Czar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra called upon Rasputin to heal their son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia, a disorder where blood is unable to properly clot. Rasputin was supposedly able to ...

Grigori Rasputin was a mystic who was originally only a peasant, so how did he become entangled with the Emperor of Russia, ...

The empress, Alexandra, was particularly distraught. In her desperation for help from any quarter, she fell victim to the wiles of the Russian mystic and faith healer Rasputin. This pseudo-cleric ...