GRIGORY YEFIMOVICH RASPUTIN was a man from Siberia who became an influential personality in the Russian empire during the Romanovs time. This Victorian era is when many people not only in Siberia believes in the ultimate power of witchcraft and religion. At this time in Russia Christian Orthodox is believed to be the main religion that many people believed in Russia at that time. Thus, the Empire of Russia at that time is significantly aware that religion is a way to rally people to the fold of the Empire. Moreover, this Victorian era many men who are clever enough to plot a cunning myth and can deceive a number of congregation will have a possibility to become a healer like Rasputin who can heal the sick and make a virgin woman pregnant. Not only in Russia but also in the American West when some people with vast lands at that time and have the capacity to rally people and of course people also at that time are believed to be religious fanatics, spiritual healers at this time are more effective and popular that the scientific medical doctors seldom have patients.
Thus, at this time many people in US just
kneel down in their farm land and pretend that they’ve seen a vision from the
lord then they can make their home church in their farmland and protect their
land properties with the congregation’s presence. During this time, land reforms are starting to
be imposed by the US government to build public highways and railroads. Thus,
these Rasputin like people are very clever to use the hysteria of the people in
terms of religion and witchcraft during the time of the Victorian era. If you like to watch the vampire movies like
Vanhelsing the era at this time is the time when Rasputin is luring the minds of the people of Russia and the Empire itself.
Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was born in Siberia, if you can just imagine
the location of Siberia basing from the map of Russia you can imagine that
Siberia is outskirt of the capital of Russia. This place is the place where
many thieves and all kinds of street smart illegal business are to be
seen. Siberia is also a vast area of land
where you need to pass this area if you are to travel going Central Asia like
the travel of Marco Polo.
The Wild Life
of Siberia where you can find the original breeds of the Siberian Husky portrays
the wild personality of Rasputin and a heart cold as the weather of the snowy
Siberia. The life of Rasputin in Siberia
portrays a life of a thief. Many people from Siberia have known him as a Horse
thief. He is very good in getting the
horses of the many neighborhood in Siberia and selling them to the black market
in the road leading to the silk road of central asia. Forgive me for the many academic readers I
have in this blog, but just to note that at this time religion and spirituality
is everything during the Victorian era.
Thus, in my opinion Rasputin is very clever to use the illusive beliefs
of the many people of Siberia that in an instant he received the mighty vision
from God and he became a righteous holy man in an unbelievable myth. But to the people in Siberia he is a God sent
man and a renewed man from a horse thief to a holy servant of God. While reading the text alone I was laughing
myself to think that many people also at this time in the US are performing
also this kind of religious drama to gather good number of congregation. Thus Rasputin in Siberia was so successful in
creating a belief that he is a religious man and can create many miracles in
the sight of the Siberian people. Thus,
he earned respect not only respect from the people of Siberia but also the
capital and the empire itself of Russia.
His dark fairy tale with the empire of Russia started as a peasant in
Siberia but became an influence to the Tsar of Russia. During 1916 when he is
still an evil horse thief in Siberia he recognize no bounds in terms of his
sexual drive and being a drunken satyr.
He raped the women and will say “God Bless you”.
At this point in time, while reading I can
remember in my country’s (Philippines) situation in terms of this small scale
religions that committed cases like Rasputin.
Many of their Choir members (Singer in the Church) are pregnant from
nowhere, maybe pregnant by the holy spirit? but only to find out that the
pastor is the father of the bustard child.
Many cases, in US as well that I mentioned in my first paragraph. But during the time of Rasputin the people of
Siberia are all shouting Ra Ra Ra Rasputin the holy man of God. The “mad monk” or the “holy devil” is gaining
the peoples religious and political sympathy. The “mad monk” or the “holy devil”
that the people called him has originated from the famous Russian Priest Iliodor
that once his famous friend and later his best enemy. Later in the story of the life of Rasputin
his being religious and his background as a horse thief became a complicated scene in the sight of the empire. At
this point in time Rasputin wants to divide and conquer the Monarch of Russia
at that time. Come to think of it that
he penetrated the beliefs and the religious affairs to some of the members of the
empire. At that point Russia and the
empire itself did not know that Rasputin is working in a larger scale war
against the monarch. The hostile forces intent on destroying not only the
Romanovs Dynasty, but holy Russia itself. Rasputin the devil becomes Rasputin the Saint. The people in Russia believe in him but not
knowing that he is selling Russia to the communist.
During the Romanovs time 1917 Rasputin became
an adviser to the dynasty but he was able to divide and conquer according to
his deceiving holy personality with a mixture of satanic practices. “Rasputin’s story is a tragedy, and not just that
of one man but of an entire nation, for in his life with its complicated
struggles about faith and morality, about pleasure and sin, about tradition and
change, about duty and power, and their limits and in his bloody, violent end,
we can discern the story of Russia itself in the early twentieth century. Rasputin was neither a devil nor a saint, but
this made him no less remarkable and his life no less important to the twilight
of tsarist Russia.” His origins in Siberia where his parents are to slaughter
and eat their children according to the book of Douglas Smith. Some said in the tale of Siberia that people
of Siberia had no heads; their eyes were located in their chests, their mouths
between their shoulders. But da… only to find out that all these religious façade
and deceiving acts like Rasputin is the work of the Communist to topple the
empire of Russia at that time. I don’t
know why the communist today are still aspiring to topple down monarchs that
come to think of it Communism is already decaying according to Fukuyama. In an academic point of view communism is not
in the future of politics and governance anymore according to Fukuyama. To their
desperation they façade their communist ideology not by religion like Rasputin
but by democracy itself. Thus, Rasputin
at that time had failed to impose his communist agenda. During that time as well the famous poet Fyodor
Dostoevsky who wrote “The Brothers Karamazov” and his son Izosim is in the highlight
of the Russian society at that time, their influence in the poetry and the
whole academic society specifically arts in Russia is incomparable to the
religious bluff of Rasputin. But in his later days Rasputin was killed without honor
(Dec. 30, 1916 at the home of Felix Yusupov) knowing that his greed to
overthrow the empire of Russia leave the history of Rasputin as the Dark Tail
of the Holy Devil. He was killed by a
group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov, the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich,
and the right-wing politician Vladimir Purishkevich.
COMMUNIST’s ENVY TO THE EMPIRE OF RUSSIA:
In an academic point of view Fukuyama narratively and
emphatically portrays why the communist is also taking advantage like the case
and the history of Rasputin. In the
first book of Fukuyama “the origins of political order” suggest that in the
evolution of governance the influence of religion towards the state somewhere
in the year 17-1900 is so strong in the medieval period. Thus, Rasputin is so cleaver to cloak his communist
ideology with the religious practices he is doing to the people of Siberia and
the empire of Russia. But how Russia is
being admired during the Romanovs era is not the same anymore when the Lenin
communist ideology loom the whole of Russia.
But come to think of it that the dark story of Rasputin compares the two
side of Russia between the well respected and elegant Tsarist Russia and the
failure of communism until the complete end of communism during the time of
Mikhail Gorbachev 1993. Until today
Russia suffers the dark picture like the holy devil Rasputin in world’s
perspective as the communist Russia. The
Empire of the Romanovs are the stories when Russia is still in its golden days
but with the shift of communism from the Romanovs, Rasputin like character of
Russia reveals the downturn of the elegant and powerful Russia. Communist
Russia during the cold war did not succeed until the fall of the communist
Russia during the term of Mikhail Gorbachev 1993. Many historian and academician of today are
still studying why the change of elegant dynasty of the Romanovs was changed to
communism that in fact communism did not succeeded to this date. Do you think
from the cultural perspective of Russia they need more of an empire like type
of governance compared to the failed communism they have last 1993? What is the
future of Russia’s governance after the failed communism?.... Do you think Communism is the biggest failure of governance and politics in the world history?
If communism is a failure why not try the Elton John like Freedom...
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