Die hard Rasputin

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As the song goes”Rasputin lover of the Russian Queen” . It was never proven he was the lover of Alexandra,Czarina and wife of  Nicholas II Czar of Russia.

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However what was proven is that Rasputin was very hard to kill,nearly impossible evn.

Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30, 1916, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a self-proclaimed holy man, was murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with Rasputin, her children and a governess.

Rasputin, a Siberian-born muzhik, or peasant, who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future, won the favor of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra through his ability to stop the bleeding of their hemophiliac son, Alexei, in 1908.

From then on, though he was widely criticized for his lechery and drunkenness, Rasputin exerted a powerful influence on the ruling family…

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