Rasputin: Secret Files Released: The True Story of the Mad Monk and the Romanoffs

Rasputin: Secret Files Released. The True Story of the Mad Monk and the Romanoffs. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian Orthodox Christian and mystic. Some people called Rasputin the "Mad Monk", while others considered him a "strannik" (or religious pilgrim) and even a starets ("elder", a title usually reserved for monk-confessors), believing him to be a psychic and faith healer. Contemporary opinions saw Rasputin variously as a saintly mystic, visionary, healer and prophet or, on the contrary, as a debauched religious charlatan. Rasputin was employed by Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra as a healer for their only son, Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia, and became an influential figure in the later years of the Tsar's reign. It has been argued that Rasputin helped to discredit the tsarist government, leading to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. This is the true story of the Mad Monk with references from the Russian secret files.