... a drunken womanizer. Source 1: A primary source - a photograph of Rasputin, the "Mad Monk."" Rasputin's rose to influence in 1907, through his miraculous ability as a starets or holy man to cure the Tsarevich Alexis' hemophilia. Rasputin was able to succeed where the best surgeons had failed and because of his great help to her son, Alexandra the Tsarist of Russia, kept him close to ... ...

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