Rasputin, which means 'debauched' one was a name he earned due to all his sexual endeavours, originally he was called Grigory Yefimovich Norvykh, who was born on the 10th January 1872 in Pokrovskye, a small village in Siberia he was of solid peasant stock. Although he went to school he was semi-illiterate but since a young age was believed to possess psychic powers, this was evident when his father was arguing over the theft of a horse and Rasputin who had been sick in bed for days got up and correctly picked out the thief.

As Rasputin grew up he was known for finding ways to get in trouble with the authorities for d

Fearing that the gunshot didn't kill Rasputin, he turned to check the room and Rasputin got up and began to choke him then he ran. He was then shot twice more, clubbed repeatedly with a dumb bell handle, tied up at the hands and dropped into the icy waters of the frozen Neva River. The cause of death was drowning. The aristocrat's attempts to save the tsarist regime by murdering Rasputin had failed, two months later Nicholas II was overthrown, the imperial family were imprisoned and many of the Romanov cousins were arrested during the Russian revolution of 1917 and 2 years later Nicholas and his entire family were executed by a firing squad. Rasputin's final prediction had been fulfilled and his dark legacy immortalised.

Rasputin was disliked in the Russian court and in the church. But Rasputin knew how to handle his enemies, all those who questioned or opposed him would find themselves sent to a remote assignment. When bishop Theophan eventually tried to warn the tsar of Rasputin he was relieved of his post and banished. Two former supporters of Rasputin, Illiador a zealous right wing monk, and Hermogen, bishop of Saratov, brutally attacked Rasputin and they were exiled.

From 1906- 1914 Rasputin's influence over the imperial family grew and so did the number of his enemies. His pervasive manipulation helped to destroy its reputation in pre-Revolutionary Russia. The orthodox clergymen, who once supported him, grew sceptical of his relationship with the czar and czarina. St Petersburg society also failed to understand how Rasputin came in such close proximity to the throne considering they were unaware of Alexis' illness. During this time rumour mills in St Petersburg accused Alexandra of romantic and sexual involvement with Rasputin and that he had used the czars four daughters as his sex toys. This was due to Rasputin's drunken ramblings about his exploits with Alexandra and saying he had Tsar Nicholas at his fingertips.

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