WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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 stop Alexei’s bleeding and he quickly became a close advisor to the family per Alexandra’s request.

Detailed explanation-2: -The tsar appointed Rasputin his lampadnik (lamplighter), charged with keeping the lamps lit before religious icons in the palace, and this gained him regular access to the palace and royal family.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rasputin was born in a peasant family in Serbia who later took pilgrimage to a monastery and became a monk. He created social influence in Petersburg and befriended Russian rulers the Tsars. He became a healer and mentor for Tsar’s son and his wife.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alexei, the heir to the Russian throne, was born with hemophilia (a disorder in which the blood does not clot normally), and Alexandra believed that mystic Rasputin possessed the ability to heal him. Thus, she granted him unprecedented access to the Russian royal family and their affairs.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rasputin, a Siberian-born muzhik, or peasant, who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future, won the favor of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra through his ability to stop the bleeding of their hemophiliac son, Alexei, in 1908.