Question by The Sand Witch: Was Rasputin really a spiritual guide?
Why or why not?
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Answer by WWFUUJD
No, he was a con-artist who manipulated Empress Alexandra and the Tzar, Nicholas II for personal gain.
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chana devora says
Yes. Most of the bad things you hear about Rasputin were fabricated by a petty and very anti-Semitic aristocracy because besides being a healer, for which he was well-known long before he came to the Tsar's court, he argued for equal rights for the severely oppressed Jews who were denied most basic rights. In a Jew-hating society (the Romanovs slaughtered entire villages of Jews in regular raids), that was equivalent to treason. In addition, he was against war and violence, so he was called a traitor for that as well. Back then, the greatest weapon the nobility had to discredit someone was gossip, which was also a form of entertainment. Unfortunately, it became accepted as history.
Read "Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History" (available on Amazon). This book is a well-documented account of Rasputin as a healer, equal rights activist and man of God, and why he was so vilified by the aristocracy that their vicious rumors became accepted as history. For nearly a century, Grigory Rasputin, spiritual advisor to Russia's last Tsar and Tsarina, has been unjustly maligned simply because history is written by the politically powerful and not by the common man. A wealth of evidence shows that Rasputin was discredited by a fanatically anti-Semitic Russian society, for advocating equal rights for the severely oppressed Jewish population, as well as for promoting peace in a pro-war era. Testimony by his friends and enemies, from all social strata, provides a picture of a spiritual man who hated bigotry, inequity and violence. The author is the great-great niece of Aron Simanovitch, Rasputin's Jewish secretary.
Lachrymose Lover - K says
He gave himself the title of holy man when he reportedly, healed or helped ease the pain of the Czar's son's hemophilia.
He was a mad man.
Archangel TJ says
yes, i loved him on king of fighters II
ConfuciousMouse says
ConfuciousMouse say:
Madman.
Why? Who knows why. This character was a professional charlatan. Just as there are
many of the same in this age. Who can tell what drives this sort of person?
Judson Boutivar says
He was a professional magician !!