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Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
Born to a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in the Tobolsk governorate (now Tyumen Oblast), Rasputin had a religious conversion experience after taking a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897. He has been described as a monk or as a strannik (wanderer, or pilgrim), though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. After traveling to St. Petersburg, either in 1903 or the winter of 1904–05, Rasputin captivated some church and social leaders. He became a society figure, and met the Tsar in November 1905.
In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for Alexei, the Tsar and his wife Alexandra's only son, who suffered from hemophilia. At court, he was a divisive figure, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan. The high point of Rasputin's power was in 1915, when Nicholas II left St. Petersburg to oversee Russian armies fighting World War I, increasing both Alexandra and Rasputin's influence. As Russian defeats in the war mounted, however, both Rasputin and Alexandra became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative noblemen who opposed his influence over Alexandra and the Tsar.
Historians often suggest that Rasputin's terrible reputation helped discredit the tsarist government, and thus helped precipitate the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty, which happened a few weeks after he was assassinated. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on hearsay and rumor.
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Grigori Rasputin, in fullGrigori Yefimovich Rasputin, Grigori also spelled Grigory, original name Grigori Yefimovich Novykh, (born January 22 [January 10, Old Style], 1869, Pokrovskoye, near Tyumen, Siberia, Russian Empire—died December 30 [December 17, Old Style], 1916, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg, Russia]), Siberian peasant and mystic whose ability to improve the condition of Aleksey Nikolayevich, the hemophiliac heir to the Russian throne, made him an influential favourite at the court of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra.
Grigori Rasputin remained illiterate, and his reputation for licentiousness earned him the surname Rasputin, Russian for “debauched one.” He evidently underwent a religious conversion at age 18, and eventually he went to the monastery at Verkhoture, where he was introduced to the Khlysty. Rasputin perverted Khlysty beliefs into the doctrine that one was nearest God when feeling “holy passionlessness” and that the best way to reach such a state was through the sexual exhaustion that came after prolonged debauchery. Rasputin did not become a monk. He returned to Pokrovskoye, and at age 19 married Proskovya Fyodorovna Dubrovina, who later bore him four children. Marriage did not settle Rasputin. He left home and wandered to Mount Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem, living off the peasants’ donations and gaining a reputation as a starets (self-proclaimed holy man) with the ability to heal the sick and predict the future.
Rasputin’s wanderings took him to St. Petersburg (1903), where he was welcomed by Theophan, inspector of the religious Academy of St. Petersburg, and Hermogen, bishop of Saratov. The court circles of St. Petersburg at that time were entertaining themselves by delving into mysticism and the occult, so Rasputin—a filthy, unkempt wanderer with brilliant eyes and allegedly extraordinary healing talents—was warmly welcomed. In 1905 Rasputin was introduced to the royal family, and in 1908 he was summoned to the palace of Nicholas and Alexandra during one of their hemophiliac son’s bleeding episodes. Rasputin succeeded in easing the boy’s suffering (probably by his hypnotic powers) and, upon leaving the palace, warned the parents that the destiny of both the child and the dynasty were irrevocably linked to him, thereby setting in motion a decade of Rasputin’s powerful influence on the imperial family and affairs of state.
In the presence of the royal family, Rasputin consistently maintained the posture of a humble and holy peasant. Outside court, however, he soon fell into his former licentious habits. Preaching that physical contact with his own person had a purifying and healing effect, he acquired mistresses and attempted to seduce many other women. When accounts of Rasputin’s conduct reached the ears of Nicholas, the tsar refused to believe that he was anything other than a holy man, and Rasputin’s accusers found themselves transferred to remote regions of the empire or entirely removed from their positions of influence.
By 1911 Rasputin’s behaviour had become a general scandal. The prime minister, P.A. Stolypin, sent the tsar a report on Rasputin’s misdeeds. As a result, the tsar expelled Rasputin, but Alexandra had him returned within a matter of months. Nicholas, anxious not to displease his wife or endanger his son, upon whom Rasputin had an obviously beneficial effect, chose to ignore further allegations of wrongdoing.
Rasputin reached the pinnacle of his power at the Russian court after 1915. During World War I, Nicholas II took personal command of his forces (September 1915) and went to the troops on the front, leaving Alexandra in charge of Russia’s internal affairs, while Rasputin served as her personal advisor. Rasputin’s influence ranged from the appointment of church officials to the selection of cabinet ministers (often incompetent opportunists), and he occasionally intervened in military matters to Russia’s detriment. Though supporting no particular political group, Rasputin was a strong opponent of anyone opposing the autocracy or himself.
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Пасхальное богослужение 2014 года в г. Ишим. Easter service in 2014 in Ishim, Russia.
Пасхальное богослужение 2014 года у никольской церкви г.Ишим тюменской области. Без редакции.
Easter service in 2014 at St. Nicholas Church Ishim Tyumen Region. Without editing.
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Pilgrimage in Russia. Interview of the head of pilgrim service
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TV program of an Orthodox channel discusses the topic of contemporary pilgrimage with the head of a pilgrim agency Mother Olga.
Host: (………) Pilgrimage exists since the first ages of Christianity, and today each Orthodox believer considers his duty to spend his holiday on a pilgrimage, at a sacred place. Is pilgrimage a tribute to tradition or the need of the soul?
Mother Olga: I think it is the need of the soul because any travel not only pilgrimage is hard work. A person should leave his usual environment, should go… by bus or any, so it is hard work. I’ve never met anybody who went on a pilgrimage as a tribute to fashion. Maybe it can be at the beginning, but then… no.
Host: So it is the need of the soul.
Mother Olga: Or maybe out of some interest. Many people go not because of their faith. They may go out of some interest to culture, to see new places, but in the end it is more the need of the soul.
Host: What differs pilgrimage from tourism? They both seem to be visits to new places.
Mother Olga: Pilgrimage is completely different from tourism. Why? Because a tourist as a rule wants… what? Maximum to see a new place and to have a rest. It’s completely different on a pilgrimage. Here a person seeks some usefulness for his soul rather than his body. And it is.. you know.. a trial. A person tests himself and tries to fit correspond to the place where he comes to. As Saint Fathers say, a person should return from a pilgrimage renewed, with a feeling of repentance. It is an ideal aim of the pilgrimage when we come back and see our drawbacks, see something new in ourselves.
Pilgrim A: Solovki touched me because my grandfather suffered as many prisoners who were there. Certainly, for me it's a sorrowful, sad place. But at the same time a spiritual and bright place because this all is reviving, the memory is reviving, and people, certainly, go there.
Pilgrim B: The blessing of the holy place … It strengthened me so much, and everything I read before became so close to me. Especially a conversation with monk Sebastian strengthened and lightenedilluminated all of us and me in particular… It’s not fearful to live anymore. For this end we go to sacred places.
Pilgrim C: Certainly, travels with our parish and favourite Father knit parishioners together. Common prayer, and the travel, it is unforgettable.
Pilgrim D: I have a feeling that I’m happy.
Father Andrew: Pilgrimage is a meeting. I’d point at three moments. It’s a meeting with saints or a saint, a meeting with yourself and a meeting with other people. We concentrate, we tuneadjust ourselves to the spiritual, we are ready to suffer from discomfort, we read prayers gravely, we stand on our knees, make bows, we pray gravely as in our everyday life we don’t pray. We reach some heights, heights of our soul. It’s important that we know ourselves through having a rough time on a pilgrimage. It’s necessary but though it we grow. In our soul we discover our best.
The Life And Death Of Russian Mystic Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин; IPA: [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn]; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian peasant, mystical faith healer and a trusted friend to the family of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. He became an influential figure in Saint Petersburg, especially after August 1915 when Nicholas took command of the army at the front.
There is much uncertainty over Rasputin's life and the degree of influence he exerted over the shy and irresolute Tsar and the strong-willed Alexandra Feodorovna, his wife. Accounts are often based on dubious memoirs, hearsay and legend. While his influence and position may have been exaggerated—he had become synonymous with power, debauchery and lust—historians agree that his presence played a significant role in the increasing unpopularity of the Imperial couple.
Rasputin is connected with the downfall of the Russian Monarchy; his disappearance would strengthen the throne. Rasputin was killed as he was seen by both the left and right to be the root cause of Russia's despair during World War I.
Grigori, Grigory or Grigorii Rasputin was born the son of a well-to-do peasant and coachdriver in the small village of Pokrovskoye, in the Tobolsk Governorate (now Yarkovsky District in the Tyumen Oblast) in the immense West Siberian Plain. The parish register contains the following entry for 9 January 1869 [O.S.]: In the village of Pokrovskoye, in the family of the peasant Yefim Yakovlevich Rasputin and his wife, both Orthodox, was born a son, Grigory. The next day he was baptized and named after St. Gregory of Nyssa, whose feast day is on 10 January.
Grigori was the fifth of nine children. Only two survived—Grigori and his sister Feodosiya. He never attended school; according to the census of 1897 almost everybody in the village was illiterate. In Pokrovskoye, the young Rasputin was regarded as an outsider, but one endowed with mysterious gifts. His limbs jerked, he shuffled his feet and always kept his hands occupied. Despite physical tics, he commanded attention. The little that is known about his childhood was passed down by his daughter Maria, but all her memoirs are regarded as unreliable.
On 2 February 1887 Rasputin married Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina (1866-1936), and together the couple had three children: Dmitri, Matryona and Varvara; two earlier sons died young. In 1892 Rasputin abruptly left his village, his wife, children and parents. He spent several months in a monastery in Verkhoturye; Spiridovich suggested after the death of a child, but the monastery was enlarged in those years to receive more pilgrims. Outside the monastery lived a hermit by the name of Brother Makary. Makary had a strong influence on Rasputin, which led to Grigori's giving up drinking and eating meat. When he arrived home he had become a zealous convert.
Turn to religious life
Rasputin's claimed vision of Our Lady of Kazan turned him towards the life of a religious mystic. Around 1893 he travelled to Mount Athos, but left shocked and profoundly disillusioned, as he told Makary.
By 1900 Rasputin was identified as a strannik, a religious wanderer, although he always went home to help his family with sowing and the harvest. He was regarded as a starets (elder) or a yurodiviy (holy fool) by his followers. Rasputin did not consider himself to be a starets, who were usually older and lived in seclusion and silence. According to Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden he was a starets in making.
According to Lili Dehn, Rasputin spoke an almost incomprehensible Siberian dialect. According to Andrei Amalrik, Rasputin never produced a clear and understandable sentence. Always something was missing: the subject, the predicate or both. It is obvious the strannik seldom preached or spoke in public, but in 1902 private gatherings in his house had to be disbanded. In 1903 Rasputin spent some time in Kiev, where he visited the Monastery of the Caves. In Kazan he attracted the attention of the bishop and members of the upper class. Rasputin then travelled to the capital to meet with John of Kronstadt and acquire donations for the construction of the village church. Pierre Gilliard writes that Rasputin arrived in 1905, Nelipa thinks it was in autumn 1904, Iliodor believed it was as early as December 1903. He carried an introduction to Ivan Stragorodsky, the rector of the theological faculty. Rasputin stayed at Alexander Nevsky Lavra; there he met with Hermogenes. Theophanes of Poltava who was amazed by his tenacious memory and psychological perspicacity offered Rasputin to live in his apartment. Rasputin was invited by Milica of Montenegro and her sister Anastasia, who were interested in Persian mysticism, spiritism and occultism. On 1 November 1905 (O.S.) Milica presented Rasputin to Tsar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra.
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Lena from Moscow in Novosibirsk
Walking with Lena, showing a couple of spots still not filmed: the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (the red church) and St. Nicholas church (the geographical center of Russia)
Expats moved to Russia to inspire and motivate students | motivational video for teachers
Erika and David’s Russian story is truly inspiring. They teach students to think about the world from a different perspective; to improve critical thinking and team experiences, while finding a way to consolidate modern educational methods and strengths of the current system. Accordingly, students are inspired to believe in themselves, improve study motivation and understand that their opinions and ideas matter and have an actual impact.
Moreover, Erika and David support the community of expatriates in the university and actively help promote it. It’s a necessary task, because Russia’s traditional education system, culture and seemingly harsh climate can be clearly awkward for some foreigners.
This special consideration and motivation for success allows them to solve such different issues effectively. Their approach is: “If you’re going to study and you’re planning to have an intensive intellectual life, you need more isolation.”
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Orthodox Russia - Day of National Unity
The chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda, spoke about the upcoming exhibition-forum Orthodox Russia - Day of National Unity. The Romanovs, which will be held from November 4 to 12 in Moscow. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, on November 4, 2013, at the Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, the exhibition forum Orthodox Russia - Day of National Unity. The Romanovs will be opened. The exhibition is dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty and will become one of the central events in celebration of this event in Russia . During the reign of the Romanov dynasty, Russia experienced great events: the accession of Siberia and the Far East, building a new capital of St. Petersburg, the victory over Napoleon, the abolition of serfdom, the industrial revolution, and more. The country became an empire - one of the leading world powers. At this time, successful Arctic research was carried out, the Northern Sea Route was opened, and the greatest geographical discovery of Antarctica was made. There was a flowering of culture, named the Golden Age in Russian history: the world got to know Russian literature, music, painting, theatre and ballet. These and many other events, as well as the history of the life and reign of each monarch of the Romanov dynasty, will be presented in two dozen halls of the main exhibition space of the country. The central idea of the exhibition is gratitude to prominent figures of the Romanov dynasty and their associates for their contribution to strengthening Russian statehood.
Saint Petersburg | Wikipedia audio article
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Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk] (listen)) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: Петрогра́д, IPA: [pʲɪtrɐˈgrat]), on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: Ленингра́д, IPA: [lʲɪnʲɪnˈgrat]), and on 1 October 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.
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Тобольск / Tobolsk - 1900s
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Tobolsk
Tobolsk is the historic capital of Siberia and is situated on the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers.
The city was founded by Cossacks in 1585–1586 during the first Russian advance into Siberia, becoming the seat of the Viceroy of Siberia and prospered with trade with China and Bukhara. However, in the 1890s when the Trans-Siberian railway bypassed the town, its importance quickly faded. Following the Revolution of 1917, Emperor Nicholas II and his family were housed here, for a short time, in the former house of the Governor-General.
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Who was Rasputin | Life and Death of the Russian Mad Monk | The Grigori Rasputin Story
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian spiritualist and self-announced sacred man who become a close acquaintence with the group of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of Russia, and increased significant impact in late majestic Russia.
Destined to a laborer family in the Siberian town of Pokrovskoye, Tyumen Oblast, Rasputin had a religious transformation encounter subsequent to taking a journey to a cloister in 1897. He has been depicted as a priest or as a strannik (drifter, or explorer), however he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. Subsequent to venturing out to St. Petersburg, either in 1903 or the winter of 1904– 5, Rasputin enthralled some congregation and social pioneers. He turned into a general public figure, and met the Tsar in November 1905.
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. Born to a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, Rasputin had a religious conversion experience after taking a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897. He has been described as a monk or as a strannik , though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. After traveling to St. Petersburg, either in 1903 or the winter of 1904–5, Rasputin captivated some church and social leaders. He became a society figure, and met the Tsar in November 1905. In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for the Tsar and his wife Alexandra's son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia and was Nicholas' only heir . At court, he was a divisive figure, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan. The high point of R...
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