Grigori Rasputin Assassinated
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Written by Islamstory
5th of Rabi'ul-Awwal 1335 AH/ December 30th, 1916 AD: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was assassinated. He was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son the Tsarevich Alexei. It has been argued that Rasputin helped to discredit the tsarist government, leading to the fall of the Romanov dynasty, in 1917. Contemporary opinions saw Rasputin variously as a saintly mystic, visionary, healer and prophet or, on the contrary, as a debauched religious charlatan. There has been much uncertainty over Rasputin's life and influence as accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay and legend.
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