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This 9 page paper summarizes Brian Moynahan's book, Rasputing: The Saint Who Sinned. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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debauchery and sorcery and yet, as Moynahan offers, there are always two sides to a persons life and to their story. Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned is that other side.
Moynahan does not gloss over the fact that Rasputin was everything people said that he was. He seems to have indulged in nearly every sort of self-gratification that Russia had
to offer. However, the accusations and crimes which over the years have added to the legend of his evil, are what this book brings into question. Grigory Rasputin is
one of the central figures in the last days of the Ramanov family. And, in many instances, was representative of the poor peasant classes of his day and age. However,
he was a peasant with a surprising gift. He had the gift of healing, of prophecy and of other paranormal gifts. Some unsubstantiated rumors state that he was an evil
sorcerer, but in the light of modern analysis, what Moynahan seems to suggest is that he was one of the few truly gifted psychics who managed to win the ear
of the nobility. He used his abilities to lift himself out of crushing poverty and to elevate his status to the point where he was essentially a vizier. Rasputin
became Alexandras advisor because Rasputin has the ability to stop her sons fits. Her son was a hemophiliac and Rasputin was able to alleviate the pain. His idiosyncracies were overlooked
in lieu of the fact that he had a miraculous gift to which he had been given to the nobles of Russia in their time of need. Rasputin was reported
to have enjoyed pagan rituals but was also an attendee of the orthodox Church. And, there was more. According to the records that Moynahan produces, Rasputin had a criminal record.
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