions that threatened disaster for the country: he was against the last convocation of the Duma, asked not to publish Duma seditious speeches, on the very eve of the February Revolution he insisted on bringing food to Petrograd - bread and butter from Siberia, even came up with the idea of ​​packaging flour and sugar so that avoid queues, because it was in the queues during the artificial organization of the grain crisis that the St. Petersburg unrest began, skillfully transformed into a “revolution”. And this is just a fraction of Rasputin’s predictions of current events during the war and pre-revolutionary period of 1914-1917. Knowing how to see the human soul, Grigory Efimovich knew the souls and moods of the sovereign’s closest servants, and therefore saw that in. book Nikolai Nikolaevich as Commander-in-Chief was not just the death of the Army, but also a threat to the Reign. Rasputin insisted that the Emperor lead the Army, and victory was not long in coming.

Rasputin's insight amazed everyone who had the opportunity to communicate with him. According to the story of Grigory Efimovich’s daughter Varvara, recorded by N.A. Sokolov in 1919, one day a woman came to Rasputin’s apartment. “The father, approaching her, said: “Well, come on, what’s in your right hand. I know what you have there." The lady took her hand out of her muff and handed him a revolver” (7, p.184).

The fact that Rasputin was perspicacious, and his perspicacity, given to him by God, guided his feat of prayer, is known not only from people spiritually close to him. The murderer Felix Yusupov testified in despair: “I have been involved in the occult for a long time and I can assure you that people like Rasputin, with such magnetic power, appear once every few centuries... No one can replace Rasputin, therefore the elimination of Rasputin will have good consequences for the revolution "(8, p.532). The enemies of the Tsar, who dreamed of destroying the Throne through “swinging society,” focused on denigrating Rasputin.<…>

How was Grigory Efimovich supposed to justify himself for non-existent sins and to whom? The Sovereign and Empress saw with their own eyes, felt his prayerful help every day and did not believe the slander, and from others... even the Sovereign and Empress only met condemnation and alienation for their favor towards the Elder. And Grigory Efimovich did not justify himself to anyone, but only prayed to God, and these prayers today remained his justification for all time: “I am going through difficult misdeeds. It’s terrible what they write, God! Give patience and stop the enemies from speaking!” (9, p.491).<…>

And such a person, the Tsar’s Friend, in the most important meaning of the word, always spiritually co-present with the Tsar in his service as the Anointed of God, first began to be killed spiritually - slandered and persecuted, and the purpose of the persecution was to tear Rasputin away from the Tsar, to destroy this saving union, powerful standing up as a spiritual wall in front of the destroyers of Russia. Many near and far, who believed the lies, went to the Tsar and Empress, wrote them insulting letters, threatened them, and demanded that Rasputin be expelled from them! But could the Emperor and Empress do this?<…>Slander had no effect on the High Ones, and the Throne still remained inviolable behind the wall of prayer of Elder Gregory, but slander had an effect on the crowd of intellectuals, on the mob, who had forgotten their love for the Tsars.

Almost all memoirs about Grigory Efimovich Rasputin suffer from a drawback that is surprising for memories: most memoirists did not see Grigory Efimovich or saw him briefly, from afar. But all the “memories”, both those who were sympathetic to the Royal Family and those who expressed hostility towards Her, spoke equally badly about Rasputin, repeating the same thing: a drunkard, a libertine, a whip. What did they know about him? What, besides rumors...<…>

Fortunately, there are other people among memoirists. General P.G. Kurlov published the book “The Death of Imperial Russia” in Berlin in 1923. The general never belonged to the circle of Grigory Efimovich, and the elder’s haters cannot accuse him of bias, in addition, he is a professional policeman, director of the Police Department, head of the Main Prison Directorate, comrade of the Minister of Internal Affairs, and experience in dealing with people of criminal thinking and behavior, namely, this is the image of Rasputin that was imposed on society, Kurlov had a huge one, and he had no reason to stand up for Rasputin and the Royal Family after 1911, because with the murder of P.A. Stolypin's own destiny and career collapsed. Kurlov describes Rasputin as he himself saw him. “I was in the ministerial office, where the courier on duty brought Rasputin. A thin man with a wedge-shaped dark brown beard and piercing, intelligent eyes approached the minister. He sat down with P.A. Stolypin near the large table and began to prove that it was in vain to suspect him of something, since he is the most meek and harmless person... After that, I expressed to the minister my impression: in my opinion, Rasputin was a type of Russian cunning man, that is called - on his own mind, and did not seem like a charlatan to me” (15, p. 312). “For the first time I talked with Rasputin in the winter of 1912 at one of my acquaintances... The external impression of Rasputin was the same as what I made when, unknown to him, I saw him in the minister’s office... This time I was struck only by Rasputin’s serious acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures and theological issues. He behaved with restraint and not only did not show a shadow of boasting, but did not say a single word about his relationship with the Royal Family. Likewise, I did not notice any signs of hypnotic power in him and, leaving after this conversation, I could not help but say to myself that most of the rumors circulating about his influence on those around him belonged to the field of gossip, to which Petersburg is always so susceptible" (15, p. 317). At a new meeting with Kurlov, “Rasputin was keenly interested in the war and, since I had come from the theater of military operations, asked my opinion about its possible outcome, categorically stating that he considered the war with Germany a huge disaster for Russia... Being an opponent of the war that had begun, he with great patriotic enthusiasm he spoke about the need to bring it to the end, in the confidence that the Lord God will help the Emperor and Russia... It follows from this that the accusation of Rasputin of treason was just as justified as the already refuted accusation of the Empress... I had to talk with Rasputin several times in the last months of his life. I met him at the same Badmaev’s and was amazed by his innate intelligence and practical understanding of current issues, even of a state nature” (15, p. 318).

So, slander had no effect on the Royal Family; Rasputin’s prayers were its constant strengthening.<…>That is why it was decided to kill the Royal Friend, leaving the Family alone and without prayer protection on earth. But in order to publicly kill the elder, in order to make society want this murder, it was necessary to increase the slander tenfold, it was necessary to drag the bright faces of the Tsars into the mud. For this purpose, a scam was invented with the appearance of a false identity - a double of Grigory Rasputin.

The first guesses that the Royal Family compromised through Grigory Efimovich's double, appeared shortly after the murder of the Elder. One of the evidence of this is the story of the ataman of the Don Army, Count D.M. Grabbe about how, shortly after the murder of Rasputin, he was “invited to breakfast by the famous Prince Andronnikov, who allegedly handled business through Rasputin. Entering the dining room, Grabbe was amazed to see Rasputin in the next room. Not far from the table stood a man who looked exactly like Rasputin. Andronnikov looked inquisitively at his guest. Grabbe pretended not to be surprised at all. The man stood, stood, left the room and did not appear again” (17, p. 148). Needless to say, such a “double” could appear during the life of Grigory Efimovich in any “hot” place, could get drunk, make scandals, hug women, about which daily reports were compiled by dirt-hungry newspapermen, could leave the entrance of the house on Gorokhovaya and march on apartment to a prostitute, about which daily reports were compiled by security department agents. Yu.A. Den recalls with bewilderment: “It got to the point that they stated that Rasputin was debauched in the capital, while in fact he was in Siberia” (10, p.95).

The story of the double's revelry in the Moscow restaurant "Yar" is the best confirmation of this.

On March 26, 1915, Grigory Efimovich arrived and left Moscow on the same day. But here is the report of Colonel Martynov that “according to the information of the bailiff of the 2nd school. Sushchevsky part of Moscow, Colonel Semenov,” Rasputin on March 26, at about 11 pm, visited the Yar restaurant with the widow Anisya Reshetnikova, journalist Nikolai Soedov and an unidentified young woman. Then they were joined by the editor-publisher of the newspaper “News of the Season” Semyon Lazarevich Kugulsky. The company drank wine, the dispersed “Rasputin” danced the Russian dance, performed obscenities, and boasted of his power over the “old woman” (as this man called the Tsarina). At 2 o'clock in the morning the company left.<…>

The Empress quite rightly wrote to the Emperor: “He (Elder Gregory) has been slandered enough. As if they couldn’t call the police immediately and catch Him at the scene of the crime” (19).

So, in the Moscow restaurant "Yar" Rasputin's "double" walked with a dummy company, and everything played out as usual: drunkenness, harassment of ladies, mentions of the Royal Family, Khlystov dance. And if the police had been called at the same time, it would have been revealed that Rasputin was not real, and Anisya Reshetnikova, a pious merchant widow of 76 years old, had never been to the restaurant. But the newspaperman Semyon Lazarevich Kugulsky was a genuine person and, most likely, was the entrepreneur of the “orgy”. It was he who tried to ensure that the case of the revelry in “Yar” got into the press even before the investigation and became overgrown with obscene details. Following this, the State Duma prepared a request about the events at the Yar restaurant, then did not give it a go, deliberately spreading the fiction that the Duma was prohibited from making this request, since the Royal Family was “afraid of the truth.” And the idle rabble went and went to slander - a drunken, depraved man - the favorite of the Royal Family!

This is how, deliberately and brazenly, the double of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin was introduced into society. And although the actions of the double, his words, notes, his very appearance - a long fleshy nose, a thin beard, restless, shifting eyes - were very different from the handsome appearance of Grigory Efimovich, the double persistently passed himself off and, most importantly, was willingly accepted as the Prayer Book and Friend of the Royal Family.

It is thanks to the existence of the double that two Rasputins appear from the pages of the security department reports: one is pious, splendid, pious, goes to churches, defends liturgies, lights candles, goes to apartments to heal the sick, receives petitioners, spiritual children, eats with them, and, moreover, how noted by all the people really close to him, Father Gregory does not take any wine, meat, or sweets into his mouth. Strict abstinence. The money donated by the petitioners is immediately distributed to other petitioners. And, most importantly, he is respectful to the point of reverence towards the Imperial Family. Another “Rasputin” is drunk for weeks, visits harlots, takes bribes for patronage, makes scandals in restaurants, breaks dishes and mirrors there, speaks bad things about the Royal Family.

The time will come, and new documents will be discovered that will finally prove to us that the dark personality, who outwardly resembled Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, was created by the enemies of the Autocratic Russian Kingdom.

(1.) Protocols of the interrogation of Admiral Kolchak by the emergency commission of inquiry in Irkutsk in January-February. 1920 // Archive of the Russian Revolution. – T.10. – M. – 1991.

(3.) Interrogation of Maklakov V.A. Sokolov N.A. // Investigation of the regicide. Secret documents. – M. – 1993.

(4.) Worres Ian. The last Grand Duchess. – M. – 1998.

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(6.) Taneyeva (Vyrubova) A.A. Pages of my life. – M. 2000.

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(10.) Den Yu.A. The real Queen. – M. – 1998.

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We publish the preface to the book “Grigory Rasputin the New. The Life of an Experienced Wanderer. My thoughts and reflections”, published in 2002 by the publishing house “Lestvitsa”.

In Russian history G.E. Rasputin is one of the most slandered people, in whose official biography there is not a single real event.

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin (09/22.01.1869 – 17/30.12.1916) was born in the village of Pokrovsky, Tyumen region. Of the 9 born in the peasant family, he and his sister Feodosia remained, who later got married and left for another village. The surname “Rasputin” comes from the word “crossroads”, which means the development of roads, crossroads.

God's gifts of insight and healing appeared in childhood. He knew which of his fellow villagers would soon die, who had stolen what. He could sit near the stove and say: “A stranger is coming towards us.” And indeed, soon he knocked. One day his father said that their horse had sprained a ligament. He went to her, prayed and told her: “Now you will feel better.” The horse recovered. Since then, he has become a kind of rural veterinarian. Then it spread to people.

Rasputin met his future wife Dubrovina Paraskeva Fedorovna during a pilgrimage to the Abalaki monastery at the age of 18. The marriage produced 7 children, three of whom survived.

Many people in Tsarist Russia lived according to the Orthodox traditions of Holy Rus' - mainly in the spring (during Lent) or autumn (after the harvest) people walked to the holy monasteries. The common people made pilgrimages mainly on foot, eating and spending the night with the hosts who sheltered them, who readily performed this godly task. Rasputin did the same. I visited the nearby Tyumen and Abalak monasteries, the Verkhoturye St. Nicholas Monastery, the Sedmiozersk and Optina Hermitages, and the Pochaev Lavra. Repeatedly went on pilgrimage to Kyiv, to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Later I was on New Athos, in Jerusalem. Until his death, he always farmed himself (sowing and harvesting work), without hiring help.

He came to St. Petersburg in the late autumn of 1904 to the rector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, Bishop Sergius of Stragorod (the future patriarch), with a letter of recommendation from the vicar of the Kazan diocese, Chrysanf (Shchetkovsky), who introduced him to some people in St. Petersburg society. Rasputin was looking for money to build a new church in the village of Pokrovskoye, and in the end the tsar himself gave money for the construction.

He was also in Kronstadt with Fr. John, who was also at one time called a sectarian, a libertine, and a self-seeker for his communication with Tsar Alexander III. Received communion from the hands of Fr. John. According to the memoirs of Rasputin's daughter Matryona, Fr. John came out of the altar and asked: “Who is praying so fervently here?” He approached Rasputin, lifted him from his knees, and then invited him to his place. During the conversation he said: “It will be for you according to your name” (the name “Gregory” means “awake”).

For many representatives of high society “after the eternal intrigues and evils of secular life,” as well as during those troubled times when monarchists in high positions were killed by bombs and gunshots, conversations with him served as a consolation. Learned people and priests found him interesting. Although Gregory was illiterate, he knew the Holy Scriptures by heart and knew how to interpret them. Bishop Alexy (Molchanov) of Tobolsk considered Rasputin “an Orthodox Christian, a very intelligent, spiritually minded man, seeking the truth of Christ, able to give good advice to those who need it.”

He did the same in his native village of Pokrovskoye. According to memories in the 90s. old residents of the village, he helped the children get dressed for school, arrange a wedding for their son, buy a horse, etc.

In addition to cases of stopping bleeding in an hemophiliac heir (including when the heir was in Poland, and Rasputin was in the village of Pokrovsky, and a telegram was sent to him), there are cases when, through Rasputin’s prayers, the Lord healed and alleviated the suffering of O.V. Lakhtina (neurasthenia of the intestines), son of A.S. Simanovich (Witt's dance), A.A. Vyrubova (crushed bones in a train crash), daughter of P.A. Stolypin (his legs were blown off when terrorists exploded a bomb at his dacha).

Rasputin was an opponent of the war, he said that it was death for Russia, but if we are going to fight, we must see it to a victorious end. He approved when the tsar introduced prohibition in 1914 and replaced him as Commander-in-Chief in 1915. book Nikolai Nikolaevich, who led the army to retreat. On his advice, during the war, the empress and her eldest daughters completed courses and worked as nurses, while the younger ones darned clothes for soldiers and prepared bandages and lint in the Tsarskoye Selo hospital (the only case in history).

He could refuse to meet with the prince or count and walk on foot to the outskirts of the city to meet with an artisan or simple peasant. Princes and counts, as a rule, do not forgive such independence to a “simple peasant”. The epicenter of slander comes from the palace of Uncle Nicholas II. book Nikolai Nikolaevich and his wife Stana Nikolaevna with her sister Militsa. It was through these sisters that Grigory Rasputin first met the royal couple in November 1905. But after the tsarina’s quarrel with her sisters and the failure of Nikolai Nikolaevich to use Rasputin to influence the tsar, this family and its entourage in 1907 became unfriendly to the royal family and especially to its friend Rasputin. Many people from secular society were indignant at the royal family for bringing a simple peasant closer to them, and not from among the well-born and eminent.

In 1910, in order to undermine the throne and the entire Russian state, some newspapers joined in denigrating Rasputin, which people believed just as much as we now believe the media. Provincial newspapers often took articles from metropolitan newspapers.

In 1912, Hieromonk Iliodor (Trufanov), who knew Rasputin, renounces Christ (sends a written renunciation to the synod), apologizes to the Jews and begins to write a slanderous book on Rasputin and the royal family “Holy Devil”, individual episodes from which were published in imperial Russia, and it was published in its entirety in Russia after the February Revolution.

In 1914, the bourgeois Khionia Guseva makes an attempt on Rasputin's life in the village of Pokrovskoye (she hits him in the stomach with a dagger). When the police find out that she is a follower of Iliodor-Trufanov, he flees responsibility abroad. Unlike us, the enemies of our Fatherland know very well who is for them and who is against them, and Iliodor-Trufanov, who has already returned to Soviet Russia, gets a job on the recommendation of F.E. Dzerzhinsky to the Cheka for special cases.

To create the image of Rasputin as a drunkard, a whip and a depraved person, his doubles worked.

The real G.E. Rasputin

Photos of G.E.'s doubles Rasputin, given in the book

Reputable journalists and writers were invited to a meeting with the double and his fans, so that they would subsequently write and tell their friends about Rasputin’s behavior (memoirs of the writer N.A. Teffi). The existence of a double was also testified to by the ataman of the Don army, Count D.M. Grabbe, who spoke about how, shortly after the murder of Rasputin, he was invited to breakfast by the famous Prince Andronnikov, who allegedly handled business through Rasputin. Entering the dining room, Grabbe was amazed to see Rasputin in the next room. Not far from the table stood a man who looked exactly like Rasputin. Andronnikov looked inquisitively at his guest. Grabbe pretended not to be surprised at all. The man stood, stood, left the room and did not appear again.

General V.F. was also active. Dzhunkovsky was the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the head of the gendarme corps while he was in this post. Under his patronage, a case was fabricated in 1915 about Rasputin’s unbridled behavior in the Moscow restaurant “Yar” without a single testimony from a real person, who was widely covered in the press, and the diaries of external surveillance of Rasputin, supposedly to protect his life after the assassination attempt, were subjected to literary processing.

The owner of the St. Petersburg restaurant “Villa Rode” A.S. also worked in conjunction with the double. Rode. Articles about Rasputin's debauchery in this restaurant were regularly published in newspapers.

After the Bolshevik revolution, Prince Andronnikov and General Dzhunkovsky were accepted and worked in the bodies of the Cheka, and the merchant A.S. Rode was appointed director of the House of Scientists in Petrograd.

Forged letters from the empress and her daughters to Rasputin circulated in secular salons, talking about an adulterous relationship between them, allegedly given by Rasputin to Iliodor-Trufanov while communicating with him. Rumors spread at the front that the Empress (German by birth) and Rasputin surrendered Russia to Germany due to the alleged weakness of the Tsar because of their love of alcohol. Rasputin was credited with influencing government affairs, all unpopular dismissals and appointments, and government actions that were undesirable to society. Duma figures, future Februaryists, spoke out and spoke from the rostrum against Rasputin.

A woman came to confession to the confessor of the royal family, Archimandrite Feofan (Bistrov), who told about Rasputin’s inappropriate behavior with her, and he, not allowing the idea that one could lie in confession, and violating the secrecy of confession, told the empress and his hierarchs about it.

Rasputin spoke about the highest Christian virtue - love, which is not understandable even to all Christians, not to mention the people of this world, and it was conveniently turned into carnal “love”, understandable to everyone. Likewise, humility was turned into thoughtless submission.

It must be said that everyone close to the royal family, the royal ministers, and monarchists in general were subjected to attacks and ridicule. As the royal doctor E.S. said. Botkin: “If there had been no Rasputin, the opponents of the Royal Family and the preparers of the revolution would have created him with their conversations from Vyrubova; if there had been no Vyrubova, from me, from whomever you want.”

Many people, incl. those who subsequently left their memoirs in exile, who did not know Rasputin personally, formed their opinion about him based on rumors circulating in their social circle. The tsar himself repeatedly arranged secret checks of the “facts,” but they were not confirmed.

Believing in the slander against the royal family and its friend Rasputin, the Russian people calmly accepted the February revolution, the overthrow of the tsar and even the murder of the royal family.

Rasputin told his loved ones that he would not live to see 1917 and would die in terrible agony. Before going with F.F. Yusupov to his house, he burned all the correspondence and put on a new shirt. They killed as martyrs: they beat him with a whip, knocked out an eye, pulled out tufts of hair, and made an incision under the left hypochondrium (in the image of Christ). Then they threw him alive into the hole, because... my lungs were full of water.

The investigation showed all this contrary to the official version - the execution, which was described by those who declared themselves to be murderers (but from their testimony it is clear that they did not know what kind of shirt Rasputin was wearing, i.e. they did not see him without outer clothing). Found not far from a hole under the ice. The fingers of the right hand, freed from the rope, were folded into the sign of the cross as a symbol of victory over death.

Immediately after the abdication of the king, by order of A.F. Kerensky's body, Rasputin's body was dug up and burned in the suburbs of Petrograd, the case of his murder was closed, Khionia Guseva was released (in 1919, she also attempted the life of Patriarch Tikhon with a dagger), Rasputin's spiritual father, Fr. Makariy (Polikarpov) Verkhotursky. The revolutionary synod sent all the monarchist hierarchs to retire, incl. Bishop Isidore (Kolokolov), who performed the funeral service for Rasputin. After the Bolshevik revolution, Rasputin's daughter Matryona emigrated with her husband, the second daughter died of typhus, his wife and son were exiled as special settlers, where they died. Church and house of Rasputin in the village. Pokrovsky was destroyed. The main reason for burning the bodies of the royal family and Rasputin is to conceal the method of murder (those who were actually shot were not burned).

In films and books - creating the external image of a huge, tall and scary man. In reality, Rasputin was in poor health, not physically very strong, and of short stature (as can be seen from the photograph, and the Empress, as is known, was of average height).

All films, all foreign and domestic literature (with the exception of books: I.V. Evsin “The Slandered Elder”, T.L. Mironov “From Under the Lies”, O.A. Platonov “Life for the Tsar” and the documentary film “ Martyr for Christ and for the Tsar Gregory the New” directed by V. Ryzhko, as well as the book of the same name by schema-nun Nikolai (Groyan) and V.L. Smirnov “The Unknown about Rasputin”), fake diaries of the queen’s friend A.A. Vyrubova, Rasputin himself and the memoirs of his daughter Matryona, allegedly his secretary A.S. Simanovich, the names of restaurants, alcohol and tobacco products - everything is aimed at denigrating Rasputin, which pursues 3 goals:

1) Discrediting the monarchy. By calling it imperialism, tsarism, the tsarist regime, we are told that the tsar himself, with his wife and friend Rasputin, became the cause of the fall of the autocracy, revolutions and subsequent troubles in Russia.

2) Discrediting the Orthodox faith.“The royal family and Rasputin were Orthodox, but what did they do?”

3) Discrediting the Russian people. Because Rasputin is a representative of the common people, a representation of this people as the source of everything bad and unclean, and not the source of a godly life and loyalty to the tsar.

The denigration of Rasputin is being done constantly (new books and films are being published) in order to instill in all generations of Russian people (and the whole world) a persistent rejection, and therefore a non-return to their Christian statehood - Orthodoxy, monarchy, nationality.

On the contrary, what was disintegrated in Tsarist Russia was secular society, which stood between the Tsar and the people. It despised the common people, at the expense of which it lived, considered the monarchy an obstacle to progress according to the Western model, and a disdainful and mocking attitude towards Orthodoxy was a sign of good form (many were involved in the occult). In his last letter, Rasputin said that in 25 years there would be no nobles left in Russia.

Many people refer to the negative attitude of the now canonized saints towards Rasputin, but no one talks about a subsequent change in their opinion. After the Bolshevik revolution, Bishop Hermogenes (Dolganov) (whose cell attendant Iliodor-Trufanov was at one time) sent the royal family in Tobolsk a letter apologizing for his statements, served a memorial service for Rasputin, for which he was drowned in the river. Ture opposite the village. Pokrovsky. The Tsarina's sister Elizaveta Feodorovna sent the royal family in Yekaterinburg a small copy of the newly-revealed "Sovereign" icon of the Mother of God and a letter of forgiveness for condemning them, believing in the slander of Rasputin.

There is only one truth, and it is with God. The Lord does not give His gifts to ordinary sinful people, not to mention obvious sinners. And images of ordinary people do not stream myrrh, but only the righteous, and there are no exceptions to this phenomenon (as the icon of Rasputin, painted by the Tobolsk Orthodox who did not wait for his canonization, streams myrrh).

Myrrh-streaming icon G.E. Rasputin

The Lord will ask each person for failure to comply with His commandment “Do not judge,” especially if the person being condemned is innocent. A person’s guilt is greater in the case of public statements and seducing others into this sin.

Those people who believe that Rasputin stopped the blood of the heir with witchcraft blaspheme the Holy Spirit, because. do not agree with the decision of the Orthodox Church to canonize the royal family. Because According to the canons of the Orthodox Church, turning to magicians is punishable by excommunication from church communion, and certainly not canonization. And, as you know, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is not forgiven either in this or in the next century.

In his youth, Gregory followed in the footsteps of his father: he had a peasant insatiable appetite for work, drinking strong alcoholic drinks and having fun with women who easily agreed to everything. At the age of 20, Rasputin married a local girl named Praskovya Dubrovina. They had four children. Around 1900, he became a member of a heretical religious sect known as the Whigs. The Khlyshchi believed that a person must first sin, and then atone for his sins. They had many varied and strange sexual traditions and rituals. Due to conflicts with representatives of the traditional church, Rasputin was forced to leave his native village. He traveled across all of Russia, earning his living by healing the sick and initiating entire crowds of women into the rites of the “Khlyshchi.” By 1905, he settled in St. Petersburg, where rumors of his “miraculous” ability to heal people suffering from the most severe and terrible diseases reached the royal family. Rasputin appeared before Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra. Their son Alexey suffered from hemophilia. Rasputin really managed to somehow alleviate the boy’s suffering. This immediately made him famous and led to his extraordinary rise at the royal court. Rasputin was especially favored by Tsarina Alexandra. Rasputin shocked the high society of St. Petersburg with his wild and scandalous antics. In 1916, Rasputin fell victim to a conspiracy organized by a group of nobles. They first gave Rasputin poisoned wine and then shot him several times with a pistol. After this, Rasputin was tied up and thrown into the Neva, where he drowned.

Rasputin was, without a doubt, one of the most successful sexual adventurers in history. His sexual activity was simply incredible. Rasputin's daughter Maria later said that her father's 32-centimeter penis seemed to simply “radiate” activity. When Rasputin was still a boy, this magnificent part of his body always delighted local girls and women with whom he swam naked in the village pond. It was Irina Danilovna Kubasova, the young and beautiful wife of a Russian army general, who really introduced Rasputin to the world of sex. To seduce 16-year-old Rasputin, she called for help from six of her maids, who managed to lure him into her bedroom. After this, Rasputin began to actively resort to the services of young women living in his village. He did not stop doing this even after his marriage to Praskovya. Soon he became a member of the sect of the whippersnappers, who not only did not prohibit, but, on the contrary, in every possible way welcomed the active pleasure of the flesh. Soon after this, Rasputin began his long journey through Russia, during which he always found a huge number of women willing to participate with him in his unusual sexual rituals. These rituals, in fact, were ordinary orgies with a change of partners. These rituals could be carried out anywhere - “in the forest, in a barn or in the house of any of the participants.” Rasputin's theory that sins can be atoned for through sex made it possible for thousands of peasant women to truly enjoy this side of human life for the first time, despite the dirty and slovenly appearance of the “holy libertine.” Even the sophisticated ladies of St. Petersburg later became victims of Rasputin's sexual power. His biographer Robert Massey noted: “Having sex with this unwashed peasant, who had a scruffy beard and dirty hands, was something completely new, previously unknown and unusually exciting. The ladies gathered in his apartment and waited in line for an invitation to his bed, which Rasputin himself called “the holy of holies.” Rasputin became so fashionable and gained such fame that even the husbands of the women with whom he had already slept, without any embarrassment, boasted to each other that their wives had already “been with this incredible Rasputin” Almost at any moment Rasputin could be found in the hall, where he sat surrounded by his "students". One of them usually sat on his lap. He stroked her hair and whispered something in her ear about the "mysterious resurrection". Then he began to sing, and the song was immediately picked up by everyone present. Soon everyone started dancing some kind of wild and crazy dance. After this, trips began to another room to the place where the “holy of holies” stood. At one of these classes, Rasputin suddenly began to speak vividly and in detail about the sexual life of horses. He then roughly grabbed one of the “students” by the shoulder and said, “Come along, my beautiful mare.”

Even in the way Rasputin died, one can find sexual connotations. His murder was planned and carried out by people who were very jealous of the power and position at court that Rasputin enjoyed. He was invited to a late dinner, where he was treated to poisoned food and poisoned wine. One of the killers, Felix Yusupov, had homosexual tendencies. He repeatedly tried to get closer to Rasputin, but he never succeeded. When Rasputin began to lose consciousness from the poison starting to take effect, Yusupov first raped him and then shot him four times with a pistol. Rasputin fell to the floor, but was alive. Grigory Rasputin was then castrated. His severed penis was later found by a servant. He gave it to a maid who, according to the latest information, lived in Paris back in 1968. In a polished wooden box she kept the organ, which looked like “...a black overripe banana about 30 centimeters long...”

Modern writer-historian Yuri Rassulin, discussing the personality of Elder Gregory, says: “It is not possible to explain the paradoxical combination in one person, /Gregory Rasputin/ of holiness and vice - one of the witnesses lied. Who: the Jew Aron Simanovich with Sergei Trufanov, who renounced God and His Holy Church, or the Holy Royal Martyrs and Passion-Bearers; pervert Felix Yusupov with the Satanist Zhukovskaya or nun Maria - she is the faithful maid of honor of the Empress Anna Alexandrovna Taneyeva (Vyrubova)? The whole question again comes down to who to believe? Everyone is free to make their own choice...

Grigory Rasputin is the cause of all troubles from the point of view of many. Too many people believed the dirty rumors. Through the nasty, disgusting thoughts that swarmed in the heads of representatives of the Russian intelligentsia, and from there spread into the souls of ordinary people, the sacred image of the Sovereign was desecrated in the thoughts and feelings of the sons of the Russian People. The shadow of the betrayal of the God-anointed Tsar fell on the relationship of the Russian People with God. Not only the Family of the Holy Crowned Ones was insulted, but also the entire Russian People, one of whose representatives, close to the Tsar, was and is Gregory the New (Rasputin). The Name of God is also blasphemed, because during prayer, Grigory Efimovich, in the Name of God, healed Tsarevich Alexei, helped other people, and there is plenty of evidence of this.

And until the deepest misconception regarding his personality and his role in Russian history is not eliminated, there is still a reason to make claims to the Russian Autocrats and bring bewilderment into the minds of the Russian people in connection with the events of that fatal historical period for Russia. In the accusations that are again heard today against the Russian peasant, it is not difficult to see the long-standing desire to present a bill to Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Through slander about Grigory Rasputin the New, the dignity of their royal service and the height of their Christian feat are called into question. Thus, the memory of the Holy Crown Bearers is again insulted. Is this the kind of repentance the Lord expects from us? The truth must prevail. Otherwise, the vainly inflicted insult and the innocently shed royal blood will cry out to Heaven for vengeance. And this will continue until sin is subjected to spiritual healing, that is, repentance.

Who Grigory Rasputin really was, Olga Vladimirovna Lokhtina answered briefly and clearly during interrogation at the Extraordinary Investigative Commission. To the investigator’s question: “What kind of person do you think Rasputin is?” – she answered directly:
– I consider him an old man.
- What does it mean?
“An old man who has gone through his entire life through experience and has achieved all Christian virtues.”

For many, both then and today, Lokhtina’s testimony will not seem convincing. So what if the eccentric woman said something? No one wanted and does not want to believe her. Indeed, General Olga Vladimirovna Lokhtina, abandoned by everyone and expelled from home for her loyalty to Grigory Rasputin, was not taken seriously. Most considered her crazy, less often treated her like a holy fool. Yes, of course, you can not believe Lokhtina, and she was wrong. But the whole point is that this is exactly how the Holy Royal Martyrs treated Gregory. We won’t believe the Holy Royal Martyrs either? What about God? After all, Gregory the New (Rasputin) testified about God and directed people to God, performed miracles, prophesied, and healed. Yes, he healed, but was it by demonic power? And were Gregory the New’s repeated healings of Tsarevich Alexy, witnessed by contemporaries, also by demonic power? So, the Heir to the Russian Throne was healed of an incurable, fatal illness by the devil? This is how it turns out in accordance with the testimony of the liar Yusupov, the Jew Simanovich, the sexually preoccupied Zhukovskaya, the defrocked Trufanov, the leader of the revolutionary Duma Rodzianko, the social revolutionary Prugavin and those who, uncontrollably and madly trying to get into their company today, continue to believe them, and not Holy Royal Martyrs.

It is no coincidence that the word “believe” was used in the previous paragraph. Indeed, the question of Rasputin is a question of faith, faith in God, faith in the holiness of the Royal Martyrs and Passion-Bearers, faith in Their Friend and prayer book, and only then in words and testimony. If we believe that the Lord glorified the Russian Crown Bearers, we believe in Their holiness, it means that we love Them, and we trust Them, we trust Their opinion, especially in matters of decisive importance for the destinies of the Orthodox Russian Power and the Russian People, in matters of principled character. But it turns out that the question of the historical role of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-Novy in the fate of Russia and the attitude towards his personality is precisely not a secondary question, but a fundamental one. Why?

Let's answer frankly. Because if we consider Grigory Rasputin a scoundrel, then the conclusion is inevitable: the Tsar and Queen are criminals, because they showed criminal blindness, unacceptable for Their position, brought closer to themselves a person led by the devil, which turned into a grave tragedy for those entrusted to Him by God people and the death of the Orthodox Russian State. It is precisely this interpretation of historical events that the forces that destroyed both the Russian Tsar and the Russian Autocracy are still trying to impose on us. What could be worse than this accusation? If Rasputin is a scoundrel, one must inevitably admit that everyone who betrayed the Tsar is not traitors at all, but guardians of the good of the Fatherland, rescuers. Their protest against the unsatisfactory, and, moreover, criminal, from their point of view, reign of the last Emperor is legitimate and fair, and the oppression they suffered from the supreme royal power elevates them to the rank of those persecuted in the name of the people's good. Everything is turned upside down, complete nonsense arises in the interpretation of the events of the reign of Nicholas II and the basis for canonizing the Tsar and Queen disappears.

A third option is also possible, which, along with the recognition of the sanctity of the Royal Family, implies the justification of those who were forced to find themselves in opposition to the Russian Crown Bearers, including some members of the imperial family. This point of view is based on a somewhat strange assumption that the Russian Autocrats, of course, are holy, but, having found themselves in the spiritual captivity of a “political adventurer”, “charlatan” and “hypnotist”, they were unable to govern the Russian State and were completely disoriented in political matters. questions. Such a statement carries an inexplicable contradiction. How can holiness and submission be combined with the flattering spirit of sectarianism, alien to Orthodoxy and hostile to God? And what is the reason - in their spiritual blindness, captivity of their will, and by whom? A rogue, a libertine, a whip, an opponent of the Orthodox faith!? But it follows from this that the faith of the Tsar and Queen was vain if it brought such bitter fruits for the entire Russian land. This assumption is terrible for every Orthodox Christian who loves the martyred Royal Family and unshakably believes in their holiness.

But, perhaps, the horror they experienced of the tragic events of the revolution forced Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra, in the face of death, to realize their mistake and repent of it, to pay a terrible price for their blindness, and the Lord cleansed them with a painful death after undoubted repentance? But there is no such evidence. There is evidence to the contrary that all members of the holy Royal Family continued to believe in their Friend until the end of their days and sacredly preserved his memory.

Just as two dissimilar media that cannot mix will always have a visible boundary separating, say, water from oil, so information about Grigory Rasputin is clearly divided into two groups according to the nature of the statement. Based on the first group of evidence, Grigory Rasputin is a holy man of righteous life, an ascetic. The second group of evidence leads to the conclusion that the same person is a rogue, a swindler, a libertine, etc. But this does not happen with God. One does not fit with the other. A bad tree cannot bear good fruit. If a person is a prayer book, and his prayer has miraculous power, and this is nothing more than a gift of God, a manifestation of grace, the action of the Holy Spirit in a person, is it possible for such a person to be a fornicator or an adulterer?

If you believe the opponents of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-New, the Lord allowed terrible, cynical lawlessness to triumph, seduction and fornication to occur, covered by conversations about faith and the Name of God for many years. And this happened on such an incredible scale that one would be taken aback, apparently, by just the list of seduced victims, if one could be presented to human judgment. Of course, one could give a long philosophical argument on the topic of the ambiguity, confusion and inconsistency of human nature, that “from time immemorial, truth and falsehood have been rolling on the same wheel throughout the world.” But, as Grigory Efimovich once exclaimed: “And God, what about God!?” After all, to claim that Divine grace was contained in a dirty, vicious, foul-smelling vessel, defiled by fornication, is not this blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?

History, unfortunately, also has its own “scapegoats”, victims of the subjectivism of their contemporaries, which for some reason passed on to their descendants.

The “well-wishers” who were interested in this tried very hard to ruin their reputation. And now, with the passage of time, it is not easy to separate the wheat from the chaff, truth from falsehood.

We are unlikely to ever get the full truth, even after all the archives are opened. The point is to get rid of patterns and stereotypes of thinking, so as not to replace statistics with emotions.

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin is a figure in Russian history so odious, ambiguous and mysterious that debates about this person have been going on for a whole century.

Biography of Grigory Rasputin (9(21).01.1869-16(29).12.1916)

The future friend and adviser of the last royal family was a native of the village of Pokrovskoye, which was located in the Tobolsk province. Detractors pointed to the allegedly initially negative etymology of this man’s surname, linking it with Gregory’s subsequent lifestyle at the imperial court. However, most likely, the surname is not associated with debauchery, but with words like “crossroads” or “thaw.”

Grigory came from a peasant family, and it is unlikely that his parents could even imagine what a dramatic fate was in store for their son, who was sick a lot in childhood and was on the verge of death more than once.

His biography is not rich in external events - rather, on the contrary, it is poor in them. Rasputin was married and had three children. Having turned to religion, he was at home extremely rarely, especially in recent years, having acquired weight and power at the royal court and taking advantage of it. Rasputin was not particularly literate - both in his early years and subsequently.

Elder Grigory Rasputin

Having grown a beard during pilgrimages to holy places and monasteries, Gregory seemed older than his years. And, of course, by the age of 47 (that’s how old he was at the time of the murder), he was by no means an “old man.” However, it was this nickname that firmly stuck to him soon after moving to St. Petersburg in 1904. Two years later, Grigory made an attempt to change his surname to Rasputin-Novy. The request was granted.

At the beginning of November 1905, Rasputin was introduced to members of the royal family and personally to Emperor Nicholas II. In the latter’s diaries and in the letters of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the “man of God” is mentioned quite often. Rasputin gains influence over the imperial couple not only thanks to his intelligence and insight.

He owes his goodwill to the fact that he knew how to alleviate the suffering of the heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, who had hemophilia. At court there were many envious people and haters who demanded the removal of Rasputin, fearing the growth of his influence. For this purpose, “cases” were instigated against the “elder”, incriminating evidence was collected, and a powerful “anti-Rasputin” campaign was launched in the media.

Murder of Grigory Rasputin

Back in 1914, while staying in his native place, Rasputin survived an attempt on his life by a certain Khionia Guseva, who stabbed the “man of God” in the stomach. Then he miraculously survived. Two years later, death came for him. The conspiracy was made by very high-ranking and influential persons, including Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich.

The conspirators were led by Prince Felix Yusupov. He enlisted the support of deputy V.M. Purishkevich. The killers' testimony is confusing. According to the canonical version, the veracity of which is highly doubtful today, Rasputin was not affected by the poison, so he was shot in the back. However, Rasputin soon woke up and tried to escape. They overtook him and shot him several more times. Then they lowered us under the ice of the Neva.

In 2004, it became known about the participation in the murder of British intelligence officer Oswald Rayner. Britain feared that Russia would withdraw from the First World War and conclude a separate peace with Germany, for Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, as is known, was German by nationality. One way or another, less than a year after the death of the “elder”, one of his several dozen predictions came true - the Russian Empire ceased to exist, and a year later the reigning dynasty met a terrible death in the basement of the Ipatiev mansion in Yekaterinburg.

Grigory Rasputin is truly one of the most mystical and mysterious personalities, who is so firmly imprinted in the pages of the history of the Russian Empire. Disputes about his influence on the royal family, and on the course of history as a whole, are still raging. Some historians call the great “elder” a charlatan and an impostor, others believe in his holiness and power, others talk about magic and hypnosis...

Well, let’s try to figure out who Grishka Rasputin really was - a spiritual mentor and friend of the Tsar or an enemy “sent” who doomed the Tsar’s family to destruction.

Youth of Rasputin

The life of Grigory Rasputin is full of mysteries and contradictions. Even the year of birth of the elder is unknown; in various historical sources it ranges from 1864 to 1869.

Grigory Rasputin was born in the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province, in the family of peasants Efim and Anna Rasputin. The family was wealthy at that time, had a lot of land and a full yard of livestock.

Many children were born in this family, but few lived to adulthood. And Grigory grew up as a sickly child, incapable of hard work. His rough appearance and large, unattractive facial features marked him out as a peasant. But even then there was some kind of mysterious power and magnetism present in him, which so attracted young beauties to his person.

And his eyes were unusual, “witchcraft and alluring with their hypnotic gaze, like devilish black eyes”...

When the time came to get married, Grigory chose a bride from a neighboring village named Praskovya, a woman who, although not very beautiful, was a hard worker.

After all, with Grishka there was no sense in farming at all. She gave birth to Rasputin three children: Dimitri, Matryona and Varvara.

Rasputin and the royal family

All historians and biographers of Rasputin are still interested in the main question - how an uneducated, rude lout was able to get close to the royal family and even influence the political decisions of Nicholas II. He became a mediator between the common people and the king. And Grigory Rasputin, an ordinary peasant without medical education, was simply a miracle doctor for Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from a rare genetic disease, hemophilia. This simple man was adored by Alexandra Fedorovna herself, for whom Grisha was considered both a preacher and a psychologist rolled into one. He was honest and sincere with them, loved the entire royal family and became a true friend and protector of the entire dynasty. But a logical question arises - how was a commoner able to gain the trust of Nicholas II and his entire couple? How did he manage to get close and infiltrate the imperial residence and soul? We will try to figure this out ourselves.

Arriving in 1903 in the cultural capital of Russia, the city of St. Petersburg, a certain Grigory Rasputin begins to spread rumors about himself as a healer and seer, and his mysterious and even frightening appearance was proof of this. Since the Tsar’s wife Alexandra Feodorovna gave birth to a son with congenital hemophilia in 1904, the entire court was looking for a savior for Tsarevich Alexei, who was suffering from constant attacks. A commoner with superpowers, Grigory Rasputin, became such a miracle savior.

The illness of the only heir was carefully hidden from the people, so no one understood the strange connection between an ordinary and slightly strange peasant and the Emperor of All Rus' and interpreted it the way he wanted. For example, ill-wishers unanimously insisted that there was a love affair between the mysterious Rasputin and the empress. But why is Nicholas II silent? And there is an answer to this question. The fact is that Gregory knew hypnosis and could simply use it successfully. And in addition, the king was a little naive and weak-willed, unlike his wife with a fiery disposition.

They say that the cunning and witty Rasputin was used by the royal couple as a liaison between them and the Jewish bankers, through whom they exported their capital to European countries.

One thing is clear that all members of the royal family considered Rasputin “God’s man” and did not doubt him and his capabilities at all. For all the Romanovs, he was a true friend, savior and one of their own. Whether this was actually the case is unknown.

Rasputin and religion

American historian Douglas Smith nicknamed Rasputin the “mad monk.” Although the author of the book “Rasputin: Faith, Power and the Twilight of the Romanovs” believes that he was honest in his faith, served good and sincerely believed in Jesus, and not the devil (as many are inclined to think and suspect). Only the Russian church, for some unknown reason, did not officially recognize Gregory as a parishioner, considering him a great sinner who had renounced the Christian faith. Why? After all, we all know that before God we are all united and have the right to beg for our sins before the face of God in the bosom of the church? Is it really because of the connection with the royal family or the unattractive, rough appearance? But love and true idolization of the royal family made Grigory Efimovich a real righteous man in the eyes of the Russian people. All members of the Romanov dynasty, along with pectoral crosses, wore the image of Rasputin, painted on medallions, and firmly believed in his holiness.

After the violent death of her mentor, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna declared Gregory a real martyr and even published a small book called “The New Martyr.” She firmly believed that a miracle worker and a man of God, after such torment, was obliged to become a saint, but the church did not give its consent to this. This did not stop people from considering Rasputin their divine idol. After the news of the tragic death of the elder, people collected water from the Neva River, considering it sacred. After all, she was sprinkled with the blood of Grigory Rasputin himself. Who is he, the old man who can perform miracles? A prophet who sees the future or an ordinary charlatan, a drunkard and a womanizer? Unfortunately, not all questions can be answered...

Holy devil or sinful angel?

In war, as in war, all means are good, but the winner, as they say, is not judged. Rasputin had many enemies and one of them was Hieromonk Iliodor, who in his formidable pamphlet desecrated Gregory, creating for him the image of a cunning and vicious charlatan, drunkard, pervert and liar. At that time, they believed slogans, did not look for the truth, did not dig to the bottom of truth and authenticity. And such a distorted interpretation of the personality of a friend of the royal family only played into the hands of supporters of revolutionary Russia, who wanted to deal with outdated tsarism and its representatives. The author of the book Fülöp-Miller Rene entitled “The Holy Devil” tried to convey to his reader that Grigory Rasputin was not absolute evil or good. He was, like everyone else, a man with his own weaknesses, desires, positive and negative traits. He was also full of energy and positivity. His name has been remembered and known for more than 100 years. In part, this service was served by his enemies and ill-wishers, which means that he was feared, loved, hated and respected.

Women, wine and a demon in the rib

Was it really true that women could not resist the magical gaze of Grigory Rasputin, or were all the affairs and orgies attributed to him by his enemies? The old man’s relationship with women of easy virtue is undocumented, so this statement can not be taken seriously. Gregory’s daughter Matryona wrote in her book of memoirs: “I remember my father’s confession: “ For me, whether to touch a woman or a block of wood“, that is, she claims that the father did not feel attraction or passion for women. He loved them with his soul, understood and appreciated them. Rasputin knew how to listen and support in difficult times, and women paid Grigory for this kindness and understanding with their inclination and love. He was an excellent psychotherapist, but hardly a lover. He had plenty of female attention, but his ill-wishers did not interpret it in a positive way. Some women looked for consolation in his conversations, others for love, others for healing, and many were simply curious. Although Rasputin was not a virgin, neither was Casanova. An ordinary person with ordinary and natural needs, only according to some, for Rasputin they were prohibited.

Grigory Rasputin and politics

Thanks to the great inclination towards his extraordinary personality of the empress herself and the soft-spoken disposition of the tsar, Rasputin “poked his long nose” into the political affairs of the country, which the royal court really liked. He gave his reasoning and political advice, of course, to Alexandra Feodorovna, who later influenced the tsar. Saint Grishka, believing that everything was permitted to him, got involved even in the most important and responsible affairs of the government, for example, the strategy of the Russian army against German troops. Rasputin cannot be called a real politician, but he is certainly an excellent manipulator, because he got away with everything.

Causes of death, envy or revenge for deception

The most devoted and close ally of the royal couple faced a difficult fate and an even more tragic and mysterious death. Why did Felix Yusupov, an ardent rebel and supporter of republican slogans, hate the harmless old man Rasputin, so much so that he even decided to liquidate him along with his accomplices? There are many versions, but the site will list the most common ones

Version 1: Yusupov was not a very traditional sexual orientation, although he had a beautiful wife, Princess Irene. He turned to Rasputin to discourage him from this disgusting habit. But the old man didn’t succeed, and Felix decided to take revenge.

Version 2: Gregory had great influence on the royal family, and also magically protected them. In order to weaken the tsar’s defense, they decided to remove Rasputin first; as is known, a year later the royal family was also killed.

In fact, it was a political murder, which went down in history as the most cruel and senseless.

Myths and reality

The killer himself, Felix Yusupov, talked about how he lured his victim to the Yusupov Palace on the Moika. Further, together with the rest of the conspirators in the person of Lieutenant Sukhotin, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, Purishkevich and Doctor Lazovert, they committed this heinous crime. First there was potassium cyanide, the seer was very fond of sweets and could not refuse another portion of cakes with delicious cream, but it did not work and then the weapon was used. Grigory Rasputin died from three fatal wounds, one of which was to the head. This was shown by an autopsy conducted by Professor Kosorotov, and it was he who debunked the myth that Gregory was thrown into the Neva River while still alive; in his opinion, this was completely impossible.

Who is he really, a man of God or a servant of Lucifer? For some reason, everyone sees this man as a mystical and even otherworldly personality. But in my opinion, he was a simple, ordinary person who decided to take advantage of a great opportunity and excellent skills of manipulation and even hypnosis to make his life a little better and more comfortable. But is this a crime? And all the rumors and myths around him are a matter of human rumor and the unbridled imagination of the Russian people. Well, as for Rasputin’s appearance, it’s a matter of taste and color, because we are all very different!