Did Grigori Rasputin Lead To The Downfall Of The Romanov Dynasty
To what extent did Grigori Rasputin’s influence lead to the collapse of the Romanov Dynasty?
Stephanie Byrd
0009910007
History
Granby High School
May 2015
Word Count : 3693 Table of Contents
Abstract………………………………………………………………Page 3
Introduction…………………………………………………………..Page 4
Body/Background…………………………………………………….Page 5
Conclusion……………………………………………………………Page 17
References/Bibliography.……………………………………………...Page 18
Abstract
This paper explores the proposed ideas that Grigori Rasputin was either a large factor or small factor in the popularity during the rule of Tsar Nicholas. The extent to which Rasputin’s influence led to the removal and eventual execution of the Romanov Family in the year of 1917, one year after Grigori Rasputin’s assassination. …show more content…
The boy had received an injury which caused him painful bleeding. When the doctors could not supply a cure, the fearful Tsarina looked for other help; she had already lost her mother, brother and even her younger sister to the same illness that now plagued her son. Rasputin was said to possess the ability to heal through prayer (supported by Vyroubova’s accounts) and was able to calm the parents enough to give the boy some relief, in spite of the doctors' prediction that he would die. The following day the Tsarevich began to show significant signs of …show more content…
Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much."
His temperature dropped and eventually the hematoma disappeared. Tsarina Alexandra, like Rasputin and Vyroubova who were obsessed with religion, believed that he had cured her son through the power of prayer.
Rasputin's debauched kind of lifestyle led Nicholas at times to occasionally distance him from the family. Even after Alexandra was told by the director of the national police that a drunk Rasputin had exposed himself at a popular Moscow restaurant (the Yar restaurant) and even bragged to the crowd that Nicholas had let him top his wife whenever he wanted, although there was contradictory evidence supporting the idea that Rasputin was not even being present in the city. She had blamed it on malicious gossip. She had once wrote; "he is hated because we love him."
Nicholas was not nearly as blind, however, but still felt powerless to do anything about the man who seemingly saved his only son's life. The tutor, Pierre Gilliard* wrote,
"He did not like to send Rasputin away, for if Alexei died, in the eyes of the mother, he would have been the murderer of his own
Stephanie Byrd
0009910007
History
Granby High School
May 2015
Word Count : 3693 Table of Contents
Abstract………………………………………………………………Page 3
Introduction…………………………………………………………..Page 4
Body/Background…………………………………………………….Page 5
Conclusion……………………………………………………………Page 17
References/Bibliography.……………………………………………...Page 18
Abstract
This paper explores the proposed ideas that Grigori Rasputin was either a large factor or small factor in the popularity during the rule of Tsar Nicholas. The extent to which Rasputin’s influence led to the removal and eventual execution of the Romanov Family in the year of 1917, one year after Grigori Rasputin’s assassination. …show more content…
The boy had received an injury which caused him painful bleeding. When the doctors could not supply a cure, the fearful Tsarina looked for other help; she had already lost her mother, brother and even her younger sister to the same illness that now plagued her son. Rasputin was said to possess the ability to heal through prayer (supported by Vyroubova’s accounts) and was able to calm the parents enough to give the boy some relief, in spite of the doctors' prediction that he would die. The following day the Tsarevich began to show significant signs of …show more content…
Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much."
His temperature dropped and eventually the hematoma disappeared. Tsarina Alexandra, like Rasputin and Vyroubova who were obsessed with religion, believed that he had cured her son through the power of prayer.
Rasputin's debauched kind of lifestyle led Nicholas at times to occasionally distance him from the family. Even after Alexandra was told by the director of the national police that a drunk Rasputin had exposed himself at a popular Moscow restaurant (the Yar restaurant) and even bragged to the crowd that Nicholas had let him top his wife whenever he wanted, although there was contradictory evidence supporting the idea that Rasputin was not even being present in the city. She had blamed it on malicious gossip. She had once wrote; "he is hated because we love him."
Nicholas was not nearly as blind, however, but still felt powerless to do anything about the man who seemingly saved his only son's life. The tutor, Pierre Gilliard* wrote,
"He did not like to send Rasputin away, for if Alexei died, in the eyes of the mother, he would have been the murderer of his own