Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a madman who befriended the last Emperor of Russia, and gained influence in Imperial Russia.
Rasputin was born to a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in the Tyumensky Uyezd of Tobolsk Governorate (now Yarkovsky District of Tyumen Oblast). He had a religious conversion experience after taking a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897. He has been described as a "strannik" wanderer.
He traveled to Saint Petersburg in 1903 or the winter of 1904–1905, where he captivated some church and social leaders. He became a society figure and met Emperor Nicholas and Empress Alexandra in November 1905.
Historians say that Rasputin's scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the tsarist government and thus helped precipitate the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty a few weeks after he was assassinated. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on hearsay and rumor.
Without a flicker of emotion, Russian aristocrat, Prince Felix Yussupov, declared on the witness stand that he killed Russia’s Rasputin. Yussupov described in detail how he helped poison, shoot, beat, and drown him, as part of a larger conspiracy to murder the mystical “holy man,” who had gained powerful influence over the Imperial family. https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/10/the-murder-of-rasputin/
Vladimir Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Saint Petersburg, Russia), His grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was the cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.Putin's birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers, Viktor and Albert, born in the mid-1930s. Albert died in infancy and Viktor died of diphtheria during the Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany's forces in World War II. He has not been the same since.
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Putin’s war could end like the invasion of Stalingrad, when the Germans had to retreat from that city. They can’t resupply the forces that are in place, and either they’re forced to withdraw from positions they occupy, or their military aggression just crumbles.
That defeat would send a message to other authoritarian leaders, Fukuyama argued.