Mysterious life, mysterious death, mysterious coincidences. And certainly the miracles of prophecy and healing confirmed by witnesses. “Holy devil”, just a saint, devil, wizard, magician, sorcerer, sectarian, destroyer of the Fatherland, savior of the Fatherland - this is all about one person, a peasant from the former Tobolsk province, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin. Perhaps the most exciting legend of St. Petersburg, and a legend that really existed.

Let's start with some unexplained phenomena

A whole collection of miracles and myths has developed around a friend of the royal family (or rather, Friend, as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna called him in correspondence with her husband), and we are sure that most of them are the product of speculation, rich imagination and a person’s desire to believe in something. that is supernatural. Which is quite normal: in the end, it’s more interesting to live, and it’s not a sin to embellish a story in the kitchen over a royal or white glass with curious details that did not happen in reality.

However, there are episodes, events and coincidences that either actually took place or still do. And not just confirmed by eyewitnesses, but even filmed or identified by criminal police and forensic experts. Below we will talk about three phenomena, all of which relate to modern St. Petersburg, and not to semi-legendary times.

The icon suddenly lost myrrh

Do you remember the unexpected appearance of the then chief Crimean prosecutor, and now State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, with an icon of the penultimate Russian Emperor Nicholas II during the procession of the “Immortal Regiment” in Crimea?

On December 29, 2016, the day before the centenary of the murder of Grigory Rasputin, a miracle happened to this icon.

It was like this. Events were planned for December 29-30 in honor of the elder, including a visit to his last apartment in St. Petersburg at 64 Gorokhovaya Street. The participants came there in procession of the cross (of course), bringing with them several icons, including Nicholas II , which Natalia Poklonskaya herself gave them. Yes, the same icon from that very “Immortal Regiment”.

They arranged the icons and began to sing “Eternal Memory” to Rasputin, when suddenly, after the performance, the face of Nicholas II (enclosed in glass!) suddenly became myrrh-streaming. This was a big surprise for everyone present, look at their faces in the video below, starting from the end of the third minute, more precisely from the 03.50 mark.

Several droplets of the world appeared on the icon, it was unclear where it came from. Miracle? Everyone is free to give their own answer to this.

Willow blossoming on Rasputin's grave

Immediately after the murder, the corpse of Grigory Rasputin was lowered into the Malaya Nevka River from the Petrovsky Bridge. A few days later he surfaced - the tired and adrenaline-fuelled killers forgot to attach the weight, which was originally prepared to send the old man to the bottom of not only history, but also the river forever. The body was transported to Tsarskoye Selo (now the city of Pushkin), where it was buried in the Alexander Garden. Then, after the fall of the autocracy, they dug it up and burned it, but that’s another story.

So, in this place, which is called the first grave of Grigory Rasputin, every year on December 30, contrary to the laws of biology and common sense, a willow blossoms. We have not yet seen the blossoming process itself, but we personally observed the result, branches of a blossoming willow, on December 30, 2016, in the very apartment where the icon streamed myrrh the day before. The willow from the grave of Grigory Efimovich was brought there by pilgrims.

By the way, they walk around this apartment, where they talk not only about the personality of the healer, the prophet and a simple Siberian peasant, but also about the relationships between the key figures of the era, the royal family and the generally difficult situation in the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.

Boney M soloist sang his last song in St. Petersburg

Remember the cheerful dance hit Rasputin by the disco group Boney M, which settled at the top of the European and American charts in the late 70s? “Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen \\ There was a cat that really was gone?”, and so on? We will return to the song itself, but for now we are interested in the “soloist” (who in fact only opened his mouth to the soundtrack, which was not performed by him at all), and part-time dancer of the group Bobby Farrell, who famously portrayed the main character of the song on stage.

He was unlucky on December 30, 2010 - he died. On the same day as Grigory Rasputin. He died not just anywhere, but in St. Petersburg, where he came to speak at a corporate event of some very large company. And in St. Petersburg, not just anywhere, but in the Ambassador Hotel, just 880 meters from the Yusupov Palace, where 94 years earlier the “holy devil” was sentenced to death. There seemed to be no sign of anything, and then suddenly the famous musician unexpectedly complained of feeling unwell. As it turned out, his heart failed him.

These are the coincidences. Well, how can one not remember that right opposite the “Ambassador” there is a garden called... Yusupovsky.

Biography of Rasputin: real name, early years, ability to surprise

Disputes about the origin, age and name of Rasputin

To this day, debates continue about what is true in Rasputin’s biography and what is just the fruit of speculation and rumors. Historians do not even know the exact date of his birth, and we are not talking about the day and month, but even about the year. Some insist that his birthday is in the summer, or rather July 29, while others are of the opinion that Rasputin was born in January. They also argue about the year: according to various sources, it could be 1864 (or 1865), 1871 or 1872. There is also an opinion that Rasputin himself indicated different data, deliberately adding years to himself, that this helped maintain the image of a “righteous old man.”

The birthplace of Grigory Rasputin is the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province, now the Tyumen region.

According to the documents, the mysterious peasant in the future bore the name Novykh. Rasputin is a nickname that the traveler received, most likely, because of his controversial, dissolute lifestyle. The healer himself asked to write down a double surname in the documents, since he had many namesakes, the Rasputins, at that time.

The early years of the holy traveler

In his youth, Grigory Rasputin traveled a lot, especially often visiting holy places. Many experts agree that the reason for the pilgrimages was the illnesses that constantly tormented him. After his wanderings, Rasputin continued to maintain contact with representatives of large temples and churches not only in Russia, but also abroad - he knew, for example, the abbots in Jerusalem and Greece.

At some point, he proclaimed himself a healer and saint and began to heal others himself. People believed him, although he was not even literate. However, in those days, among peasants, including healers, it was, in principle, a rarity to meet a person who could write, read and count.

Petersburg period

The peasant did not have any family ties with Nicholas II or the Romanov dynasty in general, and even at first was not among his close associates, but his outstanding prophetic and healing gifts helped him become, it is believed, a friend of the emperor. Well, definitely a friend of the empress.

Rasputin moved to St. Petersburg by 1904. The seer himself explained this from the point of view of religion - according to him, the Mother of God herself entrusted him with the mission of saving the son of the penultimate Russian emperor. According to another version, the Tsar, desperate to cure Tsarevich Alexei, himself called Rasputin to St. Petersburg, where the elder came on foot.

Rasputin met the emperor's family in 1905. The seer helped heal the heir from a disease that at that time was impossible to cure - hemophilia. In some mystical way, prayers and, moreover, even Rasputin’s telegrams stopped the bleeding, which instilled confidence that the only direct heir to the Russian throne would be able to survive and rule the empire.

Almost the entire St. Petersburg nobility began to receive treatment from the elder. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was especially disposed towards Rasputin because of her son’s healing.

Grigory Rasputin with the Empress, royal children and governess

They also said that the elder influenced some of the emperor’s political decisions, for example, he convinced him to refuse to participate in the Balkan War or to come to the State Duma, where the monarch, despite his own fears, was greeted with a stormy ovation.

From the correspondence of the empress and the testimony of contemporaries, it follows that the elder, at a minimum, participated in discussions of political issues, but what was his real influence - there is a wide field for historical discussions.

In addition, from the very appearance of the “saint” in the capital, rumors began to appear about his false teachings, and the church accused him of selfish intentions. In 1907, representatives of the clergy publicly announced that the elder was illegally gathering followers, and his entire teaching was anti-church. The elder’s reputation was getting worse; in religious circles there were rumors about witchcraft in his apartment at 64 Gorokhovaya, the rent of which was paid for by the imperial court. This was the reason for Rasputin’s quick departure from the Northern capital, where he, however, returned after some time.

Among Rasputin’s legacy, one can note various prophecies and two large books written in 1907 and 1915, respectively - “The Life of an Experienced Wanderer” and “My Thoughts and Reflections.”

How contemporaries spoke of Rasputin

A year before the pilgrim’s death, an article was published in the Birzhevye Vedomosti newspaper in which the author described the impression that Rasputin made on him. According to the writer, Grigory looked unpleasant - he moved nervously, his eyes were cold, he was dressed in shabby, sloppy clothes.

The descriptions of contemporaries, interestingly, coincide with what Boney M sang about the old man; apparently, the text of the hit was compiled based on these descriptions. There are quite a lot of people living in St. Petersburg whose ancestors met Grigory Rasputin on the streets of the city and then shared their impressions with their children or grandchildren. In those days, meeting a friend of the royal family, as well as representatives of the aristocracy, on the street was not something unusual, and the city in those days was several times smaller in area than it is now. So we can form an idea of ​​the main character of the legend based not only on written impressions from his dignitary contemporaries, but also from popular rumor.

The Boney M song says:

He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire.

Our free translation:

He was big and strong, there was fire in his eyes,
Most people looked at him with horror and fear,
But for Moscow chicks he was an expensive favorite.
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he was also such a teacher,
Which women really liked.

In general, this is approximately the case. Further in the text there are elements of historical untruth - in the part that concerns relations with the royal family (“lover of the Russian queen”, “did not pay attention to the tsar”) and assessment of his influence (“ruled the country”), but the image itself is described as a whole right. Witnesses agree that Rasputin had unusually strong energy, the gift of persuasion, a magnetic gaze, incredible healing abilities and, scientifically speaking, forecasting.

There was almost no furniture in Rasputin's apartment; in everyday life he was an ascetic. The author of the mentioned article in Birzhevye Vedomosti was struck by Rasputin’s attitude towards women: he took food exclusively with his hands, after which he let them lick his fingers, which they did with great pleasure. He could ask them to kiss his boots, while deliberately generously lubricating the shoes with cream so that the women would get dirty.

Nevertheless, women revered Rasputin almost like a saint, and among the fans were wives and high-ranking officials. Even famous aristocrats (for example, Baroness Wrangel or Baroness Kusova) were ready to follow Rasputin anywhere on Earth, unless, of course, ill-wishers slandered them.

And it’s amazing that despite all this, the elder was married! His chosen one was the peasant pilgrim Dubrovina Praskovya Fedorovna, in whose marriage Grigory Rasputin had two daughters and a son.

Was such behavior of Grigory Efimovich at the beginning of the last century in the capital of the Russian Empire something out of the ordinary? In general, no. Historians claim that the jaded nobility also had as much fun as they could, orgies, homosexuality and even pedophilia were not particularly hidden, and in some places they were even flaunted. The figure of Rasputin must be considered in the context of his time, and not judged by modern concepts. And against the background of the traditions and customs that reigned in those distant years, he does not look like an inveterate sinner.

However, what is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the bull, even if he (and perhaps even more so!) is close to the imperial persons.

The imperial family did not seem to notice what was obvious to all of Russia. Many close to the Tsar tried to convince him that Rasputin was simply a rampant deceiver. But each time the holy elder managed to convince Nicholas II that all the rumors were nothing more than deception and a desire to denigrate him in the eyes of the imperial family. Even the most detailed report of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin brought to Nicholas about the adventures of the “saint” had no effect. The emperor, commenting on the adventures of his “friend” in hot places, answered briefly: “He preaches the Gospel there too.” This phrase came into common use and was used as an ironic and sarcastic tool.

Unfortunately, the tsar did not see the main thing: largely because of Rasputin, his authority was evaporating like the morning fog over the Neva.

This is how historian Lev Lurie talks about it in the program “Historical Rhyme” on the Fontanka channel: “This whole story with Rasputin is beginning to worry and cause class hatred among the Romanov family (the rest of the royal family, not Nicholas II and his wife - “Window to Petersburg”) and the aristocracy in general. A simple uneducated man who boasts that “his mother sewed a shirt for him.” "Mama" is the empress. And in general his behavior is simply impossible... All of Russia knew about this. For the soldiers it was a kind of joy: “the queen is with Gregory, and the king is with Yegor” (in the sense of the St. George Cross). All this fits into a Russian fairy tale about a lively servant, a senseless master and his wife. It makes you laugh wildly, and prestige is lost.”

Let us note an important detail here: even in the circles of the elite, according to the historian Edward Radzinsky, the Tsarevich’s illness was not known, which is why the seemingly surprising closeness of the imperial family with the Siberian unwashed peasant was so striking for the aristocracy from the very beginning of their communication. This cognitive dissonance, which is explainable if you know the whole picture, played an important role in the conflict between the ruling house and the ruling circles, and this conflict, in turn, made a huge contribution to the development of the revolutionary events of February-March 1917. We can say that the moment of the meeting of Nicholas II and Grigory Rasputin is the seed from which in just a few years the “tree” of the first revolution grew, which then flowed into the second, October Revolution, and then transformed into the creation of the USSR. It is noteworthy, by the way, that the shots that killed Rasputin in the Yusupov Palace were later called “the first shot of the revolution.”

Murder of Rasputin

Prince Felix Yusupov, State Duma deputy Vladimir Purishkevich, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, Doctor Stanislav Lazovert and Lieutenant Sergei Sukhotin not only did not like the elder, they hated him, considering him the cause of many, if not all, of the Empire’s troubles. And they wanted to get rid of him, because they considered him not a friend of Nicholas II, but an ordinary sectarian and a real threat to the emperor, and therefore to the country.

On December 30, new style (December 16, old style), 1916, Felix Feliksovich Yusupov invited Rasputin to visit, according to assurances, to meet his wife Irina, who allegedly fell ill.

Late evening. The situation is very nervous and tense. The legend prepared for Rasputin, as the participants themselves told in official testimony, is simple.

Felix Yusupov picks up the healer late in the evening from his apartment at 64 Gorokhovaya Street and takes him to his palace on the Moika River embankment, 94. When they arrive, a gramophone is playing somewhere upstairs, which creates the feeling of a party. Felix tells Rasputin that he should wait until the guests leave, and in the meantime invites him to a dark, windowless basement room, where a table is set, including the guest’s favorite Madeira wine and sweet cakes. Both wine and sweets are filled with potassium cyanide, which Dr. Lazovert took care of in advance.

It was assumed that after drinking and eating, Rasputin would immediately give up the ghost, however, according to Yusupov himself, the following happens: the old man refuses the cakes, and Madeira with potassium cyanide (he drank the entire bottle) does not take it. As scientists later find out, this poison is neutralized by alcohol, so it turns out that Rasputin also consumed the antidote at the same time. However, everything that we know now is not known to young Yusupov, who has long ago got it into his head that the old man is the earthly edition of Satan, and then there are such outlandish miracles.

Yusupov leaves the basement for a while, tells the other conspirators about what is happening, takes a revolver and, seizing the moment, fires a shot at Rasputin almost point-blank. He falls, after which the rest of the accomplices enter the room. Convinced of the death of the “holy devil,” they go out to discuss what to do with him next. Meanwhile, Rasputin, as befits “Satan,” comes to life and begins to run away. He runs out into the yard and is chased by Purishkevich, who shoots twice, misses, after which, however, he still puts the old man to the ground with two shots. The body is loaded into a car and lowered into Malaya Nevka at night.

This is what the official version looks like. The unofficial one, proposed by the historian Edward Radzinsky (you can see it), differs from the generally accepted one in details, but very significant ones. We will not retell it in full, it is publicly available, we will only note that, according to Radzinsky, the two fatal shots were fired not by Purishkevich, who did not really know how to shoot, but by an excellent shooter, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, whose fatal role, for obvious reasons, they tried to hide .

However, these are still details that do not change the essence, and it is this: the elite killed a man who, willy-nilly or not, shook the authority of the royal power and turned the ruling circles against the main representative of the royal dynasty, which had fatal consequences for the country.

Rasputin's first grave

Initially, they wanted to bury the elder in his native village, but later they abandoned this idea - the figure of Rasputin was so famous and controversial that they were afraid to transport him across the country: unrest could arise. Therefore, he was buried in Tsarskoye Selo, in the already mentioned Alexander Park, a place that today serves as a mecca for admirers of the cult of the odious Siberian peasant.

Currently, this grave no longer exists: the Minister of Justice, the future chairman of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, at the very beginning of the February Revolution, that is, literally immediately after the overthrow of the autocracy, ordered the body to be dug up and burned. What was the reason for such a decision, which was made in the midst of large-scale historical events, when, to put it mildly, there were enough other concerns? There is no definite answer to this question; we can only assume that Kerensky understood that the burial place of a popular elder among the people could be the object of mass pilgrimage, and where a crowd gathers, expect uncontrollable developments. The February Revolution itself serves as evidence of this.

Rasputin's stunning prophecies

Grigory Rasputin had several strong prophecies that, one might say, came true, albeit with a stretch and assumptions. Namely, if we agree that vague descriptions are appropriate for a given event. The main predictions have been collected by our colleagues here.

However, there was a vision that differed from most others in its specificity. Shortly before his death, Rasputin wrote a letter to Nicholas II in which he expressed confidence that he would not live to see January 1, 1917 (old style). Moreover, he pointed out that if he was killed by his classmates, the peasants, then the House of Romanov would continue to reign and prosper. And if the aristocracy, relatives of the emperor, then, alas, the ruling dynasty will soon cease to be ruling.

At the end there are the following words: “Three times for 25 years each, black robbers, servants of the Antichrist, will destroy the Russian people and the Orthodox faith.” If this proposal was not “invented” after 1991, then we can only applaud the old man for looking so far into the future. Three times 25 is 75 years. Add 1916 and we get 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed. Everyone can treat value judgments like “black robbers” as they wish, that’s why they are evaluations, but it’s difficult to disagree with the words “to exterminate... the Orthodox faith”: “militant atheism” was the official dogma of communist ideology.

Myths about the seer

Rasputin was one of the most controversial personalities close to the tsars and emperors in the entire history of Russia. There are a lot of stories associated with it, some of which were recognized as myths, but are very tenacious in memory. We will present the most popular of them.

1. Rasputin's love affair with the Empress

Many seriously believed that Rasputin had a strong influence on the imperial family solely due to the fact that he had an intimate relationship with the wife of Nicholas II. Of course, he made an impression on her, but Rasputin was able to influence the views of the sovereign himself only by helping to find a solution to some political issues. The queen really blindly trusted Rasputin and at the end of his life she could no longer resolve a single issue without his advice, but there is no convincing evidence that the Siberian elder was more than a friend to her. The persistence of the myth is quite explainable by the peculiarities of human psychology, thanks to which the genre of “scandals, intrigues, investigations” exists - including where there is neither one nor the other, nor the third. So Boney M inserted the line “lover of the Russian queen” in order to decorate their hit. It's more piquant.

2. Passion for black magic

Rumors about Rasputin’s magical rituals circulated actively both during his life and after his death. Many believed that it was witchcraft that helped him convert many people into his passionate fans. Grigory Efimovich really had extraordinary abilities, but he mostly used them to heal the sick through prayer. But the facts of healing have been convincingly described so many times that even if half of them are untrue or embellished, there is still no doubt about the elder’s fantastic healing skills.

3. Holy origin of the healer

Many did not share the position of Rasputin’s opponents, considering him not a charlatan, but a saint. Let's attribute this to excessive religiosity, the need for a cult and for someone to carry out and personify this cult. History knows many examples of the deification of people who were in fact ordinary earthly personalities, albeit outstanding and extremely non-standard ones.

4. Bribery

Grigory Rasputin, of course, took money from rich people, and he took it according to a scheme that would not be considered non-corrupt: for his recommendation to appoint a specific gentleman to a particular position. So, there is an opinion that the elder received about 100,000 rubles for the appointment of Nikolai Dobrovolsky as legal and judicial minister. But since Grigory Efimovich was not an official, he could not take advantage of his official position. So is this corruption then?

But this is one side of the coin. The second highlights the issue from a completely different angle. Let us give the floor to historian Lev Lurie: “Of course, Rasputin was not a bribe-taker. He was on other business. He was an artist. He will collect money and then distribute it. He (needs money to) drink Madeira, some girls - but these are very small expenses.”(“Historical rhyme”, TV channel “Fontanka”). This thesis is confirmed by the fact that the elder’s family did not find untold wealth after his death (rather, his assistants became rich), his children were forced to earn their bread on their own, and the fate of all of them was not very good.

Places of Rasputin in St. Petersburg

Or, more precisely, where Rasputin lived and died.

Rasputin's first separate home in the then capital of the empire was house number 11 on Karavannaya Street (this was the apartment of Ivan Vostorgov). Rasputin lived in the tenth apartment of house No. 3 (it belonged to Major General Veretennikov) on English Avenue for only a year - from 1913 to 1914. The apartment had four sparsely furnished rooms. This was the elder’s first separate home, where guests often came. Before that, he lived in cells at monasteries, and then in apartments rented by fans.

It is known that for a short time Grigory Efimovich lived on Nikolaevskaya Street in the 70th house with the publisher Sazonov, and also in the 37th house on Liteiny Prospekt in the room of the engineer Lokhtin.

Yusupov Palace, located at Moika River embankment, house 94. It is significant in the fate of the Siberian elder; he was killed in it, as described above. You can book an excursion to the Yusupov Palace here:

The most famous place associated with Rasputin is a five-room apartment at 64 Gorokhovaya Street, where he lived for the last two years of his life. It was she who became at the same time a home, an office, and a reception room, where women enchanted by the pilgrim and men in difficult situations, aristocrats and simple peasants, the sick and suffering came...

You can find out how everything really happened on the one we have already mentioned.

Ivan Semenov

His magnetism, his supernatural power of suggestion changed the course of history and was believed to be the cause of many of the misfortunes that befell the Russian Empire.
The murder, which took place in December 1916 at the Yusupov Palace, was inevitable, but overdue, from the point of view of many left, right, liberal and conservative groups. Although Grigory Efimovich himself had been warned for a long time and repeatedly about the inevitable tragic end. 1905

How many years did Rasputin live?

47 years (1869–1916)

What can unite Grigory Rasputin, Emperor Nicholas II and Joseph Stalin? The fates of these great personalities are contradictory and full of secrets; the lives of historical characters have not yet been fully studied. But the deaths of these three people are even more mysterious, and the secrets that rest in the graves of their owners excite the minds of many modern people. The author, Edward Radzinsky, in his audiobook tries to study the lives and deaths of Rasputin, Nicholas II and Stalin in order to answer some questions. The writer lifts the veil of secrecy, and who knows what will be behind it?

Name: Grigory Rasputin

Zodiac sign: Aquarius

Age: 47 years old

Occupation: peasant, friend of Tsar Nicholas II, seer and healer

Marital status: married

Grigory Rasputin: biography

Grigory Rasputin is a well-known and controversial figure in Russian history, debates about which have been going on for a century. His life is filled with a mass of inexplicable events and facts related to his proximity to the emperor’s family and influence on the fate of the Russian Empire. Some historians consider him an immoral charlatan and a swindler, while others are confident that Rasputin was a real seer and healer, which allowed him to gain influence over the royal family.

Grigory Rasputin

Rasputin Grigory Efimovich was born on January 21, 1869 in the family of a simple peasant Efim Yakovlevich and Anna Vasilievna, who lived in the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province. The day after his birth, the boy was baptized in a church with the name Gregory, which means “awake.”

Grisha became the fourth and only surviving child of his parents - his older brothers and sisters died in infancy due to poor health. At the same time, he was also weak from birth, so he could not play enough with his peers, which became the reason for his isolation and craving for solitude. It was in early childhood that Rasputin felt an attachment to God and religion.

Where and how was Rasputin killed?

Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

Grigory Rasputin interesting facts. Grigory Rasputin - interesting facts

Hello friends. Today I will tell you interesting facts from the life of Rasputin Grigory Efimovich, and the no less mysterious story of his death. But let's look at everything in chronological order.

He comes from the village of Pokrovskoye, Tyumen region, but no one knows about the exact date of his birth; they call it 1864 - 1872, and the date is February 9 or 21. Different sources provide different information on this matter. As a child, he was a sickly child and had health problems.

Interesting facts about Rasputin's biography begin after he came of age. Until the age of 18, he was an ordinary peasant and was engaged in agricultural work. And after coming of age, he went on pilgrimage.

In 1890, he acquired a wife of peasant origin; she also led a pilgrimage lifestyle. He was characterized as having a piercing gaze, but sloppily dressed. He began his journey from the Verkhoturye Monastery, and then was in Greece, Jerusalem and directly in his native Russia.

After visiting holy places, Rasputin became famous for his discovered abilities for treatment and prediction. From birth he had the gift of a hypnotist; Grigory Rasputin could charm wounds and turn any object into a talisman.

After their marriage, they had a son and two daughters. It is not known for what merits, but the elder was revered by many society ladies who came to see him in Siberia. Even Empress Alexandra Feodorovna herself supported him and considered him a holy man. While all the people made fun of the stories about Rasputin’s festivities and revelries, the empress considered them the slander of envious people and ill-wishers. Rasputin was completely trusted by the children of the royal family. According to the elder himself, the Mother of God herself called him to St. Petersburg in order to help Tsarevich Alexei, who was sick with hemophilia.

Whatever reputation Rasputin Grigory Efimovich may have, interesting facts speak for themselves. Rasputin's predictions came true. He foreshadowed the death of the royal family, the revolution and the death of a large number of the aristocracy. Even his predictions, which he prophesied after his death, came true, namely, about the illness of Tsarevich Alexei. He also foreshadowed his death, talked about the fate of the throne, and upcoming disasters associated with nuclear power plants.

His predictions included terrible natural changes, earthquakes, the decline of moral values, human cloning and the danger from such experiments. We can talk about one more prediction with a shudder; let’s hope that Rasputin was wrong here - the third world war.

From the memoirs of Rasputin’s only surviving daughter Matryona, it follows that her father abused alcohol and the female sex. But if we consider it from the point of view of an outside observer, then, as the tsar’s confessor, Rasputin haunted many, including the Soviet government in the person of the Bolsheviks. It was all because of the fear that some felt, knowing about his abilities.

Facts about the last day of Rasputin's life: after taking a large dose of poison in food, washing it down with wine, Rasputin remained alive. Apparently the poison was old or something had weakened its effect. Afterwards he was finished off with a shot in the head, and his body was thrown into the river.

However, on this day, a note was found on Grigory Efimovich, where he assumed his death and if it was at the hands of the peasants, then the monarchy would remain in the country. If his killers are aristocrats, then there will be no monarchy, just as there will be no mercy for the royal family.

All his predictions were recorded from his words and are still being studied to this day. When the February Revolution ended, Elizaveta Fedorovna was visited by the abbess of the monasteries, who told about strange things after the death of Rasputin. That night, most of the brothers and sisters at the monastery suffered fits of madness, uttered loud cries and blasphemed.

In times of instability, more and more people are becoming interested in the predictions of psychics and clairvoyants. Perhaps one of the most important prophecies about Russia was compiled by the elder Grigory Rasputin.

The figure of Rasputin in the history of Russia still remains a mystery, and there are still rumors and legends about his influence on the royal family. Rasputin's predictions about Russia were published in the book Pious Reflections in 1912. And if at that time most of his prophecies were perceived as fantasy, now almost all of his words can truly be called prophetic.

Which predictions of Rasputin came true?

It should be noted that many of Grigory Rasputin’s prophecies came true. So, what did the elder talk about during his lifetime and what followed his words?

Execution of the royal family. Rasputin knew that the entire royal family would be killed long before the tragedy. This is what he wrote in his diary: “Every time I hug the Tsar and Mother, and the girls, and the Tsarevich, I shudder with horror, as if I were hugging the dead... And then I pray for these people, because in Rus' they are in greater need than anyone else. And I pray for the Romanov family, because the shadow of a long eclipse falls on them.”

About the revolution of 1917: “Darkness will fall on St. Petersburg. When his name is changed, then the empire will end."

About his own death and about the future of Russia after his death. Rasputin said that if ordinary people, peasants kill him, then Tsar Nicholas need not fear for his fate, and the Romanovs will rule for another hundred years and more. If the nobles kill him, then the future of Russia and the royal family will be terrifying. “The nobles will flee the country, and the king’s relatives will not remain alive in two years, and brothers will rebel against brothers and kill each other,” the elder wrote.

Accidents at nuclear power plants. “Towers will be built all over the world; they will be castles of death. Some of these castles will collapse, and from these wounds will flow rotten blood that will infect the earth and the sky. Because clots of infected blood, like predators, will fall on our heads. Many clots will fall to the ground, and the land where they fall will become deserted for seven generations,” this is what Grigory Rasputin said about the future of Russia.

Natural disasters. The elder also spoke about natural disasters, which we see more and more every year. “At this time, earthquakes will become more frequent, lands and waters will open, and their wounds will swallow people and belongings... The seas will enter the cities, and the lands will become salty. And there will be no water that is not salty. A person will find himself under the salty rain, and will wander through the salty earth, between drought and flood... The rose will bloom in December, and there will be snow in June.”

Cloning. Grigory Rasputin also knew that in the future they would conduct experiments with cloning: “Irresponsible human alchemy will ultimately turn ants into huge monsters that will destroy houses and entire countries, and both fire and water will be powerless against them.”

Rasputin's prediction about the future of Russia

The following predictions are difficult to decipher, since Rasputin used symbols and images in his prophecies. This is probably his prediction about the future of Russia, which has not yet come true or is just beginning to come true: “People are heading towards disaster. The most inept will drive the cart in Russia, and in France, and in Italy, and in other places... Humanity will be crushed by the steps of madmen and scoundrels. Wisdom will be shackled in chains. The ignorant and powerful will dictate laws to the wise and even the humble... Three hungry snakes will crawl along the roads of Europe, leaving behind ashes and smoke. The world expects three “lightnings” that will successively burn the earth between the sacred rivers, the palm garden and lilies. From the west will come a bloodthirsty prince who will enslave man with wealth, and from the east another prince will come who will enslave man with poverty."

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Who killed Rasputin and how?

Who killed Grigory Rasputin and why On December 17, 1916 (old style) Grigory Rasputin fell at the hands of murderers. He was killed as a result of a conspiracy headed not by Felix Yusupov or State Duma deputy Purishkevich, but by British intelligence agent Oswald Rainer.

Video The Murder of Rasputin. The Nightmare Before Christmas 1917

Grigory Rasputin is a peasant from the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province, who gained worldwide fame as the “royal friend”; controversial personality in Russian history; a close friend of the last reigning family of the Romanov dynasty. In certain circles he had a reputation as an elder healer and seer. The wife of Nicholas II trusted him with the treatment of their youngest son, Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia. Rasputin was born on January 9 (21), 1869 in the family of an ordinary coachman. He received his name in honor of St. Gregory of Nyssa.

In his youth he was sick a lot, and then turned to religion. In 1893, he went to travel to holy places. During this period, he visited the Verkhoturye Monastery, Mount Athos, Jerusalem; met monks and healers, gained experience. However, there is an opinion that under the guise of religiosity he led a wild life. No one still knows whether he had a real last name or a pseudonym. By 1902, he was already accepted everywhere as a “holy” elder and a Siberian “prophet”. Having gained confidence in Alexandra Feodorovna, he managed to convince her that Alexei could only be treated with prayers. At the same time, he promised to provide “divine” support to Nicholas II.

In the capital city, any door opened before him. Everywhere the “experienced wanderer” was received as a “royal friend.” It was known that Nicholas II could talk for hours with the seer and even entrusted him with some state affairs. In the imperial family he was called nothing less than “God’s man.” Gradually he became disliked by some conspiratorial circles. Accusations of witchcraft, drunkenness, depravity, whipping, etc. fell on him. When this did not help, more effective methods were tried. Because of such accusations, the seer was forced to leave St. Petersburg for a while.

In 1914 there was the first attempt on Rasputin's life. Although it turned out to be unsuccessful, it nevertheless undermined his health. The healer was seriously wounded in the village of Pokrovskoye, after which he was forced to undergo treatment in Tyumen. During the same period, Nicholas II decided on war and announced mobilization. Meanwhile, the conspirators did not sleep. Prince Yusupov, State Councilor V. Purishkevich, Prince Dmitry Pavlovich, and British intelligence agent O. Rainer were involved in the “anti-Rasputin” case. They managed to complete what they had planned at the end of 1916.

Gregory was invited to visit Yusupov with a request to provide witchcraft assistance to his beautiful wife. During the reception, he was treated to poisoned food and drinks. But this could not kill Rasputin, then the conspirators shot him and threw his body into the icy waters of the Neva. After 2.5 months, Nicholas II was overthrown by the new Provisional Government, so the case of the death of the “tsar’s friend” remained uninvestigated.

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 Vasilievna 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 are 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 his 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. Wanderers were often 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 only a 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 is a good thing, for which “forty sins will 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 modest 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 had 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 the murdered man to 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 been no longer a fundamental teaching that denies everything unusual and supernatural that lives side by side with us.

The article was written by Vladimir Chernov

Healer, healer, Siberian prophet, a person close to Her Imperial Majesty, the personality of Grigory Rasputin, in the history of Russia, one of the most mysterious! All known facts about him are not documented, but are based on the words of people who lived in those days. This information was passed on from one person to another and was distorted accordingly.

Rasputin Grigory Efimovich, was born on July 29, 1871 (according to other sources, January 9, 1869) in the village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province. The place of his birth was previously almost inaccessible to many of his fans, because of this, information about Rasputin in his native places is inaccurate and fragmentary, and their author was mainly Grigory. They do not rule out the possibility that he had monastic rank, but there is still a high probability that he simply had excellent acting skills and brilliantly played his holiness and exceptionally close Divine connection.

Rasputin with children in Pokrovskoye. On the left is daughter Varvara, on the right is son Dmitry. Daughter Maria in her arms.

Upon reaching the age of eighteen, Gregory went as a pilgrim to the Verkhoturye Monastery, but did not become a monk. A year later, he returned to his native village and there he married Dubrovina Praskovya Fedorovna, who bore him three children: Dmitry in 1897, Maria in 1898, and Varvara in 1900.

Maria Rasputina in exile

Varvara Rasputina (probably)

Marriage did not interfere with the continuation of pilgrimage activities. Rasputin continues to visit holy places, visiting the Greek monastery of Athos and Jerusalem. He made all these journeys on foot.

As a result of visits to such shrines, Gregory felt his divine chosenness and announced the holiness bestowed upon him, and also told everyone about his exceptional healing gift. News about the Siberian healer spreads throughout the Russian Empire, and now people make pilgrimages to Rasputin. People come to him from the farthest corners of Russia. It is also worth mentioning that the famous healer had no education, was illiterate, and did not understand medicine at all. But thanks to his acting abilities, he could pretend to be a great healer: he calmed the desperate, provided assistance with advice, prayers, and had the gift of persuasion.

One day, when Gregory was plowing a field, he had a vision of the Mother of God. She told him about the illness of Tsarevich Alexei, he was the only son of Nicholas II (he suffered from hemophilia, which was inherited from his mother), and gave him instructions to go to St. Petersburg and help save the heir to the throne.

In 1905, Grigory finds himself in St. Petersburg at the most convenient moment. At that time, the church really needed “prophets” - people who inspired trust in people. This role suited Rasputin perfectly; he had typical peasant appearance, simple speech, and a tough temper. But his opponents spread rumors that this false prophet was using religion only for profit, to satisfy his base needs and gain power.

In 1907, Rasputin received an invitation from the imperial family, which was due to the aggravation of the prince’s illness. All members of the royal family carefully concealed the fact that the crown prince had hemophelia, in order to avoid public unrest. Because of this, for some time they did not want to allow Rasputin to see the heir, but during a severe exacerbation of the illness, the tsar gave his permission.

During Rasputin's subsequent life in St. Petersburg, he was closely connected with concerns about the prince. Having become a frequent guest of the imperial family, Rasputin acquired many acquaintances in high St. Petersburg society, and all representatives of the capital’s elite really wanted to get acquainted with the Siberian healer, who was nicknamed “Grishka Rasputin” behind his back.

In 1910, both of Rasputin’s daughters came to the capital and, under the patronage, entered the gymnasium.

St. Petersburg, Gorokhovaya street, the house in which Rasputin lived.

The emperor did not approve of Gregory's frequent visits to the palace. At that time, gossip spread throughout the capital about Rasputin’s indecent lifestyle. Rumors circulated about how Gregory, with his great influence over the Empress, took bribes (in money and in kind) to promote certain projects or help advance his career. His riotous drinking sessions and real pogroms horrified the residents of the capital. There was also talk about Rasputin's intimate relationship with Alexandra Fedorovna, which greatly undermined the authority of the imperial family, and especially Nicholas II.

Soon, a conspiracy against the Siberian healer matured in the imperial entourage. Felix Yusupov (husband of the Tsar's niece), Vladimir Purishkevich (State Duma deputy) and Grand Duke Dmitry (cousin of Nicholas II). On December 30, 1916, Rasputin received an invitation to the Yusupov Palace, ostensibly to meet with the imperial niece, who was one of the most beautiful women in the capital. The sweets and drinks that Gregory treated himself to contained cyanide, but for some reason the poison had no effect at all. Losing patience, the trio of conspirators decided to use another surefire method. Yusupov fired a shot at Rasputin, but he was lucky again. Running out of the palace, he met the other two members of the conspiracy, who, in turn, shot him at point-blank range. Rasputin even after that tried to get up and run away from his pursuers. But they tied the “Siberian elder” tightly, put him in a bag of stones, took him out in a car and threw him off the bridge into the Neva wormwood. new healing abilities and the gift of foresight!!! It is not for today’s “historians” to judge in a negative way the extraordinary personality of the mighty Siberian peasant, who did everything to maintain legitimate power in the country and prevent the unrest (color revolution) caused by the West!!! Even the fact that his enemies were indoctrinated by English politicians with the help of British intelligence services, its very existence confirms the sincere patriotism of the hero of that time!!! The complete lack of will and political weakness of the tsar played a cruel joke on Rasputin, and then on the tsar himself, his dynasty and, ultimately, on Russia!!!