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The assassination of Rasputin ...
On the night of December 16 to 17, 1916, Grigory Eefimowitsch Rasputin was murdered in Petrograd (formerly Saint Petersburg).
Rasputin was born on January 10, 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye, 80 km east of the city of Tyumen (Western Siberia) as a farmer's son. At the age of 17 he began a fifteen year pilgrimage to learn about religion. From 1901 he stayed in his home village for a while, but set out for St. Petersburg in 1903.
Rasputin became famous because he was called to the court of the tsars in 1905 in the hope of being able to stop the bleeding of the tsar's son Aleksej, who suffered from hemophilia, through prayers. Contemporary witnesses, including doctors and critics, confirmed that Rasputin had an inexplicable influence on the tsar's son and his life-threatening bleeding.
Rasputin's ability led Tsarina Alexandra Fjpdorovna, who was already strongly inclined to mysticism, to believe that Rasputin was a saint who had been sent to her by God to protect her son. For the Tsarina, the arrival of Rasputin was God's answer to her passionate prayers.
At the same time, Rasputin led a dissolute life that filled many police files and the columns of the press, as far as the censors did not suppress it. Incidentally, "Rasputin" means something like "libertine" ...
In the population more and more sexually tinged rumors about Rasputin, the tsarina and her - authoritative - lady-in-waiting and confidante Anna Vyrubova were making the rounds, as it was known that especially the ladies of the "better circles" were craving for Rasputin's company and Vyrubova ...
... was downright addicted to the “priest” (as she admits in her own memoir that I have). Anna Vyrubova had asked Rasputin for advice before her marriage (arranged by the tsarina) and he had strongly advised against it. The marriage lasted only a few months after the husband's husband repeatedly brutally beaten Anna Vyrubova. Since then, the lady-in-waiting considered Rasputin a saint with supernatural abilities.
Even at this time, Rasputin, who had the Tsarina's ear, had considerable influence on internal processes in the state apparatus.
In order to end the problems with Rasputin, several murder attempts were planned in 1913. After several unsuccessful murder attempts, their client, Interior Minister Chwostov ...
... resign in the same year.
On June 28, 1914, one day after the assassination attempt in Sarajevo, Rasputin was stabbed by a woman in his hometown and seriously injured. Rasputin stayed in Tobolsk hospital from July 3 to August 18, while the First World War started in Europe
When the tsar began to take care of the military and the war situation from 1915 while the tsarina ran government affairs, there was ultimately no significant appointment or decision in the state apparatus or in the military that "the friend", as Tsarina Aleksandra called him, had not previously been made had approved.
Only one person openly opposed the “holy man”: the tsar's uncle, Grand Duke Nikolaj Nikolajewitsch, initially supreme commander of the Russian armed forces. When Rasputin telegraphed his visit to the headquarters, the Grand Duke telegraphed back: "Come on - and I'll hang you!"
Rasputin was murdered on the night of December 16 on the 16th. The main culprits were
Prince Felix Felixowitsch Jusupow,
... in whose palace the murder also took place (a person with "tsarist blood", which is why the police had no access to the palace), the member of parliament Vladimir Purishkevich ...
... and the tsar's nephew, Grand Duke Dimitri Pawlowitsch.
Other - even if only marginally - involved were the Guard Captain A. S. Suchotin and the doctor Dr. S. S. Lasowert...:
It is certain that Rasputin had to be killed three times:
At first he was poisoned with port wine and pastries, but survived the actually lethal dose. When he tried to escape from Yusupov's palace, Purishkevich shot him down in the courtyard with several pistol shots.
The murderers threw the man believed dead through a hole in the ice into the Neva. When the body was found, it was found that Rasputin had neither poisoned nor shot but drowned ...
Here are the original police photos ...:
None of the murderers were actually held responsible after the crime!
Yusupov was only exiled by the tsar to his country estate near Kursk, emigrated abroad during the revolution and died in Paris in 1967
Nothing happened to Purishkevich either: the Tsarina and Rasputin were so hated in parliament (Duma) that they simply refused to lift Purishkevich's immunity for prosecution. During the Russian civil war, he founded a party with a völkisch-racist-monarchist orientation, joined the “volunteer army” of the “whites” and died in Novorossisk in 1920 shortly before the city was taken by the “reds”.
Grand Duke Dimitrij Pavlovich was transferred to the Persian front "as a punishment", which ultimately saved his life. So he was far enough "off the beaten track" when the October Revolution broke out in 1917 and the Bolsheviks killed all tangible members of the tsarist family. He was also able to save himself into emigration, died in Davos (Switzerland) in 1942 and was buried on the Lake Constance island of Mainau in 1946.
From a purely political point of view, the murder was completely pointless - it was years too late!
By the end of 1916, the tsarist family was so thoroughly discredited that hardly a hand was lifted to help when the revolution broke out just three months later ...
In the basement of the Yusupov Palace, which still exists today, on the Moika Canal in Saint Petersburg ...
Is the scene with Raspution and the young prince re-enacted with wax figures at the original location in the basement of the building ...:
... while the other murderers in the next room wait (in vain) for the poison to work ...:
Cheers
On the night of December 16 to 17, 1916, Grigory Eefimowitsch Rasputin was murdered in Petrograd (formerly Saint Petersburg).
Rasputin was born on January 10, 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye, 80 km east of the city of Tyumen (Western Siberia) as a farmer's son. At the age of 17 he began a fifteen year pilgrimage to learn about religion. From 1901 he stayed in his home village for a while, but set out for St. Petersburg in 1903.
Rasputin became famous because he was called to the court of the tsars in 1905 in the hope of being able to stop the bleeding of the tsar's son Aleksej, who suffered from hemophilia, through prayers. Contemporary witnesses, including doctors and critics, confirmed that Rasputin had an inexplicable influence on the tsar's son and his life-threatening bleeding.
Rasputin's ability led Tsarina Alexandra Fjpdorovna, who was already strongly inclined to mysticism, to believe that Rasputin was a saint who had been sent to her by God to protect her son. For the Tsarina, the arrival of Rasputin was God's answer to her passionate prayers.
At the same time, Rasputin led a dissolute life that filled many police files and the columns of the press, as far as the censors did not suppress it. Incidentally, "Rasputin" means something like "libertine" ...
In the population more and more sexually tinged rumors about Rasputin, the tsarina and her - authoritative - lady-in-waiting and confidante Anna Vyrubova were making the rounds, as it was known that especially the ladies of the "better circles" were craving for Rasputin's company and Vyrubova ...
... was downright addicted to the “priest” (as she admits in her own memoir that I have). Anna Vyrubova had asked Rasputin for advice before her marriage (arranged by the tsarina) and he had strongly advised against it. The marriage lasted only a few months after the husband's husband repeatedly brutally beaten Anna Vyrubova. Since then, the lady-in-waiting considered Rasputin a saint with supernatural abilities.
Even at this time, Rasputin, who had the Tsarina's ear, had considerable influence on internal processes in the state apparatus.
In order to end the problems with Rasputin, several murder attempts were planned in 1913. After several unsuccessful murder attempts, their client, Interior Minister Chwostov ...
... resign in the same year.
On June 28, 1914, one day after the assassination attempt in Sarajevo, Rasputin was stabbed by a woman in his hometown and seriously injured. Rasputin stayed in Tobolsk hospital from July 3 to August 18, while the First World War started in Europe
When the tsar began to take care of the military and the war situation from 1915 while the tsarina ran government affairs, there was ultimately no significant appointment or decision in the state apparatus or in the military that "the friend", as Tsarina Aleksandra called him, had not previously been made had approved.
Only one person openly opposed the “holy man”: the tsar's uncle, Grand Duke Nikolaj Nikolajewitsch, initially supreme commander of the Russian armed forces. When Rasputin telegraphed his visit to the headquarters, the Grand Duke telegraphed back: "Come on - and I'll hang you!"
Rasputin was murdered on the night of December 16 on the 16th. The main culprits were
Prince Felix Felixowitsch Jusupow,
... in whose palace the murder also took place (a person with "tsarist blood", which is why the police had no access to the palace), the member of parliament Vladimir Purishkevich ...
... and the tsar's nephew, Grand Duke Dimitri Pawlowitsch.
Other - even if only marginally - involved were the Guard Captain A. S. Suchotin and the doctor Dr. S. S. Lasowert...:
It is certain that Rasputin had to be killed three times:
At first he was poisoned with port wine and pastries, but survived the actually lethal dose. When he tried to escape from Yusupov's palace, Purishkevich shot him down in the courtyard with several pistol shots.
The murderers threw the man believed dead through a hole in the ice into the Neva. When the body was found, it was found that Rasputin had neither poisoned nor shot but drowned ...
Here are the original police photos ...:
None of the murderers were actually held responsible after the crime!
Yusupov was only exiled by the tsar to his country estate near Kursk, emigrated abroad during the revolution and died in Paris in 1967
Nothing happened to Purishkevich either: the Tsarina and Rasputin were so hated in parliament (Duma) that they simply refused to lift Purishkevich's immunity for prosecution. During the Russian civil war, he founded a party with a völkisch-racist-monarchist orientation, joined the “volunteer army” of the “whites” and died in Novorossisk in 1920 shortly before the city was taken by the “reds”.
Grand Duke Dimitrij Pavlovich was transferred to the Persian front "as a punishment", which ultimately saved his life. So he was far enough "off the beaten track" when the October Revolution broke out in 1917 and the Bolsheviks killed all tangible members of the tsarist family. He was also able to save himself into emigration, died in Davos (Switzerland) in 1942 and was buried on the Lake Constance island of Mainau in 1946.
From a purely political point of view, the murder was completely pointless - it was years too late!
By the end of 1916, the tsarist family was so thoroughly discredited that hardly a hand was lifted to help when the revolution broke out just three months later ...
In the basement of the Yusupov Palace, which still exists today, on the Moika Canal in Saint Petersburg ...
Is the scene with Raspution and the young prince re-enacted with wax figures at the original location in the basement of the building ...:
... while the other murderers in the next room wait (in vain) for the poison to work ...:
Cheers
