Rasputin and the Royal Family

Rasputin was a very powerful monk. Tsarita Alexandra of Russia asked Rasputin to try to care for her son who suffered from haemophila. He claimed he used the power of prayer to cure sickness. It did seem to cure Alexei (the Tsarita's son) so the Royal Family believed everything that Rasputin did was holy. He began to work with Alexei in 1905. Rasputin was said to have raped Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova the Royal Governess, but he was not punished because the Tsarita beleived if he did it, it was holy. It is also claimed that he seduced the Tsarita and her daughters. When Tsar Nicholas II went away Rasoutin gained more power over the Tsarita and he became her personnel confidant and advisor. He convinced her to sill the Cabinet with his hand-picked people.