What is the story behind Grigori Rasputin?
Purple peace summed up his story best but here are a few other details: It was rumoured he was part of a cult that engaged in orgiastic worship. The idea was to be forgiven of sins you had to sin so by having sex they could be forgiven. This could have been propaganda against him along with his apparent liaisons with many wives of the Russian nobility. He’s exact prediction was: Tsar of the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigori has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have wrought my death, then no one in the family, that is to say, none of your children or relations, will remain alive for more than two years. They will be killed by the Russian people. It was also noted in the autopsy of his body that he had water in his lungs indicating that he may have died from drowning rather than freezing to death in the ice cold river.
if you don’t want to read my answer watch this link about his life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o6B_aq5-… Rasputin was a Russian monk who lived during the 1900’s. He had a reputation as a healer and was called apon by the Czarina Alexandra to help her son Alexi, who had a hereditary bleeding disease. Hemophilia. Apparently he was quite successful in helping the young child. With hemophilia the body is lacking a clotting factor so the slightest bump causes bleeding. The bleeding continues until enough blood builds up pressure to collapse the blood vessels, the blood doesn’t clot. So, frequently the little boy would spent days or weeks in bed after a fall, screaming in agony as his limbs would swell with internal bleeding until the pressure stopped it. This type of bleeding would cause crippling and painful damage to the joints and tissue of the body. It’s a hereditary d
