Secret is surrounded by everything related to the life of Grigory Rasputin. This was facilitated by his friendship with the royal family, the circumstances of death, the political situation and the efforts of the old man himself, who was trying, apparently, to surround his image with a mystical halo.
Grigory Rasputin became one of the symbols with the help of which the forces hostile to the Russian Empire, trying to weaken it, proved the failure and “rottenness” of the Romanov monarchy. In the difficult years for the country, the German General Staff, the Social Democrats, and almost all revolutionary political parties unsuccessfully tried to introduce the idea that the illiterate old man practically leads the country, instructs the tsar’s horns, and sets up orgies, creating sect of whips.
As far as this corresponded to reality, it is impossible to reliably determine over the past years, and contemporaries of those events had very conflicting opinions on this subject, therefore, when assessing the personality of an old man, one should, most likely, rely only on dry facts, ignoring works of art, mostly biased .
Who was Grigory Rasputin? His biography begins in 1869, but there is no complete clarity in this matter either, it is possible that age was added to better match the image, or, as they say now, the image of the old man. Being 21 years old, he married, became the father of two daughters and a son. Gregory had a religious worldview in his youth, so he assumed some sophisticated hypocrisy attributed to him in many books and films. It is difficult, however, in the mind and determination Rasputin cannot be denied. A native of a remote village from the Tobolsk province, he apparently set himself the goal of getting to know the imperial family as much as he did, and he achieved his goal.
The fact that Grigory Rasputin could stop the blood of Tsarevich Alexei, a patient with a serious illness - hemophilia, can be considered objective and confirmed by many evidence. Some of his predictions are indisputable, and there were about a hundred of them in all, they dealt with political events and the circumstances of deaths, including his own. These prophecies have come true.
There is no doubt that the influence enjoyed by Grigory Rasputin at court caused concern and concern of many political figures both in the Russian Empire and abroad, although, perhaps, in fact it was not as widespread as it was viewed from the outside. So, many of his illiterate notes, drawn at random, were not taken into account by dignitaries. However, the Emperor and the Empress consulted with the elder when they wanted to know an opinion about a particular person.
Apparently, it was the desire to demonstrate their own importance and significance that caused the death of this, of course, outstanding person. There is a fairly plausible version of involvement in the assassination of British intelligence, concerned about the possibility of concluding peace between Germany and Russia. Grigory Rasputin has repeatedly spoken out in favor of such a decision, feeling that war is depleting the country's economy. This hypothesis is supported by numerous contradictions in the testimonies of Prince Yusupov and Purishkevich with the data obtained at the autopsy of the body.