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Rasputin

Rasputin was one of the most famous Russians ever. He was said to be a holy healer because he healed internal bleeding. It has been argued that Rasputin helped to discredit the tsarist government, leading to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. Contemporary opinions saw Rasputin variously as a saintly mystic, visionary, healer and prophet or, on the contrary, as a debauched religious charlatan. There has been much uncertainty over Rasputin's life and influence as accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay and legend. In his homeland he is revered as a righteous man by many people and clerics, among them Elder Nikolay Guryanov. The name Rasputin is not an uncommon surname in Russia, and it is not considered in any way untoward. It does not mean "licentious" in Russian, as has often been claimed. There is, however, a very similar Russian adjective, rasputny (распу́тный), which does mean "licentious"—as well as the corresponding noun, распу́тник "rasputnik". Some even suggest that his name meant "dissolute".[33] There are at least two options for the root-word: one of them is "put", which means "way", "road", and other close nouns are rasputye, a place where the roads diverge or converge, and rasputitsa (распу́тица), "muddy road season". Likewise some historians[who?] argue that the name Rasputin may be a place name, since it does roughly signify ". several members of the aristocracy attempted to murder the holy man. On the night of December 16-17, 1916, they tried to kill Rasputin. The plan was simple. Yet on that fateful night, the conspirators found that Rasputin would be very difficult to kill. He was poised with the same amount it took to kill two cows. Scientist think he survived because he injected a small amount of poison in himself each day to make himself immune. he was shot twice but it is argued he was shot a 3rd time by a riffle. the first two shots where delivered by a .44 revolver. what killed him was he was being wrapped in a rug then being thrown in a river where he escaped but froze to death and washed up on shore the next morning.