Grigori Rasputin: The Devil Incarnate

Grigori Rasputin was a Russian peasant who claimed to have mystical healing powers, and even said he was the second coming of Christ. He formed his own cult and even manipulated members of the Romanov royal family into believing that he really was a holy man. Once he had everyone under his control, he used his influence over the Russian government and his decisions contributed to the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years he claimed that he fought between the forces of good and evil. Many priests believed that his powers did not come from God at all and that he was actually the Antichrist.

Early life Grigori Rasputin was born on January 20, 1869 in a Siberian village called Pokrovskoye. For years, Siberia had been a dumping ground for Russian criminals, and penal colonies filled with men doing forced labor lived there. There were also people who had been exiled to Siberia for their religious or political beliefs. It is one of the coldest and most difficult places to live, and survival is a constant struggle. Rasputin's father was a peasant and messenger, and his mother gave birth to seven children before he was born. They all died during childbirth or in early childhood, so he was the first to survive the harsh Siberian winter.

When he was a child, he claimed that he would have visions of the future and that angels would appear in his dreams. He knew things about his neighbors that he couldn't possibly know, which was enough evidence for the locals to believe him. He could heal sick horses just by touching them. Some villagers believed that he was the second coming of Christ and that he had been touched by God. Others believe that he was demonic and that he could potentially be working with the

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. In his teens and 20s, it would seem that the latter was true, because he apparently behaved very badly.

He drank, stole, and generally got on everyone's nerves. At 28 he was married and had four children with his wife, whom he met in a neighboring town. He had a reputation as an abusive alcoholic and for cheating on his wife. One day he stole a horse. When word got out that he was a horse thief. Instead of facing the consequences, he galloped to a local monastery in search of refuge and ended up staying with the Christian brothers for several months. They had convinced him to find God and change his evil ways. A man named Makarij (pronounced Mah-Kah-Ree.

Silent J.) became his mentor and decided to join the order and become a monk. He abandoned his family to travel from place to place evangelizing in various towns. Many historians believe that if he spent so much time walking through the Siberian forest, it was almost certain that he would encounter a sect called the Khlystys. (pronounced like the girl's name Kristy, only with L. KLi-Stee) These people were a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and many of their members actually showed up for a regular mass on Sundays and had secret meetings in the forest. They believed that salvation could only be achieved by purging sin.

They performed ceremonies in which they strangled each other and released themselves at the last moment to get high from asphyxiation. They spoke in tongues and spun and danced until they were drunk. They would become frantic and then fall to the ground. Then they would let out their repressed desires by having sex with whoever was lying next to them in a massive orgy. Rasputin continued to travel and evangelize the Christian faith, but this was no ordinary visit from someone with a Bible. These “wandering” monks were not allowed to bathe, and Rasputin sometimes wore shackles while he walked to purposely feel pain.

This was supposed to be an atonement for his sins. When he returned to his village to see his family and friends again, he was a completely changed man. Her eyes looked at him with a frightening intensity and he said the visions of God were stronger than ever. Although he had just gotten home, he told his wife that he needed to use the basement as a meeting place for his religious group, where he continued to have orgies with his friends Khlysty. The Devil in St. Petersburg One day, Rasputin claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to him and told him to go to St.

Petersburg to help the royal family. The idea that the royal family could need the help of a peasant in Siberia was completely far-fetched. So how did someone like Rasputin get to the royal palace? It turns out that his mentor from his monastery, Makarij, was actually the Romonovs' former religious advisor. He was able to use Makarij's connections to attract noble clients who truly believed in Rasputin's abilities, and the people were amazed at his powers. The rich were willing to travel to Pokrovskoye to be cured by him. Makarij sent a letter of introduction to one of his friends in St.

Petersburg and Rasputin undertook a long journey to the city. He met Bishop Hermogen and a high-ranking priest named Sergei Trufanov, better known as "Illiador." At first, the men were surprised by Rasputin's disheveled appearance. He smelled terrible and the look on his face was really terrifying. He was able to dilate his eyes at will, making them appear almost completely black. But once the priests witnessed his healing ability, he said that he must be a saint endowed with the powers of God. But Rasputin really didn't care at all what people thought of him. He picked his nose and ate it in front of dignified people, and mocked aristocratic women for his airiness.

He became good friends with Princess Milica and Anastasia of Montenegro, who were nicknamed "The Crow Sisters" because of the shape of their noses. They were not Russian, but they still managed to marry into the Romanov family. In fact, both had been heavily involved in mysticism and the occult, and both manipulated their way into marrying into the royal family. They were often treated as outcasts by the rest of the aristocracy, so they joined Rasputin and took him under his protection. All of this came at the perfect time, because Tsarina Alexandra Romanov had just lost her first spiritual advisor, a man named Dr.

Phillipe. She believed that he helped her and Tsar Nicholas have a son and heir to the throne after having only daughters. He stated, on her deathbed, that very soon she would meet another Holy Man who would take her place. Almost immediately after this, the Raven Sisters presented Rasputin to the Tsar and Tsarina at a party. The sisters were the ones who helped Tsarina Alexandra find her former mystic, Dr. Phillipe. So, when Alexandra heard the stories of Rasputin's miraculous healing abilities, she knew that she wanted him to help her son Alexei. He was born with hemophilia, which is a condition that prevents blood from clotting.

This means that even a small scratch can lead to massive blood loss. They never told Rasputin about his son's condition at the party, and it was a secret they had tried to keep quiet. Alexandra was still thinking whether or not she could trust this Siberian peasant. But one day Alexei fell and scraped his knee and the bleeding didn't stop. Rasputin appeared out of nowhere at the royal palace demanding to see the child. He said that he had a vision from God: without him, the prince would die. In reality, he most likely learned of this inside information from the Raven Sisters, but the guards and the royal family were shocked and wondered how he could have known.

Once he was allowed to go see him, he told the doctors to leave so he could use his healing powers. Almost immediately, Alexei began to heal. This was enough to convince Alexandra that he really was a holy man who had magical healing powers. Modern scientists and historians believe that this was not magic, but was actually stopping doctors from giving Alexei aspirin, which would thin his blood and only make his hemophilia much worse. In just a few months, Rasputin became a regular member of the Romanov family mansion. He began giving drugs such as opium, morphine and cocaine to the tsar, claiming that they would help with his various ailments.

They took drugs together on a regular basis. The tsar became addicted, which only made him want Rasputin to come to the palace more often. The Tsarina suffered from migraines and anxiety, and Rasputin was able to relieve her pain and make her relax. Very soon, the Tsar and Tsarina began to feel dependent on him, and he began to visit him at least once a week. Rasputin called Alexandra and Nicolas "mom" and "dad" as if he were one of the children. He begins praying with the children at night and tells them bedtime stories. This made the nanny very nervous, because the older daughters were already beginning to go through puberty.

One of the maids also claimed that Rasputin had raped her. However, the Tsarina trusted Rasputin so much that she accused the maid of lying and fired her. The nanny tried to kick Rasputin out of the nursery. The children claimed that Rasputin was her friend and complained that the babysitter was bad, so they fired her too. It was clear that she had her teeth in the royal family and could get her way with almost anything. St. Petersburg newspapers began publishing stories about the incident, saying that Rasputin was literally left in the princess's bed. The cult that Rasputin follows lived in an apartment in Saint Petersburg where his followers came to meet him.

All these women would appear with a hot plate and celebrate shared parties. They gathered around a table with him sitting at the head. Rasputin sat silently staring into space, when he suddenly began to mutter something. The women immediately stopped talking, hoping to understand what he was trying to say. He would take a piece of paper and desperately write down his ideas of whatever he had in mind. For some crazy, explainable reason, this was incredibly attractive to these women. They believed he was the second coming of Christ and would offer to accompany him to his bedroom to have sexual relations with him.

One disciple in particular, Olga Lokhtina, had so much faith in him that she left her husband and her children to live in her apartment. She forced everyone to address him as "God." Witnesses opened the back door and saw Olga holding her penis and shouting, "You are Christ and I am yours!" And whoever entered this unfortunate scene slowly backed away and closed the door on their way out. After hearing about the scandal, police officers were ordered to follow him to see what he was doing. They reported that he hired prostitutes almost daily and took them to public bathrooms.

Now, you would think that if he paid for a bath daily, he might actually smell good. But according to testimonies, he took a prostitute to a private room where they both undressed. He would take his leather belt and begin beating the woman, claiming that she would beat the sin of lasciviousness out of her soul. Then he would have sex with her and leave the bathhouse without even touching the water. He was seen leaving a bathhouse holding his head and screaming at the demons he could feel inside him. He claimed that he could see the

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himself and that they were fighting a battle for his soul.

Obviously, this sounds like he was tripping on one of the many drugs he was taking. But do you remember those two priests, Bishop Hermogen and Iliadore? Well, they found out that Rasputin was shouting about demons in public, and it was ruining his reputation, since they were the ones who introduced Rasputin to St. Petersburg society in the first place. Hermogen and Iliadore ambushed Rasputin to confront him about what he was doing. They accused him of using the devil to have these healing powers. Hermogen grabbed Rasputin by the penis and shouted that he was thinking with that, instead of with his brain.

They came prepared with a giant wooden crucifix with which they beat him as bloodily as he would a prostitute in a bathhouse. But the power of Christ did not compel him. Rasputin betrayed the Tsarina and told her that they were trying to assassinate him. Hermogen and Iliadore were sent into exile, and Iliadore fled to Finland dressed as a woman so that no one could trace where he was going. At the same time, Rasputin decided that he needed a break from the city and visited his hometown in Siberia. The Failed Assassination Attempt It turns out that Iliadore was really trying to kill Rasputin, and then confessed all the details in a later biography.

He was convinced that Rasputin was the Antichrist, so he hired a disfigured prostitute named Khioniya Guseva to kill him. This woman had been so abused by a former client of hers that her nose was cut off from her face, leaving a gaping hole. Iliadore told her stories of how Rasputin beat and abused other sex workers. She showed up at his village and waited for him outside his house. Rasputin received a telegram in the mail and when he left his house. He needed to go to the post office to send a reply, when he noticed the woman was there looking at him.

He decided that she seemed like a perfect convert, so he came over to give her some alms and preach the gospel to her. When she was close enough to him, she stabbed him repeatedly in the stomach. She was so insistent on trying to kill him that she even dug her hands into his stomach and pulled out his intestines. That same day, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, and it was one of the many events that triggered the beginning of theFirst World War. Instead of being at the Tsar and Tsarina's side to give them advice, Rasputin was trapped in a hospital in Siberia, being cured. of his wounds.

After hearing the news of the impending Great War, Rasputin wrote a letter to the tsar begging him not to go to war. He wrote: “We will all drown in blood. The disaster is great, the misery infinite.” But the tsar did not want to listen to Rasputin. For the first time in his career, people cheered him on in the streets and supported the fight for the glory of Russia. The tsar left the royal palace so he could fight with the Russian soldiers. Alexandra was completely alone, and after Rasputin was cured, he returned to the royal palace and became his right-hand man and tsar by proxy.

Over the course of two years, Rasputin personally appointed several interior ministers, but he was completely uneducated in politics, so the men he put in power were completely incompetent. Millions of Russian men died in the war. People struggled to find work and the cost of bread doubled. On top of all this, the tsarina trusted a madman. The entire country had had enough. The Russian people almost had no choice but to make a revolution. The beginning of the end Although she survived the assassination attempt, Rasputin's health began to deteriorate and soon he could no longer heal people. He wrote in his diary that he knew he would die soon and that he had already made peace with it.

She believed that God was about to make a sacrifice to her to save the Russian people, similar to Jesus Christ dying on the cross. He wrote to Tsarina Alexandra: “If one of your relatives causes my death, none of your relatives will remain alive for more than two years. All of them will be killed by the Russian people. Tell your relatives that I have already paid them with my blood. They will kill me. I am no longer among the living. Pray and be strong.” During a meeting in Parliament, one of the politicians called Rasputin a dark force and said that he was sick and tired of this dirty peasant controlling the country and that he would kill him himself if he was not removed from power. .

Tsarina Alexandra's nephew was a man named Felix Yusupov, and he was one of the many people who wanted him dead. She heard a lot about Rasputin's reputation among the ladies. Yusupov was married to a woman named Irina and was considered one of the most beautiful women in the city of Saint Petersburg. Yusupov was rumored to be bisexual and the couple were swingers with an adventurous sex life. He invited Rasputin to join them, claiming that Irena had taken their open relationship too far and that he believed she suffered from a sex addiction. He said that he needed Rasputin's help to cure the demons within her.

After gaining Rasputin's trust, Yusupov met with two of his accomplices. In fact, they were planning to murder him. The men picked up Rasputin in a car and took him to the Yusupov mansion, where they took him to the basement dining room. The table had been set to look like they had just had a big party. They told him that Irena was with his guests upstairs and that she would come down later to have her “healing ceremony.” They encouraged him to eat and drink while they waited for her. Then, they began to hand him small cakes and glasses of wine.

Rasputin had no idea that all the food and drink was laced with cyanide. Two and a half hours later, Yusupov could not believe that Rasputin had not yet fallen dead. He began to believe the rumors that he really had demonic powers and that poison would not be enough to kill him. He ran up the stairs, grabbed his revolver, and returned to the basement, pointing the gun at Rasputin. The monk simply stood there, looking ahead. He did not plead for his life nor did he show any signs of fear. He shot Rasputin, who fell to the ground.

The men cheered and went up to celebrate. After a time of celebration, Yusupov began to feel a sense of dread. He went down to the basement with the doctor and leaned down to check the heartbeat. Rasputin's eyes widened and he lunged at Yusupov. The doctor fainted on the spot. Yusupov shook off the demon and went upstairs to tell his friends that Rasputin had come back to life. They ran to the basement and he was gone. He had climbed the basement stairs and was making his way stealthily across the yard. Yusupov shot him in the head at point-blank range and five other men took out their revolvers to riddle his body with bullets.

They put Rasputin's body in the trunk of the car and took it to the river, where they pushed it into a hole in the ice. When they later found his body, he had his hands raised, as if he was pressing them against the ice in an attempt to escape. There was water in his lungs, which suggested he was still breathing, even after all that. After hearing this story, people were convinced that he would really come back to life as a zombie. So they dug up his body and burned his remains, but not before cutting off and preserving his legendary penis.

It is now displayed in a museum in St. Petersberg. Shortly after his death, Rasputin's prophecy truly came true. The entire Romanov family was executed during the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia would never be the same.