Russian mystic born in Pokrovskoie, Siberia, who exerted a strong influence at the court of St. Petersburg, where he became a favorite of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II. The son of poor peasants, he earned in his youth the nickname Rasputin the Depraved. Considered a monk, without being ordained, he adopted a sect he called the flagellants, and after pilgrimage to Mount Acts, in Greece, he reappeared in his land with the reputation of being able to cure diseases but, faced with the threat of being taken for a heretic, he became wanderer.
Due to conditions favorable to occult beliefs by the local population, he settled in St. Petersburg (1905). After his introduction to the royal family, the young hemophiliac Aleksei, heir to the throne, had a relative improvement, and so Tsarina Feodorovna came to revere him.
Skulduggery, in the presence of the tsars, maintained the image of a holy and circumspect man, but outside of palace circles he preached the doctrine of redemption for sin and seduced several women. Due to his prestige, his denouncers were removed from court. However, his situation was complicated by the appearance of copies of love letters supposedly written by the Tsarina to the "holy pervert" (1912).
Thus his prestige temporarily declined, for when the tsar personally assumed command of the Russian troops, if the first world war broke out, the tsarina took control of internal affairs and made him an adviser particular. However a conspiracy, organized by politicians and ecclesiastics, was set up to kill him, and after being shot several times, he was thrown into the icy waters of the river Neva, where he died by drowning.
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Order R - Biography - Brazil School
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