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GRIGORY YEFIMOVICH RASPUTIN
1872 - 1916
Healer or Hoax,
but Mastermind of Persuasion
What a character.
So thought Alan Rickman
and agreed to play Rasputin in the movie
Rasputin.
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His real name was
Grigory Yefimovich
Novykh, and you can also spell it
Grigori.
They nicknamed him
Rasputin, which is Russian and means
debauched one, or debauchee.
According to
dictionary, a debauchee is one who is addicted
to vicious indulgence in sensual pleasures. |
So much for the
condensed evaluation of the man Grigory Y.
Novykh.
Rasputin's Family, Life, and Travels
Early
in his life, Rasputin quickly got his young wife
Proskovia Fyodorovna
four times pregnant.
As all responsible
fathers, Rasputin figured it was high time to
leave, and he traveled the world. Rasputin's
travels brought him as far as Jerusalem and
Mount Athos, Greece. If you would like to know
the exact location of Mount Athos, here's a map.
Look for the tiny red dot in the center of the
red circle.
MOUNT ATHOS ON A MAP THAT
WAS RELEVANT IN RASPUTIN'S DAYS
Click to enlarge
Today, you are
welcome to visit Mount Athos, also known as the
Holy Mountain, which is the home to many Greek
Orthodox monks. But you do have to be male. No
female is allowed near the Mount, be it human or
animal. So get a grip and grow a penis.
Back to Rasputin.
Rasputin continued
his cross-country wandering and ended up at St.
Petersburg where he eventually became the
Czarina's personal adviser (define adviser.)
Wee Alexis and Hemophilia
How
did Rasputin weasel his way into the inner
circles at the Russian Court? Czarina
Alexandra's son Alexis suffered from a disease
called hemophilia, also spelled haemophilia. If
you suffer from hemophilia your blood doesn't
clot. In other words, if you accidentally cut
yourself, you will bleed until you're empty.
Rasputin was somehow able to ease wee Alexis'
suffering, which ensured him the devoted
gratitude that only the mother of a sick child
can bestow.
Hemophilia is a
hereditary condition, meaning it's genetic.
Females are carriers, males are affected. And it
gets passed on like this, and the following is a
quote from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Transmission of hemophilia
(A) Mating of affected hemophilic man and
normal woman—all sons normal, all daughters
carriers. (B) Mating of carrier woman and
normal man—half of sons normal and half
affected; half of daughters carriers, half
normal.
TRANSMISSION OF HEMOPHILIA
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
In the case of wee
Alexis, the chart looks like this.
TRANSMISSION OF HEMOPHILIA
IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S FAMILY TREE
National Center for
Case Study Teaching in Science, University of
Buffalo
Click to enlarge
Enough of Alexis
and back to Rasputin.
So, Rasputin's
reputation was that of a healer and a seer, and
the ladies couldn't get enough of him. Enjoying
the ride, Rasputin was very fond of women,
preferably when they appeared in bunches. Here
we have him surrounded by some of his admirers.
RASPUTIN GIVING THE LADIES
WHAT THEY WANT
Photo: Liberty's
Victorious Conflict: A Photographic History of
the World War
(Woman's Weekly, Chicago, 1918)
How to Kill a Healer
Extreme Russian conservatives decided it was
time to end Rasputin's life and they invited him
for poison tea and cookies. But he ate and drank
it all without showing any sign of being
poisoned. His host, slightly unnerved, shot him
just to be on the safe side.
But the man
wouldn't die. Still kicking, Rasputin dragged
himself into the courtyard where he got shot
again. Seeing that he was still alive,
Rasputin's assassins ran out of patience,
adorned with heavy objects, and threw him into
the icy river Neva.
Officially, that
is where he drowned. Unofficially, he was seen
at a hot dog stand in Tijuana, talking to Elvis.
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Rasputin - Short Biography
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Sometime around 1872 |
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Birth in Pokrovskoye, Siberia |
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Sometime around 1890 |
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Turns religious |
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Sometime around 1891 |
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Marries
Proskovia |
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1903 |
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Arrives in St. Petersburg
after years of traveling |
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1905 |
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Gets introduced to the
royal family |
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1908 |
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Royal family asks him to
cure their son's sickness |
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September 5, 1915 |
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Nicholas II takes
over as commander-in-chief and goes to join his troops
in
World
War I. Left alone with Czarina Alexandra,
Rasputin is now more powerful than ever. |
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Night of December 29 / 30, 1916
(December 16 / 17,
old style) |
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Death in Petrograd
(today's St. Petersburg), Russia |
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