Grigori Efimovich Rasputin: Cause Of The Romanov Dynasty
Did you ever wonder what brought about the Russian Revolution in the year 1917? Grigori Efimovich Rasputin and his actions were one of the main causes of the Revolution that ended the Romanov Dynasty. He was born on January 23, 1872 in Pokrovskoye, Siberia to Anna Egorovna and Efim Akovlevich Rasputin. At the age of eighteen, Rasputin claimed that he was visited by the Holy Virgin of Kazan. He then became convinced that God had chosen him for a special purpose that he would find out later in his life. Soon after he turned nineteen, Rasputin married Praskovia Feodorovna. They had two daughters and two sons and he remained a devoted husband for six years. After six years of marriage, Rasputin sought out spiritual guidance at the monastery of
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Rasputin was murdered in the basement of the St. Petersburg palace on December 29, 1916. “To his enemies he was the incarnation of an insane evil genius” (Moynahan, 12). He was murdered because members of the nobility believed that he was the real power behind the throne and that he was destroying the dynasty. The murderers included some royal family members and some members of the Russian Duma or parliament. For their first attempt to kill Rasputin, the murderers fed Rasputin poisoned food and wine. Rasputin did not immediately succumb to the food poisoning, so the conspirators panicked and shot Rasputin several times in the chest and in the stomach. Rasputin still did not die after the shooting and ran out into the courtyard. The murderers grabbed him and brought him over to the frozen Neva River. They threw him into a pre-cut hole in the ice where he soon drowned. His body was later found and the autopsy revealed that he died of drowning and not from the poisoning or gun shots. After his death, the murderers searched through his home and found a note on his dresser. “The note was a detailed prediction of his murder. He claimed that the royal family would be the ones who would kill him and that every member of the family would die in the next two years” (Moynahan, 15). His prophecy came true, and two years later the royal family had been completely wiped out. Rasputin’s murder was a surreal event that cemented his position in Russian
Rasputin was murdered in the basement of the St. Petersburg palace on December 29, 1916. “To his enemies he was the incarnation of an insane evil genius” (Moynahan, 12). He was murdered because members of the nobility believed that he was the real power behind the throne and that he was destroying the dynasty. The murderers included some royal family members and some members of the Russian Duma or parliament. For their first attempt to kill Rasputin, the murderers fed Rasputin poisoned food and wine. Rasputin did not immediately succumb to the food poisoning, so the conspirators panicked and shot Rasputin several times in the chest and in the stomach. Rasputin still did not die after the shooting and ran out into the courtyard. The murderers grabbed him and brought him over to the frozen Neva River. They threw him into a pre-cut hole in the ice where he soon drowned. His body was later found and the autopsy revealed that he died of drowning and not from the poisoning or gun shots. After his death, the murderers searched through his home and found a note on his dresser. “The note was a detailed prediction of his murder. He claimed that the royal family would be the ones who would kill him and that every member of the family would die in the next two years” (Moynahan, 15). His prophecy came true, and two years later the royal family had been completely wiped out. Rasputin’s murder was a surreal event that cemented his position in Russian