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...tangle of dark intrigue, egotistical self-seeking, hysterical madness and vainglorious pursuit of power, which wrapped the throne in an impenetrable web and isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal couple from his clutches and threw his body into the Neva from a bridge in Petrograd. Most of this was known before (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926), but it is the first time that...
...noticed some time ago your statement that the Monk Rasputin obtained his influence over the late Tsar and Tsarina by his mysterious healing of the Tsars young son (TIME, Dec. 6). I would like to call your attention to the fact that there are many healers in this country, among the followers of "New Thought,' who can do just as seemingly mysterious things. If you will get a copy of Nautilus published at Holyoke, Mass., you will find many instances of equally mysterious healings. I myself have done as great or even greater healings than that of the Monk Rasputin...
...example, the Tsarina Cath- arine I was a laundress, the daughter of Lithuanian serfs. She washed some foul breeches so charmingly for a trooper, that a sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...
...each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow as an ox and one of the most obstinately loyal of men. He married his brother's fiancee (1866); and one day he crowned himself Tsar* and her Tsarina...
...royalty behind this shift in high politics. Moreover here is sketched quietly and surely the story of Gregory Novihh, the "man of god" who was nicknamed Rasputin ("The Debauchee") and who perhaps "caused" as much as anyone the fall of the Romanovs. His power over the Tsar and Tsarina was due to the fact that their only son, Alexis, was a hemophile, bled profusely at the navel on the slightest provocation. Doctors were powerless to stop the bleeding; but Rasputin contrived to do so, by what means will per haps never be known. He was too clever to show...