On This Day November 1

The Russian mystic Rasputin first met Tsar Nicholas II on November 1, 1905, at the Peterhof Palace. The Tsar recorded the event in his diary, writing that he and his wife Alexandra had "made the acquaintance of a man of God - Grigory, from Tobolsk province." By late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for the royal family's son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia.

Alexandra Feodorovna with her children, Rasputin and the nurse (1908)

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