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Grigori Rasputin Research Paper

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He is just a good, religious, simple-minded Russian. –Tsar Nicholas II (Russian). Grigori Rasputin was that and more. Rasputin was a lot of different things to a lot of people. To the Tsarina Alexandra, Rasputin was a healer and a dear friend. To some of the nobles, he was a threat and should be killed. Despite having different opinions of Rasputin, everyone agreed that he could work miracles. The Czar’s son, Alexei, is proof of one these miracles. Besides preforming healing miracles, he also had influence in the court of the Tsar (Grigory). Rasputin Rasputin was a peasant born in 1872 in Siberian village known as Pokrovskoe. His name at his birth was Grigori Efimovich Novykh. Grigori’s reputation for his addiction to sex “earned him the surname Rasputin, Russian for ‘debauched one’” (Grigory). …show more content…

The nobles included, “Prince Feliks Yusupov (husband of the tsar’s niece),Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (a member of the Duma), and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich (the tsar’s cousin) (Grigory). Once Rasputin arrived at the Palace, they gave him poisoned wine and tea. When Rasputin did not die from the poison, Yusupov shot him. Rasputin survived again and made his way to the courtyard where Purishkevich shot him in the head. The nobles then rolled him up in a rug and, “threw him through a hole in the ice into the Neva River” (Grigory). After further investigation of his assassination, they discovered claw marks on the bottom of the ice. He was poisoned, shot in the body, and shot in the head, but Rasputin only died after he was drowned. Bernard Marx is the most similar character to Rasputin. Bernard is a character in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Bernard is the most similar because of the way he uses John the Savage to get what he wants. Just like how Rasputin used the Tsarina to get what he wants, Bernard used John to get girls, to keep his job, and to get

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