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Biography, life story of Rasputin Grigory Efimovich

Birth

Born on January 9 (January 21), 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye, Tyumen district, Tobolsk province, in the family of coachman Efim Vilkin and Anna Parshukova.

Information about Rasputin's date of birth is extremely contradictory. Sources give various dates of birth between 1864 and 1872. TSB (3rd edition) reports that he was born in 1864-1865.

Rasputin himself in his mature years did not add clarity, reporting conflicting information about his date of birth. According to biographers, he was inclined to exaggerate his true age in order to better fit the image of an “old man.”

According to the writer Edward Radzinsky, Rasputin could not have been born earlier than 1869. The surviving metric of the village of Pokrovsky reports the date of birth as January 10 (old style) 1869. This is St. Gregory's Day, which is why the baby was named that way.

Beginning of life

In his youth, Rasputin was sick a lot. After a pilgrimage to the Verkhoturye Monastery, he turned to religion. In 1893, Rasputin traveled to the holy places of Russia, visited Mount Athos in Greece, and then Jerusalem. I met and made contacts with many representatives of the clergy, monks, and wanderers.

In 1890 he married Praskovya Fedorovna Dubrovina, a fellow pilgrim-peasant, who bore him three children: Matryona, Varvara and Dimitri.

In 1900 he set off on a new journey to Kyiv. On the way back, he lived in Kazan for quite a long time, where he met Father Mikhail, who was related to the Kazan Theological Academy, and came to St. Petersburg to visit the rector of the theological academy, Bishop Sergius (Stragorodsky).

In 1903, the inspector of the St. Petersburg Academy, Archimandrite Feofan (Bistrov), met Rasputin, introducing him also to Bishop Hermogenes (Dolganov).
St. Petersburg since 1904

In 1904, Rasputin, apparently with the assistance of Archimandrite Feofan, moved to St. Petersburg, where he gained from part of high society the fame of “an “old man,” “a holy fool,” “a man of God,” which “secured the position of a “saint” in the eyes of the St. Petersburg world.” . It was Father Feofan who told about the “wanderer” to the daughters of the Montenegrin prince (later king) Nikolai Njegosh - Militsa and Anastasia. The sisters told the empress about the new religious celebrity. Several years passed before he began to clearly stand out among the crowd of “God’s men.”

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In December 1906, Rasputin submitted a petition to the highest name to change his surname to Rasputin-Novy, citing the fact that many of his fellow villagers had the same surname, which could cause misunderstandings. The request was granted.

G. Rasputin and the imperial family

The date of the first personal meeting with the emperor is well known - on November 1, 1905, Nicholas II wrote in his diary:

"November 1st. Tuesday. Cold windy day. It was frozen from the shore to the end of our canal and a flat strip in both directions. Been very busy all morning. Had breakfast: book. Orlov and Resin (deux.). I took a walk. At 4 o'clock we went to Sergievka. We drank tea with Militsa and Stana. We met the man of God - Gregory from Tobolsk province. In the evening I went to bed, studied a lot and spent the evening with Alix".

There are other mentions of Rasputin in the diaries of Nicholas II.

Rasputin gained influence on the imperial family and, above all, on Alexandra Feodorovna by helping her son, heir to the throne Alexei, fight hemophilia, a disease against which medicine was powerless.

Rasputin and the church

Later life writers of Rasputin (O. Platonov) tend to see some broader political meaning in the official investigations conducted by the church authorities in connection with the activities of Rasputin; but investigative documents (the Khlysty case and police documents) show that all cases were the subject of their investigation into very specific acts of Grigory Rasputin, which encroached on public morality and piety.

The first case of Rasputin's "Khlysty" in 1907

In 1907, following a denunciation of 1903, the Tobolsk Consistory opened a case against Rasputin, who was accused of spreading false teachings similar to Khlyst’s and forming a society of followers of his false teachings. The work began on September 6, 1907, and was completed and approved by Bishop Anthony (Karzhavin) of Tobolsk on May 7, 1908. The initial investigation was carried out by priest Nikodim Glukhovetsky. Based on the collected “facts,” Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, a member of the Tobolsk Consistory, prepared a report to Bishop Anthony with the attachment of a review of the case under consideration by Dmitry Mikhailovich Berezkin, inspector of the Tobolsk Theological Seminary.

Covert police surveillance, Jerusalem - 1911

In 1909, the police were going to expel Rasputin from St. Petersburg, but Rasputin was ahead of them and he himself went home to the village of Pokrovskoye for some time.

In 1910, his daughters moved to St. Petersburg to join Rasputin, whom he arranged to study at the gymnasium. At the direction of the Prime Minister, Rasputin was placed under surveillance for several days.

At the beginning of 1911, Bishop Feofan suggested that the Holy Synod officially express displeasure to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in connection with Rasputin’s behavior, and a member of the Holy Synod, Metropolitan Anthony (Vadkovsky), reported to Nicholas II about the negative influence of Rasputin.

On December 16, 1911, Rasputin had a clash with Bishop Hermogenes and Hieromonk Iliodor. Bishop Hermogenes, acting in alliance with Hieromonk Iliodor (Trufanov), invited Rasputin to his courtyard; on Vasilievsky Island, in the presence of Iliodor, he “convicted” him, striking him several times with a cross. An argument ensued between them, and then a fight.

In 1911, Rasputin voluntarily left the capital and made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

By order of the Minister of Internal Affairs Makarov on January 23, 1912, Rasputin was again placed under surveillance, which continued until his death.

The second case of Rasputin's "Khlysty" in 1912

In January 1912, the Duma declared its attitude towards Rasputin, and in February 1912, Nicholas II ordered V.K. Sabler to resume the case of the Holy Synod with the case of Rasputin’s “Khlysty” and transfer Rodzianko for a report, “ and the palace commandant Dedyulin and handed over to him the Case of the Tobolsk Spiritual Consistory, which contained the beginning of Investigative Proceedings regarding the accusation of Rasputin belonging to the Khlyst sect" On February 26, 1912, at an audience, Rodzianko suggested that the tsar expel the peasant forever. Archbishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky) openly wrote that Rasputin is a whip and is participating in zeal.

The new (who replaced Eusebius (Grozdov)) Tobolsk Bishop Alexy (Molchanov) personally took up this matter, studied the materials, requested information from the clergy of the Intercession Church, and repeatedly talked with Rasputin himself. Based on the results of this new investigation, a conclusion of the Tobolsk Ecclesiastical Consistory was prepared and approved on November 29, 1912, which was sent to many high-ranking officials and some deputies of the State Duma. In conclusion, Rasputin-Novy is called “a Christian, a spiritually minded person who seeks the truth of Christ.” Rasputin no longer faced any official charges. But this did not mean that everyone believed in the results of the new investigation. Rasputin’s opponents believe that Bishop Alexy “helped” him in this way for selfish purposes: the disgraced bishop, exiled to Tobolsk from the Pskov See as a result of the discovery of a sectarian St. John’s monastery in the Pskov province, stayed at the Tobolsk See only until October 1913, that is, only a year and a half, after which he was appointed Exarch of Georgia and elevated to the rank of Archbishop of Kartalin and Kakheti with the title of member of the Holy Synod. This is seen as the influence of Rasputin.

However, researchers believe that the rise of Bishop Alexy in 1913 took place only thanks to his devotion to the reigning house, which is especially visible from his sermon delivered on the occasion of the 1905 manifesto. Moreover, the period in which Bishop Alexy was appointed Exarch of Georgia was a period of revolutionary ferment in Georgia.

It should also be noted that Rasputin’s opponents often forget about another elevation: Bishop Anthony of Tobolsk (Karzhavin), who brought the first case of “Khlysty” against Rasputin, was moved in 1910 from cold Siberia to the Tver See for this very reason and was elevated to the rank of archbishop on Easter. But they remember that this translation took place precisely because the first case was sent to the archives of the Synod.

Prophecies, writings and correspondence of Rasputin

During his lifetime, Rasputin published two books:
Rasputin, G. E. Life of an experienced wanderer. - May 1907.
G. E. Rasputin. My thoughts and reflections. - Petrograd, 1915..

The books are a literary record of his conversations, since the surviving notes of Rasputin testify to his illiteracy.

The eldest daughter writes about her father:

"... my father was, to put it mildly, not fully trained in reading and writing. He began taking his first writing and reading lessons in St. Petersburg".

In total there are 100 canonical prophecies of Rasputin. The most famous was the prediction of the death of the Imperial House:

"As long as I live, the dynasty will live".

Some authors believe that Rasputin is mentioned in Alexandra Feodorovna’s letters to Nicholas II. In the letters themselves, Rasputin’s surname is not mentioned, but some authors believe that Rasputin in the letters is designated by the words “Friend”, or “He” in capital letters, although this has no documentary evidence. The letters were published in the USSR by 1927, and in the Berlin publishing house “Slovo” in 1922. The correspondence was preserved in the State Archive of the Russian Federation - Novoromanovsky Archive.

Anti-Rasputin campaign in the press

In 1910, the Tolstoyan M.A. Novoselov published several critical articles about Rasputin in Moskovskie Vedomosti (No. 49 - “Spiritual guest performer Grigory Rasputin”, No. 72 - “Something else about Grigory Rasputin”).

In 1912, Novoselov published in his publishing house the brochure “Grigory Rasputin and Mystical Debauchery,” which accused Rasputin of being a Khlysty and criticized the highest church hierarchy. The brochure was banned and confiscated from the printing house. The newspaper "Voice of Moscow" was fined for publishing excerpts from it. After this, the State Duma followed up with a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the legality of punishing the editors of Voice of Moscow and Novoye Vremya.

Also in 1912, Rasputin’s acquaintance, former hieromonk Iliodor, began distributing several scandalous letters from Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the Grand Duchesses to Rasputin.

Copies printed on a hectograph circulated around St. Petersburg. Most researchers consider these letters to be forgeries. Later, Iliodor, on the advice of Gorky, wrote a libelous book “Holy Devil” about Rasputin, which was published in 1917 during the revolution.

In 1913-1914 The Supreme Council of the All-Russian People's Republic attempted a propaganda campaign regarding Rasputin's role at court. Somewhat later, the Council made an attempt to publish a brochure directed against Rasputin, and when this attempt failed (the brochure was delayed by censorship), the Council took steps to distribute this brochure in a typed copy.

Assassination attempt by Khionia Guseva

On June 29 (July 12), 1914, an attempt was made on Rasputin in the village of Pokrovskoye. He was stabbed in the stomach and seriously wounded by Khionia Guseva, who came from Tsaritsyn. Rasputin testified that he suspected Iliodor of organizing the assassination attempt, but could not provide any evidence of this. On July 3, Rasputin was transported by ship to Tyumen for treatment. Rasputin remained in the Tyumen hospital until August 17, 1914. The investigation into the assassination attempt lasted about a year. Guseva was declared mentally ill in July 1915 and released from criminal liability, being placed in a psychiatric hospital in Tomsk. On March 27, 1917, on the personal orders of A.F. Kerensky, Guseva was released.

Murder

Rasputin was killed on the night of December 17, 1916 in the Yusupov Palace on the Moika. Conspirators: F. F. Yusupov, V. M. Purishkevich, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, British intelligence officer MI6 Oswald Rayner (officially the investigation did not count him as murder).

Information about the murder is contradictory, it was confused both by the killers themselves and by the pressure on the investigation by the Russian, British and Soviet authorities. Yusupov changed his testimony several times: in the St. Petersburg police on December 16, 1916, in exile in Crimea in 1917, in a book in 1927, sworn to in 1934 and in 1965. Initially, Purishkevich’s memoirs were published, then Yusupov echoed his version. However, they radically diverged from the testimony of the investigation. Starting from naming the wrong color of the clothes that Rasputin was wearing according to the killers and in which he was found, and to how many and where bullets were fired. For example, forensic experts found 3 wounds, each of which was fatal: to the head, liver and kidney. (According to British researchers who studied the photograph, the control shot to the forehead was made from a British Webley .455 revolver.) After a shot in the liver, a person can live no more than 20 minutes, and is not able, as the killers said, to run down the street in half an hour or an hour. There was also no shot to the heart, which the killers unanimously claimed.

Rasputin was first lured into the basement, treated to red wine and a pie poisoned with potassium cyanide. Yusupov went upstairs and, returning, shot him in the back, causing him to fall. The conspirators went outside. Yusupov, who returned to get the cloak, checked the body; suddenly Rasputin woke up and tried to strangle the killer. The conspirators who ran in at that moment began to shoot at Rasputin. As they approached, they were surprised that he was still alive and began to beat him. According to the killers, the poisoned and shot Rasputin came to his senses, got out of the basement and tried to climb over the high wall of the garden, but was caught by the killers, who heard a dog barking. Then he was tied with ropes on his hands and feet (according to Purishkevich, first wrapped in blue cloth), taken by car to a pre-selected place near Kamenny Island and thrown from the bridge into the Neva polynya in such a way that his body ended up under the ice. However, according to the investigation materials, the discovered corpse was dressed in a fur coat, there was no fabric or ropes.

The investigation into the murder of Rasputin, led by the director of the Police Department A.T. Vasilyev, progressed quite quickly. Already the first interrogations of Rasputin’s family members and servants showed that on the night of the murder, Rasputin went to visit Prince Yusupov. Policeman Vlasyuk, who was on duty on the night of December 16-17 on the street not far from the Yusupov Palace, testified that he heard several shots at night. During a search in the courtyard of the Yusupovs' house, traces of blood were found.

On the afternoon of December 17, passers-by noticed blood stains on the parapet of the Petrovsky Bridge. After exploration by divers of the Neva, Rasputin’s body was discovered in this place. The forensic medical examination was entrusted to the famous professor of the Military Medical Academy D. P. Kosorotov. The original autopsy report has not been preserved; the cause of death can only be speculated.

« During the autopsy, very numerous injuries were found, many of which were inflicted posthumously. The entire right side of the head was crushed and flattened due to the bruise of the corpse when it fell from the bridge. Death resulted from heavy bleeding due to a gunshot wound to the stomach. The shot was fired, in my opinion, almost point-blank, from left to right, through the stomach and liver, with the latter being fragmented in the right half. The bleeding was very profuse. The corpse also had a gunshot wound in the back, in the spinal area, with a crushed right kidney, and another point-blank wound in the forehead, probably of someone who was already dying or had died. The chest organs were intact and were examined superficially, but there were no signs of death by drowning. The lungs were not distended, and there was no water or foamy fluid in the airways. Rasputin was thrown into the water already dead"- Conclusion of the forensic expert Professor D.N. Kosorotova.

No poison was found in Rasputin's stomach. Possible explanations for this are that the cyanide in the cakes was neutralized by sugar or high temperature when cooked in the oven. His daughter reports that after Guseva's assassination attempt, Rasputin suffered from high acidity and avoided sweet foods. It is reported that he was poisoned with a dose capable of killing 5 people. Some modern researchers suggest that there was no poison - this is a lie to confuse the investigation.

There are a number of nuances in determining O. Reiner's involvement. At that time, there were two MI6 officers in St. Petersburg who could have committed murder: Yusupov's school friend Oswald Rayner and Captain Stephen Alley, who was born in the Yusupov Palace. Both families were close to Yusupov, and it is difficult to say who exactly killed. The former was suspected, and Tsar Nicholas II directly mentioned that the killer was Yusupov’s school friend. Reiner was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1919, and destroyed his papers before his death in 1961. Compton's driver's log records that he brought Oswald to Yusupov (and another officer, Captain John Scale) a week before the assassination, and for the last time - on the day of the murder. Compton also directly hinted at Rayner, saying that the killer was a lawyer and was born in the same city as him. There is a letter from Alley written to Scale 8 days after the murder: “ Although not everything went according to plan, our goal was achieved... Rayner is covering his tracks and will undoubtedly contact you for instructions.“According to modern British researchers, the order to three British agents (Rayner, Alley and Scale) to eliminate Rasputin came from Mansfield Smith-Cumming (the first director of MI6).

The investigation lasted two and a half months until the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II on March 2, 1917. On this day, Kerensky became Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government. On March 4, 1917, he ordered a hasty termination of the investigation, while investigator A. T. Vasiliev (arrested during the February Revolution) was transported to the Peter and Paul Fortress, where he was interrogated by the Extraordinary Commission of Investigation until September, and later emigrated.

Version about the English conspiracy

In 2004, the BBC aired the documentary Who Killed Rasputin?, which brought new attention to the murder investigation. According to the version shown in the film, the “glory” and the idea of this murder belongs exclusively to Great Britain, the Russian conspirators were only the perpetrators, the control shot to the forehead was fired from the British officers’ Webley .455 revolver.

According to researchers motivated by the film and who published books, Rasputin was killed with the active participation of the British intelligence service Mi-6; the killers confused the investigation in order to hide the British trace. The motive for the conspiracy was the following: Great Britain feared Rasputin’s influence on the Russian Empress, which threatened the conclusion of a separate peace with Germany. To eliminate the threat, the conspiracy against Rasputin that was brewing in Russia was used.

It is also stated there that the next murder the British intelligence services planned immediately after the revolution was the murder of Joseph Stalin, who most loudly sought peace with Germany.

Funeral

Rasputin's funeral service was conducted by Bishop Isidor (Kolokolov), who was well acquainted with him. In his memoirs, A.I. Spiridovich recalls that Bishop Isidore celebrated the funeral mass (which he had no right to do).

They said later that Metropolitan Pitirim, who was approached about the funeral service, rejected this request. In those days, a legend was spread that the Empress was present at the autopsy and funeral service, which reached the English Embassy. It was a typical piece of gossip directed against the Empress.

At first they wanted to bury the murdered man in his homeland, in the village of Pokrovskoye. But due to the danger of possible unrest in connection with sending the body across half the country, they buried it in the Alexander Park of Tsarskoe Selo on the territory of the Church of Seraphim of Sarov, which was being built by Anna Vyrubova.

The burial was found, and Kerensky ordered Kornilov to organize the destruction of the body. For several days the coffin with the remains stood in a special carriage. Rasputin's body was burned on the night of March 11 in the furnace of the steam boiler of the Polytechnic Institute. An official act on the burning of Rasputin's corpse was drawn up.

Three months after Rasputin's death, his grave was desecrated. At the site of the burning, two inscriptions are inscribed on a birch tree, one of which is in German: “Hier ist der Hund begraben” (“A dog is buried here”) and then “The corpse of Rasputin Grigory was burned here on the night of March 10-11, 1917.” .

About 100 years have already passed since the events that can be called turning points in the historical fate of Russia and the whole world - the October Revolution of 1917, the execution of the royal family on the night of July 16-17, 1918, the proclamation of Russia as a Soviet republic on October 25, 1917 , and then on January 10, 1918 - a Soviet federal socialist republic.

In historical vicissitudes XX century, one historical figure stands out especially clearly. Some historians speak of him as a man of extraordinary spirituality, while others have surrounded his name with clods of dirt - defamatory slander. As you may have guessed, we are talking about Grigory Rasputin. Among the controversies, speculations, rumors and myths that are associated with his personality, there is a truth that few people know about, and now this truth has been revealed.

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin was born on January 10 (old style) 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province. Grisha grew up as the only child in the family. Since his father had no assistants other than him, Grigory began to work early. This is how he lived, grew up and, in general, did not stand out among other peasants. But around 1892, changes began to occur in the soul of young Grigory Rasputin.

The period of his distant wanderings to the holy places of Russia begins. Wandering for Rasputin was not an end in itself, it was only a way of introducing spirituality into life. At the same time, Gregory condemned wanderers who avoid labor. He himself invariably returned home for sowing and harvesting.

A decade and a half of wanderings and spiritual searches turned Rasputin into a man, wise by experience, oriented in the human soul, capable of giving useful advice. This all attracted people to him. In October 1905, Grigory Rasputin was presented to the sovereign. From that moment on, Grigory Efimovich devoted his entire life to serving the Tsar. He gives up wandering and lives for a long time in St. Petersburg.

Lifestyle and views of Grigory Rasputin in fullfit into the traditional worldview of the Russian people. The system of traditional values of Rus' was crowned and harmonized by the idea of royal power. “In the homeland,” writes Grigory Rasputin, “one must love the homeland and the priest installed in it - the king - God’s anointed!” But Rasputin deeply despised politics and many politicians, meaning, of course, the shameful politicking and intrigue carried out by people like Guchkov, Miliukov, Rodzianko, Purishkevich. “All politics is harmful,” said Rasputin, “politics is harmful... Do you understand? - All these Purishkeviches and Dubrovins amuse the demon, serve the demon. Serve the people... That's politics for you... And the rest comes from the evil one... You see, from the evil one...” “You need to live for the people, think about them...” - Grigory Efimovich liked to say.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, thanks to the efforts of the tsarist government and the outstanding statesmen who selflessly served it, such as Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, the Russian Empire had all the conditions to claim the status of a leading world power.

This situation could not go unnoticed by the Archons (in Greek this word is translated as “chiefs”, “rulers”. But if you dig deeper into history, the true meaning of this word is revealed, which means “rulers of the world”). In successfully developing Russia, a revolutionary situation was artificially created, after some time the February Revolution was financed, then the Provisional Government was brought to power. As a result, in a relatively short period of time, the Russian Empire was destroyed.

Around 1910, an organized slander campaign began against Rasputin in the press. He is accused of horse stealing, belonging to the Khlysty sect, debauchery, and drunkenness. Despite the fact that none of these accusations were confirmed during the investigation, the slander in the press did not stop. Who and what did the elder interfere with? Why was he hated? In order to answer this question, it is necessary to get acquainted with the nature of the activities of Russian Freemasonry of the twentieth century.

Archons are people who weave together world capital, politics and religion in their lodges and secret societies. These secret lodges and societies were called differently at different times. For example, one of the first influential circles of the Archons has been known since ancient times under the name “Freemasons”. " Ma ç on "translated from French literally means "mason". Masons - this is how the “Freemasons” began to call one of their new religious and political organizations, which they founded in England in XVIII century. The first Russian Masonic lodges arose in the 18th century as branches of the Masonic orders of Western Europe, from the very beginning reflecting the political interests of the latter. Representatives of foreign countries tried to influence Russia's domestic and foreign policy through Masonic connections. The main goal of the members of Russian Masonic lodges was to overthrow the existing government system. In their circle, the Freemasons viewed their organization as a gathering center for revolutionary forces. Masonic lodges provoked anti-government protests in every possible way and prepared conspiracies against the tsar and those close to him.

So, in order to significantly weaken a number of European states, including Russia, and at the same time raise the US economy to the level of a world leader, the Archons provoked the First World War. The reason for the war was the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, associated with the murder of the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia in Sarajevo.

This crime was committed by Serbian killers belonging to the occult secret society "Black Hand". Then Austria-Hungary presented Serbia with an impossible ultimatum in advance, and then declared war. Germany declared war on Russia, Great Britain on Germany. Grigory Efimovich was sure that the war with Germany would be a huge disaster for Russia, which would have tragic consequences.

“Germany is a royal country. Russia too... Fighting them with each other is inviting a revolution,” said Grigory Rasputin. Let us remember that the tsar, queen and their children believed in Gregory as a man of God and loved him; the sovereign listened to his advice when it came to Russia’s domestic and foreign policy. That is why the instigators of the First World War were so afraid of Rasputin, and that is why they decided to kill him on the same day and hour as the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Rasputin was then seriously wounded and, while he was unconscious, Nikolai II was forced to begin general mobilization in response to Germany's declaration of war on Russia. In fact, the result of the First World War was the simultaneous collapse of three powerful empires: Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian.

It should be said that back in 1912, when Russia was ready to intervene in the First Balkan War (September 25 (October 8), 1912 - May 17 (30), 1913), it was Rasputin on his knees who begged the Tsar not to engage in hostilities. 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."

As for the internal politics of the Russian state, here Rasputin warned the tsar against many decisions that threatened the country with disaster: he was against the last convocation of the Duma, and asked not to publish seditious speeches in the Duma. On the very eve of the February Revolution, Grigory Efimovich insisted on the supply of food to Petrograd - bread and butter from Siberia, he even came up with the packaging of flour and sugar in order to 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. The facts described above are only a small part of Rasputin’s service to his sovereign and people.

The enemies of Russia understood that Rasputin’s activities posed a significant threat to their destructive plans. Rasputin’s killer, a member of the Mayak Masonic society, Felix Yusupov, testified: “The sovereign believes in Rasputin to such an extent that if there had been a popular uprising, the people would have marched to Tsarskoe Selo, the troops sent against them would have fled or gone over to the side of the rebels, and with the sovereign If only Rasputin had remained and told him “don’t be afraid,” he would not have retreated.”Felix Yusupov also said: “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, so the elimination of Rasputin will have good consequences for the revolution.”

Before the persecution began against him, Rasputin was known as a pious peasant and spiritual ascetic.Count Sergei Yurievich Witte said about Rasputin: “Truly, there is nothing more talented than a talented Russian man. What a peculiar, what an original type! Rasputin is an absolutely honest and kind person, always wanting to do good and willingly giving money to those in need.” After the Masonic scheme of disinformation was launched, a friend of the royal family appeared before society in the image of a libertine, a drunkard, the lover of the queen, many ladies-in-waiting and dozens of other women. The high state position of the royal family obliged the tsar and tsarina to secretly verify the accuracy of the information they received discrediting Rasputin. And each time the king and queen became convinced that everything said was fabrication and slander.The slander campaign against Grigory Efimovich was organized by the Freemasons with the aim not so much of discrediting the personality of Rasputin himself, but with the aim of discrediting the personality of the Tsar. After all, it was the tsar who symbolized the Russian state itself, which the Archons wanted to destroy through the activities of the Masonic lodges under their control.

“We think that we will not be far from the truth,” the Moskovskie Vedomosti newspaper wrote in 1914, “if we say that Rasputin - a “newspaper legend” and Rasputin - a real man of flesh and blood - have little in common with each other. Rasputin was created by our press, his reputation was inflated and soared to the point that from a distance it could seem like something extraordinary. Rasputin has become some kind of gigantic ghost, casting his shadow over everything.” “Who needed this? – asked Moskovskie Vedomosti and answered: “Firstly, the left attacked. These attacks were purely partisan in nature. Rasputin was identified with the modern regime; they wanted to brand the existing system with his name. All the arrows aimed at Rasputin did not actually fly at him. It was needed only to compromise, dishonor, and stain our time and our lives. They wanted to brand Russia with his name.”

The physical murder of Rasputin was the logical conclusion of his moral murder, which had already been committed against him by that time. In December 1916, the elder was treacherously lured into the house of Felix Yusupov and killed.

Grigory Rasputin himself said: “Love is such a gold mine that no one can describe its value.” “If you love, you won’t kill anyone.” “All the commandments are submissive to love; there is great wisdom in her, more than in Solomon.”

Using such historical examples, we can see that certain events on a global scale or a single country are always the result of the purposeful creative or destructive activities of specific people. Looking at the situation that has developed in the world today, we can draw parallels with the recent past and try to understand what forces are currently operating in the arena of world politics.

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Brief biography of Rasputin

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin was born on January 21, 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province. He grew up in a simple family and saw with his own eyes all the hardships and sorrows of peasant life.

His mother's name was Anna Vasilyevna, and his father's name was Efim Yakovlevich - he worked as a coachman.

Childhood and youth

Rasputin’s biography was marked from birth, because little Grisha was his parents’ only child who managed to survive. Before him, three children were born into the Rasputin family, but they all died in infancy.

Gregory led a rather secluded life and had little contact with his peers. The reason for this was poor health, because of which he was teased and avoided communicating with him.

While still a child, Rasputin began to show a keen interest in religion, which would accompany him throughout his biography.

From early childhood he liked to be close to his father and help him with housework.

Since there was no school in the village in which Rasputin grew up, Grisha did not receive any education, however, like other children.

One day, at the age of 14, he became so ill that he was close to death. But suddenly, in some miraculous way, his health improved and he completely recovered.

It seemed to the boy that he owed his healing to the Mother of God. It was from this moment in his biography that the young man began to study the Holy Scriptures and memorize prayers in various ways.

Pilgrimage

Soon the teenager discovered that he had a prophetic gift, which in the future would make him famous and radically influence both his own life and, in many ways, the life of the Russian Empire.

Upon turning 18, Grigory Rasputin decides to make a pilgrimage to the Verkhoturye Monastery. Then he, without stopping, continues his wanderings, as a result of which he visits Mount Athos in Greece, and.

During this period of his biography, Rasputin met various monks and representatives of the clergy.

The Royal Family and Rasputin

The life of Grigory Rasputin changed radically when, at the age of 35, he visited.

At first he experienced serious financial difficulties. But since during his wanderings he managed to meet various spiritual figures, Gregory was provided with support through the church.

Thus, Bishop Sergius not only helped him financially, but also introduced him to Archbishop Feofan, who was the confessor of the royal family. At that point in time, many had already heard about the insightful gift of an unusual wanderer named Gregory.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was going through some hard times. In the state, peasant strikes occurred in one place after another, accompanied by attempts to overthrow the current government.

Added to all this was the Russo-Japanese War, which ended, which became possible thanks to special diplomatic qualities.

It was during this period that Rasputin met and made a strong impression on him. This event becomes a turning point in the biography of Grigory Rasputin.

Soon the emperor himself was looking for an opportunity to talk with the wanderer on various topics. When Grigory Efimovich met Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, he endeared her to himself even more than her royal husband.

It is worth noting that such a close relationship with the royal family was also explained by the fact that Rasputin participated in the treatment of their son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia.

The doctors could not do anything to help the unfortunate boy, but the old man somehow miraculously managed to treat him and have a beneficial effect on him. Because of this, the empress idolized and defended her “savior” in every possible way, considering him a man sent from above.

This is not surprising, because how else can a mother react to a situation when her only son is severely suffering from attacks of illness, and the doctors cannot do anything. As soon as the wondrous old man took the sick Alexei in his arms, he immediately calmed down.

The Royal Family and Rasputin

According to historians and biographers of the tsar, Nicholas 2 repeatedly consulted with Rasputin on various political issues. Many government officials knew about this, and therefore Rasputin was simply hated.

After all, not a single minister or adviser could influence the emperor’s opinion the way an illiterate man who came from the outback could do.

Thus, Grigory Rasputin took part in all state affairs. It is also worth noting that during this period of his biography he did everything possible to prevent Russia from being drawn into the First World War.

As a result of this, he made himself many powerful enemies from among the officials and nobility.

Conspiracy and murder of Rasputin

So, a conspiracy was drawn up against Rasputin. Initially, they wanted to politically destroy him through various accusations.

He was accused of endless drunkenness, dissolute behavior, magic and other sins. However, the imperial couple did not take this information seriously and continued to trust him completely.

When this idea was not successful, they decided to literally destroy it. The conspiracy against Rasputin involved Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Jr. and Vladimir Purishkevich, who held the post of state councilor.

The first unsuccessful assassination attempt was made by Khionia Guseva. The woman pierced Rasputin’s stomach with a knife, but he still survived, although the wound was really serious.

At that moment, when he was lying in the hospital, the emperor decided to participate in the military conflict. However, Nicholas 2 still completely trusted “his friend” and consulted with him on the correctness of certain actions. This further aroused hatred among the king’s opponents.

Every day the situation became tense, and a group of conspirators decided to kill Grigory Rasputin at any cost. On December 29, 1916, they invited him to the palace of Prince Yusupov, under the pretext of meeting a beauty who was looking for a meeting with him.

The elder was led into the basement, assured that the lady herself would now join them. Rasputin, not suspecting anything, calmly went downstairs. There he saw a table laid with delicious treats and his favorite wine - Madeira.

While waiting, he was offered to try cakes that had been previously poisoned with potassium cyanide. However, after he ate them, for some unknown reason the poison had no effect.

This brought supernatural horror to the conspirators. Time was extremely limited, so after some deliberation they decided to shoot Rasputin with a pistol.

He was shot several times in the back, but this time he did not die, and was even able to run out into the street. There he was shot several more times, after which the killers began beating and kicking him.

The victim's body was then wrapped in a carpet and thrown into the river. Below you can see Rasputin's body recovered from the river.

An interesting fact is that medical examination proved that even being in icy water, after poisoned cakes and many point-blank shots, Rasputin was still alive for several hours.

Personal life of Rasputin

The personal life of Grigory Rasputin, like, in fact, his entire biography, is shrouded in many secrets. What is known for certain is that his wife was a certain Praskovya Dubrovina, who bore him daughters Matryona and Varvara, as well as a son, Dmitry.

Rasputin with his children

In the 30s of the 20th century, the Soviet authorities arrested them and sent them to special settlements in the North. Their further fate is unknown, except for Matryona, who in the future managed to escape to.

Predictions of Grigory Rasputin

At the end of his life, Rasputin made several predictions about the fate of Emperor Nicholas II and the future of Russia. In them, he prophesied that Russia would face several revolutions and that the emperor and his entire family would be killed.

In addition to this, the elder foresaw the creation of the Soviet Union and its subsequent collapse. Rasputin also predicted Russia's victory over Germany in the great war and its transformation into a powerful state.

He also spoke about our days. For example, Rasputin argued that the beginning of the 21st century would be accompanied by terrorism, which would begin to flourish in the West.

He also prophesied that in the future, Islamic fundamentalism, known today as Wahhabism, would be formed.

Photo of Rasputin

The widow of Grigory Rasputin Paraskeva Feodorovna with her son Dmitry and his wife. The housekeeper is standing behind.
Accurate recreation of the murder site of Grigory Rasputin
Rasputin's killers (from left to right): Dmitry Romanov, Felix Yusupov, Vladimir Purishkevich

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Grigory Rasputin

On December 30, 1916, Grigory Rasputin, a native of peasants and a friend of the family of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, was brutally murdered in St. Petersburg.

Among the numerous names of Russian prophets and clairvoyants, there is hardly one that would be so widely known in our country and abroad as the name Grigory Rasputin. And it is unlikely that another name from this series would be found around which an equally dense network of mysteries and legends would be woven.

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin

At the end of the 20th century, many secrets of Russian history were revealed to us, however, most of them belong to the so-called Soviet period. But the threshold of this period, and Rasputin’s life, as we know, ended at the very end of 1916, appears before us more and more clearly today. And, of course, without the personality of Grigory Rasputin, without revealing the true essence of his prophecies and prophetic gift, the picture of that relatively recent era will be incomplete. Documents, their careful analysis, comparison of a variety of evidence and other sources make it possible to dispel the fog that hides the image of Rasputin from us.
In the mid-19th century, a peasant from the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province, Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin, at the age of twenty, married a twenty-two-year-old girl, Anna Vasilyevna Parshikova. The wife repeatedly gave birth to daughters, but they died. The first boy, Andrei, also died. From the census of the village population for 1897, it is known that on the tenth of January 1869 (the day of Gregory of Nyssa according to the Julian calendar), her second son was born, named after the calendar saint.

In the metric book of Pokrovskaya Sloboda, in part one “About those born” it is written: “A son, Grigory, was born to Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin and his wife Anna Vasilievna of the Orthodox faith.” He was baptized on January 10. The godfathers (godparents) were uncle Matfei Yakovlevich Rasputin and the girl Agafya Ivanovna Alemasova. The baby received his name according to the existing tradition of naming the child after the saint on whose day he was born or baptized. The day of baptism of Grigory Rasputin is January 10, the day of celebration of the memory of St. Gregory of Nyssa.

However, the registry books of the rural church have not been preserved, and later Rasputin always gave different dates of his birth, hiding his real age, so the exact day and year of Rasputin’s birth is still unknown.

Rasputin's father drank a lot at first, but then he came to his senses and started a household.

According to the stories of fellow villagers, he was a smart and efficient man: he had an eight-room hut, twelve cows, eight horses and was engaged in private carriage. In general, I was not in poverty. And the village of Pokrovskoye itself was considered in the district and in the province - relative to neighboring villages - to be a rich village, since Siberians did not know the poverty of European Russia, did not know serfdom and were distinguished by their self-esteem and independence.

In the winter he worked as a coachman, and in the summer he plowed the land, fished and unloaded barges.

Very little information has been preserved about Rasputin’s mother. She died when Gregory was not even eighteen years old. After her death, Rasputin said that she often appears to him in a dream and calls him to her, foreshadowing that he will die before he reaches her age. She died barely over fifty years old, while Rasputin died at the age of forty-seven.

Young Gregory was frail and dreamy, but this did not last long - as soon as he matured, he began to fight with his peers and parents, and to go for walks (once he managed to drink away a cart with hay and horses at a fair, after which he walked home eighty miles on foot). Fellow villagers recalled that already in his youth he possessed powerful sexual magnetism. Grishka was caught more than once with girls and beaten.

Soon Rasputin began to steal, for which he was almost deported to Eastern Siberia. One day he was beaten for yet another theft - so much so that Grishka, according to the villagers, became “strange and stupid.” Rasputin himself claimed that after being stabbed in the chest with a stake, he was on the verge of death and experienced “the joy of suffering.” The injury did not go away without a trace - Rasputin stopped drinking and smoking.

Nineteen years old Grigory Rasputin married Praskovya Dubrovina, a fair-haired and black-eyed girl from a neighboring village. She was four years older than her husband, but their marriage, despite Gregory’s adventurous life, turned out to be happy. Rasputin constantly took care of his wife and children - two daughters and a son.

However, worldly passions and vices were not alien to Gregory. According to fellow villagers (who, however, must be treated very carefully), Gregory had a wild and riotous nature: along with charitable deeds, he stole horses while drunk, loved to fight, used foul language, in a word, his marriage did not calm him down. “Grishka the thief” they called him behind his back. “Stealing hay, taking away other people’s firewood - that was his business. He was very rowdy and carousing... How many times they beat him: they pushed him in the neck, like an annoying drunkard, swearing in choice words.”

Moving from peasant labor to peasant revelry, Grigory lived in his native Pokrovsky until he was twenty-eight years old, until an inner voice called him to another life, to the life of a wanderer. In 1892, Gregory went to the provincial town of Verkhotursk (Perm province), to the Nikolaevsky Monastery, where the relics of St. Simeon of Verkhoturye were kept, and pilgrims from all over Russia came to venerate them.

Rasputin considered himself to be among those people who in Russia have long been called “elders,” “wanderers.” This is a purely Russian phenomenon, and its source is in the tragic history of the Russian people.
Hunger, cold, pestilence, and the cruelty of a tsarist official are the eternal companions of the Russian peasant. Where and from whom can we expect consolation? Only from those against whom even the all-powerful government, not recognizing its own laws, did not dare raise its hand - from people not of this world, from wanderers, holy fools and clairvoyants. In the popular consciousness, these are God's people.
In suffering, in grave torment, the country emerging from the Middle Ages, not knowing what awaited it ahead, looked superstitiously at these amazing people - wanderers, walkers, not afraid of anything or anyone, who dared to speak the truth loudly. Often, wanderers were called elders, although according to the concepts of that time, a thirty-year-old person could sometimes be considered an old man.

Rasputin and his fellow countryman and friend Mikhail Pecherkin went to Athos, and from there to Jerusalem. They walked most of the way, enduring many hardships. But the suffering, spiritual and physical, paid off handsomely when they saw with their own eyes the Garden of Gethsemane, the Mount of Olives (Eleon), and the Holy Sepulcher, and Bethlehem.

Holy Sepulcher
Returning to Russia, Rasputin continued to travel. Was in Kyiv, Trinity-Sergiev, Solovki, Valaam, Sarov, Pochaev, Optina Pustyn, in Nilova, the Holy Mountains, that is, in all places somewhat famous for their holiness.

Optina Pustyn

His family laughed at him. He did not eat meat or sweets, heard different voices, walked from Siberia to St. Petersburg and back, and ate alms. In the spring, he had exacerbations - he did not sleep for many days in a row, sang songs, shook his fists at Satan and ran in the cold in his shirt.

His prophecies consisted of calls to repentance “before trouble comes.” Sometimes, by pure coincidence, trouble happened the very next day (huts burned, livestock got sick, people died) - and the peasants began to believe that the blessed man had the gift of foresight. He gained followers.

At the age of 33, Gregory begins to storm St. Petersburg. Having secured recommendations from provincial priests, he settles with the rector of the Theological Academy, Bishop Sergius, the future Stalinist patriarch.

Patriarch Sergius

He, impressed by the exotic character, introduces the “old man” (long years of wandering on foot gave the young Rasputin the appearance of an old man) to the powers that be. Thus began the path of the “man of God” to glory.

Rasputin's first loud prophecy was the prediction of the death of our ships at Tsushima. Perhaps he got it from newspaper news reports that a squadron of old ships had sailed to meet the modern Japanese fleet without observing secrecy measures.

Russian squadron in the Battle of Tsushima

He dissuaded the weak-willed monarchs from escaping to England (they say they were already packing their things), which most likely would have saved them from death and would have sent Russian history in a different direction. The next time, he gave the Romanovs a miraculous icon (found from them after the execution), then allegedly healed Tsarevich Alexei, who had hemophilia, and eased the pain of Stolypin’s daughter, wounded by terrorists.

Rasputin and Tsarevich Alexei

The shaggy man forever captured the hearts and minds of the august couple. The Emperor personally arranges for Gregory to change his dissonant surname to “New” (which, however, did not stick). Soon Rasputin-Novykh acquires another lever of influence at court - the young maid of honor Anna Vyrubova (a close friend of the queen) who idolizes the “elder”.

Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova

He becomes the confessor of the Romanovs and comes to the tsar at any time without making an appointment for an audience. At court, Gregory was always “in character,” but outside the political scene he was completely transformed. Having bought himself a new house in Pokrovskoye, he took noble St. Petersburg fans there. There the “elder” put on expensive clothes, became self-satisfied, and gossiped about the king and nobles.

Rasputin's house in Pokrovskoye

Every day he showed the queen (whom he called “mother”) miracles: he predicted the weather or the exact time of the king’s return home. It was then that Rasputin made his most famous prediction: “As long as I live, the dynasty will live.” The growing power of Rasputin did not suit the court.

house on the street Gorokhovaya where Rsputin lived

Cases were brought against him, but each time the “elder” very successfully left the capital, going either home to Pokrovskoye or on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In 1911, the Synod spoke out against Rasputin. Bishop Hermogenes (who ten years ago expelled a certain Joseph Dzhugashvili from the theological seminary) tried to drive out the devil from Gregory and publicly beat him on the head with a cross.

Rasputin was under police surveillance, which did not stop until his death. Rasputin learned to read and write only in St. Petersburg. He left behind only short notes filled with terrible scribbles. Rasputin did not save money, either starving or throwing it left and right. He seriously influenced the country's foreign policy, twice persuading Nicholas not to start a war in the Balkans (inspiring the Tsar that the Germans were a dangerous force, and the “brothers,” i.e., the Slavs, were pigs).

When World War I finally began, Rasputin expressed a desire to come to the front to bless the soldiers. The commander of the troops, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, promised to hang him on the nearest tree.

In response, Rasputin gave birth to another prophecy that Russia would not win the war until an autocrat (who had a military education, but showed himself to be an incompetent strategist) stood at the head of the army. The king, of course, led the army. With consequences known to history. Politicians actively criticized the Tsarina, the “German spy,” not forgetting Rasputin.

It was then that the image of a “gray eminence” was created, resolving all state issues, although in fact Rasputin’s power was far from absolute. German zeppelins scattered leaflets over the trenches, where the Kaiser leaned on the people, and Nicholas II on Rasputin’s genitals.

The priests also did not lag behind. It was announced that the murder of Grishka was a good thing, for which “forty sins would be removed.”

On July 29, 1914, the mentally ill Khionia Guseva stabbed Rasputin in the stomach, shouting: “I killed the Antichrist!” The wound was fatal, but Rasputin pulled out. According to his daughter’s recollections, he had changed since then - he began to get tired quickly and took opium for pain.

Murder of Rasputin

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin

An important role in the rapid rise of Grigory Efimovich was played by his gift as a healer. Tsarevich Alexei suffered from hemophilia. His blood did not clot, and any small cut could be fatal. Rasputin had the ability to stop bleeding. He sat down next to the wounded heir to the throne, quietly whispered some words, and the wound stopped bleeding. The doctors could not do anything like that, and therefore the elder became an indispensable person for the royal family.

However, the rise of the newcomer caused discontent among many noble people. This was greatly facilitated by the behavior of Grigory Efimovich himself. He led a dissolute life (according to his surname) and radically influenced decisions that were fateful for Russia. That is, the elder was not distinguished by modesty and did not want to be content with the role of a court physician. Thus, he signed his own sentence, which everyone knows as the murder of Rasputin.

Conspirators

At the end of 1916, a conspiracy arose against the tsar's favorite. The conspirators included influential and noble people. These were: Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich Romanov (the emperor's cousin), Prince Yusupov Felix Feliksovich, State Duma deputy Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich, as well as lieutenant of the Preobrazhensky regiment Sergei Mikhailovich Sukhotin and military doctor Stanislav Sergeevich Lazovert.

F.F. Yusupov

Prince Yusupov with his wife Irina
It was in the Yusupov house that the murder of Rasputin was committed

There is also an opinion that a member of the conspiracy was British intelligence officer Oswald Rainer. Already in the 21st century, at the instigation of the BBC, the opinion arose that the conspiracy was organized by the British. Allegedly, they were afraid that the elder would persuade the emperor to make peace with Germany. In this case, the full power of the German machine would fall on Foggy Albion.

Oswald Reiner

As the BBC reported, Oswald Rainer knew Prince Yusupov from childhood. They had good friendly relations. Therefore, the Briton had no difficulty in persuading the high-society nobleman to organize a conspiracy. At the same time, an English intelligence officer was present at the murder of the tsar’s favorite and even allegedly fired a control shot in his head. All this bears little resemblance to the truth, if only because none of the conspirators subsequently mentioned a single word about the British’s involvement in the conspiracy. And there was no such thing as a “control shot” at all.

Dmitry Pavlovich Romanov

Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich Romanov (left)
and Purishkevich Vladimir Mitrofanovich

In addition, you need to take into account the mentality of people who lived 100 years ago. The murder of the almighty elder was considered the work of the Russian people. Prince Yusupov, out of noble motives, would never have allowed his English friend to be present at the execution of the tsar's favorite. In any case, it was a criminal offense, and, therefore, punishment could follow. And the prince could not allow this to happen to a citizen of another country.

Thus, we can conclude that there were only 5 conspirators, and all of them were Russian people. A noble desire burned in their souls to save the royal family and Russia from the machinations of ill-wishers. Grigory Efimovich was considered the culprit of all evils. The conspirators naively believed that by killing the old man, they would change the inevitable course of history. However, time has shown that these people were deeply mistaken.

Chronology of Rasputin's murder

The murder of Rasputin occurred on the night of December 17, 1916. The crime scene was the house of the Yusupov princes in St. Petersburg on the Moika.

A basement room was prepared in it. They set up chairs, a table, and placed a samovar on it. The plates were filled with cakes, macaroons and chocolate chip cookies. A large dose of potassium cyanide was added to each of them. A tray with bottles of wine and glasses was placed on a separate table nearby. They lit the fireplace, threw the bearskin on the floor and went for the victim.

Prince Yusupov went to pick up Grigory Efimovich, and the doctor Lazovert was driving the car. The reason for the visit was far-fetched. Allegedly, Felix’s wife Irina wanted to meet the elder. The prince telephoned him in advance and arranged a meeting. Therefore, when the car arrived on Gorokhovaya Street, where the favorite of the royal family lived, Felix was already expected.

Rasputin, dressed in a luxurious fur coat, left the house and got into the car. He immediately set off, and after midnight the trio returned to the Moika to the Yusupovs’ house. The remaining conspirators gathered in a room on the 2nd floor. They turned on the lights everywhere, turned on the gramophone and pretended to be a noisy party.

V.M. Purishkevich, Lieutenant S.M. Sukhotin, F.F. Yusupov

Felix explained to the elder that his wife had guests. They should leave soon, but for now you can wait in the lower room. At the same time, the prince apologized, citing his parents. They could not stand the royal favorite. The elder knew about this, so he was not at all surprised when he found himself in a basement room that looked like a casemate.

Here the guest was offered to eat the sweets on the table. Grigory Efimovich loved cakes, so he ate them with pleasure. But nothing happened. For unknown reasons, potassium cyanide did not have any effect on the old man’s body. As if he was protected by supernatural forces.

Grigory Efimovich at home

After the cakes, the guest drank Madeira and began to show impatience at Irina’s absence. Yusupov expressed a desire to go upstairs and find out when the guests would finally leave. He left the basement and went up to the conspirators, who were eagerly awaiting the good news. But Felix disappointed them and plunged them into a state of bewilderment.

However, the execution had to be carried out, so the noble prince took the Browning and returned to the basement room. Entering the room, he immediately shot at Rasputin sitting at the table. He fell out of his chair onto the floor and fell silent. The rest of the conspirators appeared and carefully examined the old man. Grigory Efimovich was not killed, but the bullet that hit him in the chest mortally wounded him.

Having enjoyed the sight of the agonizing body, the whole company left the room, turning off the light and closing the door. After some time, Prince Yusupov went downstairs to check if the elder had already died. He went into the basement and approached Grigory Efimovich, who was lying motionless. The body was still warm, but there was no doubt that the soul had already separated from it.

Felix was about to call the others to load the dead man into the car and take him out of the house. Suddenly the old man’s eyelids trembled and opened. Rasputin stared at his killer with a piercing gaze.

Then the incredible happened. The elder jumped to his feet, screamed wildly and dug his fingers into Yusupov’s throat. He strangled and constantly repeated the name of the prince. He fell into indescribable horror and tried to free himself. The fight began. Finally, the prince managed to escape from the tenacious embrace of Grigory Efimovich. At the same time, he fell to the floor. An epaulette from the prince's military uniform remained in his hand.

Felix ran out of the room and rushed upstairs for help. The conspirators rushed down and saw an old man running towards the exit of the house. The front door was locked, but the mortally wounded man pushed it with his hand, and it opened. Rasputin found himself in the yard and ran through the snow to the gate. If he had found himself on the street, it would have meant the end for the conspirators.

Purishkevich rushed after the fleeing man. He shot him in the back once, then a second time, but missed. It should be noted that Vladimir Mitrofanovich was considered an excellent shooter. From a hundred steps he hit the silver ruble, but then he couldn’t hit the wide back from 30. The elder was already near the gate when Purishkevich carefully took aim and fired a third time. The bullet finally reached its target. It hit Grigory Efimovich in the neck, and he stopped. Then the 4th shot sounded. A piece of hot lead pierced the old man’s head, and the mortally wounded man fell to the ground.

The conspirators ran up to the body and hastily carried it into the house. However, loud shots in the night attracted the police. A policeman arrived at the house to find out their reason. He was told that they shot at Rasputin, and the guardian of the law retreated without taking any measures.

After this, the old man’s body was placed in a closed car. But the mortally wounded man still showed signs of life. He wheezed, and the pupil of his open left eye rotated.

Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, Doctor Lazovert and Lieutenant Sukhotin got into the car. They took the body to Malaya Nevka and threw it into an ice hole. This ended the long and painful murder of Rasputin.

Conclusion

When the investigative authorities removed the corpse from the Neva 3 days later, the autopsy showed that the old man lived under water for another 7 minutes.

The amazing vitality of Grigory Efimovich’s body even today instills superstitious horror in the souls of people.

Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna ordered that the murdered man be buried in the far corner of the park in Tsarskoye Selo. An order was also given to build a mausoleum. A wooden chapel was erected next to the temporary grave. Members of the royal family visited there every week and prayed for the soul of the innocently murdered martyr.

After the February Revolution of 1917, the corpse of Grigory Efimovich was removed from the grave, taken to the Polytechnic Institute and burned in the furnace of his boiler room.

boiler room where Rasputin's body was cremated

As for the fate of the conspirators, they became extremely popular among the people. However, murderers have always been punished regardless of motives and motivations.

Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich was sent to the troops of General Baratov. They performed allied duty in Persia. This, by the way, saved the life of a member of the Romanov dynasty. When the revolution broke out in Russia, the Grand Duke was not in Petrograd.

Felix Yusupov was exiled to one of his estates. In 1918, the prince and his wife Irina left Russia. At the same time, he took crumbs from the entire huge fortune. These are jewelry and paintings. Their total cost was estimated at several hundred thousand royal rubles. Everything else was plundered and stolen by the rebel people.

As for Purishkevich, Lazovert and Sukhotin, all charges against them were dropped. The February Revolution and the personality of the man they killed played a role here. Only one thing is certain - this murder greatly increased their authority and prestige.

The murder of Rasputin has at all times given rise to many assumptions, conjectures and hypotheses. There are many dark spots in this matter. The amazing vitality of the old man causes particular bewilderment. Potassium cyanide and bullets could not take him. All this gives the crime a mystical component. This is quite possible, taking into account the fact that materialism has long ceased to be a fundamental teaching that denies everything unusual and supernatural that lives side by side with us.

The article was written by Vladimir Chernov

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin is an outstanding personality in history. His image is quite ambiguous and mysterious. Disputes about this man have been going on for almost a century.

Birth of Rasputin

Many still have not been able to decide who Rasputin is and what he actually became famous for in the history of Russia. He was born in 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye. Official information about the date of his birth is quite contradictory. Some historians believe that Grigory Rasputin's life years are 1864-1917. In his mature years, he himself did not clarify things, reporting various untrue data about the date of his birth. Historians believe that Rasputin liked to exaggerate his age in order to fit the image of an old man he himself created.

In addition, many explained such a strong influence on the royal family precisely by the presence of hypnotic abilities. Rumors about Rasputin's healing powers had been spreading since his youth, but even his parents did not believe in it. His father believed that he became a pilgrim only because he was very lazy.

Assassination attempt on Rasputin

There were several attempts on the life of Grigory Rasputin. In 1914, he was stabbed in the stomach and seriously wounded by Khionia Guseva, who came from Tsaritsyn. At that time she was under the influence of Hieromonk Iliodor, who was an opponent of Rasputin, since he saw him as his main competitor. Guseva was placed in a psychiatric hospital, considered mentally ill, and after some time she was released.

Iliodor himself more than once chased Rasputin with an ax, threatening to kill him, and also prepared 120 bombs for this purpose. In addition, there were also several more attempts on the life of the “holy elder,” but all of them were unsuccessful.

Predicting your own death

Rasputin had an amazing gift of providence, so he not only predicted his own death, but also the death of the royal family, and many other events. The empress's confessor, Bishop Feofan, recalled that Rasputin was once asked what the outcome of the meeting with the Japanese would be. He replied that Admiral Rozhdestvensky’s squadron would drown, which is what happened in the battle of Tsushima.

Once, while with the imperial family in Tsarskoe Selo, Rasputin did not allow them to have dinner in the dining room, saying that the chandelier might fall. They obeyed him, and literally 2 days later the chandelier actually fell.

They say that he left behind 11 more prophecies that are gradually coming true. He also predicted his own death. Shortly before the murder, Rasputin wrote a will with terrible prophecies. He said that if he was killed by peasants or hired killers, then nothing would threaten the imperial family and the Romanovs would remain in power for many years. And if the nobles and boyars kill him, then this will bring destruction to the House of Romanov and there will be no nobility in Russia for another 25 years.

The story of Rasputin's murder

Many people are interested in who Rasputin is and why he is famous in history. Moreover, his death was unusual and surprising. A group of conspirators were from wealthy families, under the leadership of Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, they decided to put an end to the unlimited power of Rasputin.

In December 1916, they lured him to a late dinner, where they tried to poison him by mixing potassium cyanide into cakes and wine. However, potassium cyanide had no effect. Yusupov got tired of waiting and shot Rasputin in the back, but the shot only provoked the old man more, and he rushed at the prince, trying to strangle him. His friends came to Yusupov’s aid, who shot Rasputin several more times and beat him severely. After that, they tied his hands, wrapped him in cloth and threw him into the hole.

According to some reports, Rasputin fell into the water while still alive, but could not get out, became hypothermic and choked, from which he died. However, there are records that he received mortal wounds while still alive and fell into the water of the Neva already dead.

Information about this, as well as the testimony of his killers, is quite contradictory, so it is not known exactly how this happened.

The series "Grigory Rasputin" is not entirely true to reality, since in the film he was made to be a tall and powerful man, although, in fact, he was short and sickly in his youth. According to historical facts, he was a pale, frail man with an exhausted appearance and sunken eyes. This is confirmed by police records.

There are quite contradictory and interesting facts in the biography of Grigory Rasputin, according to which he did not possess any extraordinary abilities. Rasputin is not the old man’s real name, it is just his pseudonym. Real name is Vilkin. Many believed that he was a ladies' man, constantly changing women, but contemporaries noted that Rasputin sincerely loved his wife and constantly remembered her.

There is an opinion that the “holy elder” was fabulously rich. Since he had influence at court, he was often approached with requests for large rewards. Rasputin spent part of the money on himself, as he built a 2-story house in his native village and purchased an expensive fur coat. He spent most of his money on charity and built churches. After his death, security services checked the accounts, but found no money in them.

Many said that Rasputin was actually the ruler of Russia, but this is absolutely not true, because Nicholas II had his own opinion on everything, and the elder was only allowed to sometimes advise. These and many other interesting facts about Grigory Rasputin show that he was completely different from what he was thought to be.

28.03.2023

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