Rasputin

Rasputin was born of good peasant stock, though his parents were not gentlemen they were proud of their successful horse ranch. Rasputin, however, did not take pride in his parents' occupation. He rather took pride in immoral activities. Getting drunk, having inappropriate relations with women, and petty theft were his pastimes. The fellow peasants thought he was a good-for-nothing young man, who would have very little effect on the world.  They were gravely mistaken.

As the villagers grew tired of their daughters becoming corrupt and their village vandalized, they decided to banish Rasputin. For penance he chose to spend his banishment at a monastery. Here he came up with the ideology, to validate his sin, that in order to be close to God one had to perform sin. Deciding that this message was something the world should know, Rasputin started traveling around Europe. During his travels he gained insight into how people thought, acted, and worked. This aided him considerably when he went to St. Petersburg Russia.

News had traveled to St. Petersburg about Rasputin, even before he had arrived. The high society ladies were intensely curious about a man who claimed to be holy, but glorified sinning. The ladies of the upper-class invited Rasputin to their social events to discover who this strange monk really was.

After about a month of Rasputin wining and dinning with the noble people, the tsar and tsarina began to become curious in what this holy man could do. They invited him to the palace and the result of this growing friendship was disastrous, for their family, and the country.

Young Alexander had a blood clotting disease that only a select few people knew about. While Rasputin was visiting, the young boy had an attack and was seriously ill. The strange monk visited the boy's bedside and somehow stopped the bleeding. This made the Tsar's family indebted to Rasputin. Rasputin's bond with the family grew as on multiple occasions he appeared to save the boy's life.

However, with this new association to the royal family it did not curve Rasputin's immoral lifestyle outside of the palace. He went to bars and bragged about the relationships with the tsar's family. He even went as far as insinuate that he and the tsarina were having an affair. The Russian people began to wonder if there was truth in what Rasputin was saying. As a letter was circulated written by the tsarina that declared her affection for Rasputin, the rumors began to be wildly accepted as fact. Although it is doubtful that such a relationship actually occurred, we will never know for sure.

The Russian people began to think of Rasputin not as a man of God, but a devil. They thought that he had growing power over the tsar's decisions - which he did. The tsar's reputation was being tainted and the people were quickly loosing faith in them.

As Rasputin began to become even more vial in public, the people grew hateful and spiteful. Some of the noblemen - one related to the tsar - realized that Rasputin’s reputation was discrediting the royal family. They feared that if Rasputin was allowed to live soon there would be an over throw of the government. The noblemen plotted and succeeded in murdering the mad monk, thinking this would be the remedy to the problem.

However, the damage was already done. A coup was in process - partly due to the tsar's politics and partially because of the new distaste for the royal family. The tsar was forced to resign his position and the family was sent to Siberia.

Soon thereafter, the family was sent down into the basement of their small Siberian house and lined up against the wall. Guns were aimed at them and they were all shot repeatedly.

Rasputin brought shame, distaste, and haltered into the royal family's lives. He turned the people against them through his reputation and his prideful bragging. Although in effort to save the family's regime, Rasputin was murdered, the hatred was already in place. The family who was beloved by the Russian people were turned into the hated enemy. Rasputin's entry into the royal family's lives - who sought his help for life - ended in their death.