RASPUTIN. Healer and prophet. A friend of the Tsar family.

       Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin (New) (9 / 21 Jan, 1869 - 16/29 December 1916). Discover the imperial couple with Rasputin comes exactly two weeks after the signing of the manifesto on 17 October - in a difficult and vague to Nicholas and his wife time. 1 Nov., 1905 Emperor first mentions it in his diary: "They drank tea with the police and the camp. Met the man of God - Gregory of Tobolsk Province. It was Grand Duchess Anastasia and Milica, wife of Peter, and Nikolai Nikolaevich, introduced Siberian "elder" in the imperial family. Such meetings and spiritual conversations with people, highlighted by the grace of God, have become by the time ordinary at the court. However, unlike many, many Rasputin was able to take a very special, with no more than a comparable place in the first family of Russia. 
          Nicholas and Alexandra, who lived in constant fear for his son, Alexei small, the disease with little or no hope left, were ready to believe and to open their hearts to anyone who could save him from danger every minute. This man and became Rasputin undoubtedly possessed supernatural abilities, the nature of which in our day science are not found. 
          The phenomenon of Rasputin, the Siberian plain man violent indomitable mores and inexhaustible vitality, unaware of his career has made me dizzy, has remained largely mysterious until now. In Verkhotursk monastery to pass his spiritual transformation. He threw the old life, stop drinking, smoking, eating meat, learned to read in Church Slavonic. Then it started walking on the holy places of Russia, he traveled to dozens of monasteries, a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which was then a short "Reflections." Due to the natural nous as well as numerous meetings and conversations with representatives of the clergy, and with various sectarians, and the stranger Simpleton, Rasputin, according to numerous testimonies, it is easily turned to the Holy Scriptures, knew him well and was able to interpret. Often seen it, and traveling in a state of ecstasy prayer.
           In addition to the powerful energy, Rasputin have a definite gift for hypnotic and truly unique talent healer, that the substance and determined it vyzvyshenie. Being uneducated man, he had considerable knowledge of traditional medicine and surely enjoyed the healing properties of Siberian, Tibetan and Chinese herbs. But what he did, without resorting to any improvised means, bordered with a miracle. "Ill someone's head and fever - remember, for example, his personal secretary A. Simanovich - Rasputin became sick at the back, took his head in his hands, nasheptyval something that is incomprehensible to anyone, and pushed the patient with the word" Go " . The patient felt recovered. rasputinskogo Effects of insinuation, I experienced myself, and I must confess that it was overwhelming. " Just one session of Rasputin rose to his feet and his son, whose disease was considered incurable then.

          According to some sources, since late 1907, the intervention of Rasputin, to create "a holy prayer" for the Tsarevich Alexei, a few times that saved lives. It may be that among his many talents was the ability zagovarivat blood in cases where the best medicine was powerless at that time. 
          Most vividly demonstrated the gift of Rasputin in autumn 1912, when the Tsarevich almost died as a result of injury received during his stay in the imperial family was asleep. Started internal bleeding resulting in a huge hematoma, physicians have recognized the boy's condition is extremely serious. Rasputin was not nearby, but a telegram came from the saved position - a mysterious force acting at a distance.

          Quoting the case in the book "With the king and no king, palace commandant VN Voeykov wrote:" If you become the point of view of the empress-mother, in god-fearing Rasputin saw an old man, his prayers helped a sick son, much must be understood and forgiven Assistance provided by the heir, so strengthened the position of Rasputin at the court that he no longer was a need to support the Grand Duchess and spiritual persons. " 
           The credibility of Nicholas and Alexandra Feodorovna to Rasputin further increased when two years later he was literally rescued from a seemingly imminent death of girlfriend near the Empress, maid of honor Vyrubovu caught 2 Jan, 1915 in the worst rail disaster - it was fragmented legs, concussion and cracked skull.

         This story has made a strong impression on the witnesses and received wide publicity. "When a poor woman dragged - to play in 1917, the story of Elizabeth Duke Naryshkin Andronnikov - it all the time shouting:" Father, father, help (it is about Rasputin). She believed that he would help her so it appeared he pomchalsya in Tsarskoe Selo. When he came to Tsarskoe, it is about patient Vyrubovoy was a former prince, gosudarynya, the entire royal family, a daughter, and several doctors. Vyrubova was absolutely hopeless. 
         When Rasputin arrived, he bowed, went up to her and started to make some gestures, and say: "Annushka, you hear it?" And she, who did not meet, suddenly opened his eyes, "says that Rasputin, then going into the next room, fell into a long swoon from committing them willed effort. Vyrubova became fairly quickly mend. 
          Rasputin was probably the only person close to the family of Nicholas, who really can support and reassure him infinitely verivshuyu empress, who lived for years on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Alexandra Feodorovna herself acknowledged that the talks with "our friend" as she called it, give her strength and mental sabbath. "I always remember that our friend said. How often we do not pay enough attention to his words ...", - wrote it. All of this undoubtedly contributed to the huge impact of "the man of God", which could not undermine any rumors about his scandalous adventures with women and debauchery in restaurants or to the Minister, nor even the united clamor all the house of Romanov, voznenavidevshih Rasputin. 
          True, sustainable view on the omnipotence of the black man for the dynasty, semi-notes which would be determined if all the policies in the empire before its collapse last few years, far from the truth. State power is in the hands of Nicholas and Alexandra Feodorovna not, it is relevant to Rasputin, and his boards have been somewhat different. 
          While he listened to the judgments of his wife, has always remained closest to the man, and although it is certainly appreciated and honored in his own "old man" who has repeatedly been obliged to the life of his son, the emperor was far from the mechanical performance of its wishes in public affairs. Gregory had, of course, a certain influence on him, but he could not read nor in comparison with the reverential attitude of Alexandra Feodorovna the words "our friend".

           This difference in the feelings of the Emperor and his wife just said French Ambassador Maurice Paleolog who believes that Nicholas quite reluctant to Rasputin. Surrounded by the sovereign to be a lot of people openly hostile "old man", and the death of the last in December 1916, he moved much calmer than the Empress. 
          But regardless of these subtleties, the mere presence of Siberian man widely known scandalous reputation in the imperial family gave room gossip, and often vicious slander. It was a dirty slander on the imperial family, but that it was a success and in the aristocratic salons of St. Petersburg, and in the provincial intellectuals, spoke about how lost its charm of an ancient tradition of the Russian monarchy, and as low in the eyes of all segments of the population has fallen prestige of the ruling dynasty. Even among the peasantry, even in the army, always fidelity to the king's throne, disappeared respect for autocratic power, which were attacking from all sides.