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To: SeekAndFind

The guy got around didn’t he?


2 posted on 03/24/2026 9:56:17 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Rasputin was widely believed to possess two “strange powers”: an uncanny ability to heal, especially the Tsarevich Alexei’s hemophilia, and an intense, almost hypnotic charisma that people described as supernatural.

These claims come from contemporaries who saw him as a mystic with extraordinary healing talents and prophetic insight.

There was also this rumor that he could not be poisoned. Rasputin almost certainly did not have the ability to ingest poison without dying. The famous story that he survived massive doses of cyanide is considered a myth by modern historians.


4 posted on 03/24/2026 10:03:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I like old Rasputin. He bedded down every hot chick in the palace, and when they tried to rub him out, accounts claim he was poisoned, shot multiple times, and drowned. He dies hard... I respect that.


10 posted on 03/24/2026 10:47:11 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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