Rasputin

It has been eighty years since the fatal day of 1916, when Rasputin's body was found bobbing in the icy cold river of St Petersburg. To this day his name nonetheless lives on in books, movies and even rock songs. The life of Rasputin is one that can be told by many historians in many different languages, and still have the same electrifying effect, that it did on the day St Petersburg woke up to hear that a healer had walked into town. However, his name has been looked upon negatively, as majority of historians conclude that it is he who was the cause for the demise of the Romanov family, hence being one of the various causes to the 1917 Russian revolution1. These accusations that have been lodged on Rasputin is to an enormous amount, the imperfection of the sources that have been distributed after the 1917 revolution, sources that have been interpreted incorrectly, altered to suit the historians agenda and causing bias. Hence, with these and with the help of biased memoirs by Duke an...