Like I mentioned in the
Video, which you should go and watch, like now. Go on, I'll wait...Good. Now as I mentioned in the video, I'm going to start explaining a bit more about the topic in these blog posts. Think of it as the cherry on top of a mountain of chocolate Ice-cream, because really, if your going to have ice cream, why would you have vanilla. As such, this is just a little more information on the Death of Rasputin, and some of the things I left out either for time, or succinctness. Yeah, succinctness.
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| While I feel like this undermines the authority of my argument, google image search produces wonderful things |
So today, isn't really going to be about the events surroudning the death of Rasputin. Today is more focus on the Tsarina's other man. Who is much more boring than that insane monk Rasputin, but at the same time much more interesting, because of his inablity to give two fucks about anything except wether or not he was still the Big Boss.
While most of the actions concerning Rasputin's assassination are because of his terrible demenor and general resented presence. There is one man who potentionally could have stopped Rasputin from dominating Russian politics, thereby stopping the repression he created on people and as such the need for his assassintion, then stopped Russia from going into full on revolution, hell he could have inenvertinly changed half of the twentieth century if only he grew a pair and stood up to his domieneering wife. Unfortunatley, Tsar Nicholas II was not a man of such bravedo.
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| Pictured: Nicholas' Bravedo |
In the wrong hands ultimate power leads to complete and utter corruption, this is simply the way things work. You give a man the power to command people to do anything he wants, he is going to abuse that power. Luckily for Russia, the Tsar was such an incompetent and non-entitiy, that he never abused his power, he didn't even care about it. His dairy is full of things about the weather and about his family coming to vist. If a legion of angry, butt naked barbarians had arrived on his door step his only reaction would be that the clouds had formed a butterfly shape.
The Tsar's world was soley the Palace and its immediate surroundings. This allowed him to be lead easily. In his first ten years of "existance" he was tutored and dominated by Konstantin Pobedonoststev (
Try and guess the reason I didn't include this guy in the video.) A priest of the Holy Synod, who was by all accounts a zealot who expected that the salvatoin of Russia would be acheived by shutting the nation off from all liveral Western ideas. This continued until Nicholas married, and then he was dominated by her and Rasputin, probably by the withdrawl of sex, although that is just speculation.
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| Until you build me another Palace by the seaside |
In fact, the only time he ever kicked up a fuss was when Rasputin died. You see, everyone knew who killed Rasputin, Yussupoff didn't really cover his tracks. In fact he was in such a state after murdering the monk that he didn't even get the house cleaned, so that when the police came to kick down his door, the house was in the same state as when Rasputin had died. Over the course of the interagation, which, being done by Russians probably involved vodka, hammer, and some nails, Yussupoff gave them the names of the men who had helped him. The problem occured when it came to light that there were royals in the assassination party. Had Nicholas and his wife had there way, the culprits would be serving all eternity in a siberian mine. But the Romanoff clan had come together and decieded that nobody could be punished for the deed.
The Romanoff's had no idea that the Communist Revolution would be just around the corner. What they did know was that Rasputin's end would not be natural. He was certain to be killed by an assassin's knife. Or, as the case was, knife, gun, posion cake, and various things the assassin had around his home. They also knew that the Romanoff clan need to clean house, and was just glad that someone had the balls to do it, unlike a certain un-named Russain Tsar. As such, Yussupoff was free and treated something like a hero, for ridding the world of Rasputin, its not like it had major consequnces, right?....right??.......
Actually, he got off pretty alright