Throughout history there have been figures who have influenced a certain group of people to make a change, in today’s presentation I will be talking about one figure, who, one way or another, influenced the 1917 Russian revolution; Grigori Rasputin.
So, who exactly was Rasputin? Rasputin was born in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, on the 22nd of January 1869. Grigori Rasputin has always been described as a monk, later given the name “The Mad Monk”, though he had no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. He later gained a following from some churches and social leaders during his travels to St. Petersburg in 1904, where he then met the Tsar in 1905. The Tsar had written about his encounter with Rasputin in his diary, he described it as he
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who has remained a German on the Russian throne and alien to the country and its people.” After the speech, Felix Yusupov, a Russian prince and aristocrat, contacted Vladimir, where he agreed to assist in the murder of Rasputin.
Rasputin’s death has turned into something of a legend, some fabricated or simply incorrectly remembered by his murderers, because of this it has become very difficult to find out the actual course of events. Rasputin’s death has been recorded as either 17 December or 29 December, 1916. The most commonly accepted story is told by one of the main murderers Prince Felix Yusupov. The story involves Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, and the politician Vladimir Purishkevich, luring Rasputin into Yusupov’s Palace, where he was then served cakes and red wine lined with large amounts of cyanide. Though Rasputin’s daughter, Maria, accounts that Rasputin never ate the cakes or wine due to hyperacidity. Some suggest Rasputin developed an immunity to poison due to