However he also gained a reputation as a healer, able to perform amazing feats and miracles. Rasputin came to the attention of the royal family. In April , Alexandra called on him to heal her only son, the Tsarevich Alexis.
He was suffering from painful bleeding as a result of an injury. It was not publicly known but Alexis suffered from the blood disease haemophilia. After Alexis recovered, Tsarina Alexandra became convinced that Rasputin could control the young boy's illness. While there is still debate over the nature of his powers over the health of Alexis, it is clear that his influence over the Tsarina was considerable. He advised her on appointments to the government, interfered in important decisions.
He could do no wrong in the eyes of the Tsarina. Excuses were always made for his excessive and antisocial behaviour. To the Russian people, Rasputin symbolised everything that was wrong with imperial government. The court and the royal family became objects of ridicule, to be despised. Rasputin's murder by royalists at the end of , came too late to undo the damage he had caused.
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The charges were obviously an attempt by the United States Now she wrote to her husband in English, their epistolary language at least once a day, every day he was away. The czar settled into a comfortable routine at Mogilev. Every evening he received accounts from the front. By that time, millions of Russians had been killed and gravely wounded in the fighting. The czar was persuaded that the way to sustain Russia was not to tackle the work needed to modernize and generally professionalize the army, nor try to learn strategy, nor explore matters crying out for sound decisions.
His conception of those elements revealed the baseness of his political thinking. Kind , courteous, gentlemanly, frequently nervous, the shy and faintly feminine figure, as he appeared to one general, was never known to raise his voice, let alone lose his temper.
The soft-spoken ruler with his supreme devotion to his beautiful family seemed anything but a tyrant. Not that the czar was stupid. The czar much enjoyed the reviews. Truly excellent! The French observer who reported the affair was understandably amazed. His sedulous, upright chief of staff, General Alexeyev, tried to avoid the social gatherings. Knowing that, Alexeyev took to informing Nicholas only about matters that had already been resolved.
Visiting hospitals, he bore huge supplies of medals for the heavily wounded, on whom he believed he made a stunning impression. General Denikin observed, to the contrary, that the decorated men were left with little to tell their comrades. Taken in the company he liked, the meals were washed down by copious vodka and wine, although his own drinking was sparing. That, he believed, was proof that he had been right to assume supreme command.
Trouble was indeed hurtling toward the regime. His fondness for non-combatant military ways made him happy to be at Stavka, as did its refuge from decision-making. Reasonable reform would have given able military leaders the ability to make and execute rational decisions. His adoring wife continued thinking for him.
The German-born Alexandra was not a traitor as slanderous sheets had begun suggesting. Apart from her relationship with Rasputin, she was guilty of few of the unusual scandals described by the growing portion of the press that sought to blacken the monarchy. When the czarina visited Mogilev the generals ate in guarded silence and feared to enter the neighboring room to which she retired after the meal.
These men could never provide him with the advice and counsel he needed as Russia passed through the most critical moment in her history. A fourth should be the next successor to command of another brigade.
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