Question by AWWZZEEEEEaussie AZZZYYYY: How is Rasputin indirctly responsible for the downfall of the Russian dynasty?
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Answer by yn1000
hmmm wasn’t he an advisor to the royal family… who they tried to kill but that proved impossible or really hard to do… the royal family thought he had mystic powers I think… and god I clearly don’t know enough about russian history… check online?
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Carrie says
Nicholas II had an excellent skill of making everybody in Russia hate him. The Tsar's attempts to diminish the power of the Duma (that's the Russian parliament created in 1905) already angered a great deal of Russia's citizens. In addition to political unrest, Nicholas II also had the peasants (who were angry about the insufficient land they received during the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861 and the extra tax they had to pay), the workers (who were angry about the poor working conditions and lack of factory laws), and the non-russian minorities (who were angry about the "Russification" policies and lack of autonomy) against him. This might have been okay if he hadn't pissed off the Boyars (that's the Russian nobility) with the massive government decadence. That decadence is best represented by Rasputin. The Tsar's only supporters turned against him due to the silly obsession with the mystic and Rasputin's meddling in government affairs. By the beginning of WWI, the Romanovs were universally hated across Russia….