Grigori Rasputin - An Infamous Murder - Russian History - Extra History - Part 4
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Things are rapidly growing worse. While Rasputin recovers from the assassination attempt, Archduke Ferdinand has been shot. Rasputin writes to the Tzar to avoid getting involved in the Balkans to no avail. But this does not diminish Rasputin's influence. In fact, while Emperor Nicholas is away leading the army, Rasputin is one of the few close friends Empress Alexandra has left. Her popularity is quickly falling due to her own German heritage and the stress of being hounded by the press, police, and now assassins are causing Rasputin to crack.
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You are doing a great job. Keep it up.
“I feel fine.”- Rasputin
I don't need it, but thanks for offering
The most famous Russian is killed to Yankee Doodle? Considering how botched the assassin was they should have been playing Yakety Sax
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Despite the negative things about Rasputin, finding out he helped eased a child's suffering and even did everything to stop WWI definitely gives me a new respect for the historic figure.
It was common opinion in the lower classes, wich suffered from constant famines, dictatorship of landlords and poverty long before the war. WWI was just a final straw.
That's why majority of them fallowed the communists during Civil War.
Well cause rasputin have negative thing cause russian empire is aristocracy and he was a poor peasant with the top which give negative thing
@@Goran1138 That's not true though. After the february revolution they had an *election*. The bolsheviks lost. Peasants did not vote for the bolsheviks, the bolsheviks were mainly strong in the industrial towns, and even so, they were not as strong as the mensheviks.
@@GabrielNicho
You forgot, that peasants usually voted for social-revolutionary party (Esers), wich was exen more radical socialist party, then Russian Social-Democratic party (bolishevik wing). So, communist and leftists ideas was popular among common people, any rightists almost did not had any support among peasants.Bolsheviks just won leftists infighting during Civil War.
@@Goran1138 True and not true. Yes, the peasants voted for them (I never said anything else), but the reason they did so was only for the promises of land reform.
I mean, Rasputin wasn't wrong about WWI being the death of the Russian Empire.
He might not have been a genius, but he did know the Russian people. After all, he probably banged about 5-10% of them.
I wonder if rasputin ever heard of lenin or stalin, and if he did, what was his opinions about them.
Either way, it seems china cracked the code of how communism can "thrive"
He was a far cry from wrong. And not just about WWI. He was right about the end of the Romanov Dynasty in 1917... and the execution of Nicholas II and family in a dingy basement in Ekaterinburg a year later... 😞
@@davepeters4955 Probably. Or more than that, even. He was said to be a great lover, even if he was dirty, smelly, drank Madeira constantly, boasted about his connections to the royals, etc.
@@sanhcman666 If he did cross paths with them, he'd probably tell Nicholas II to hang them (Lenin's older brother had already been executed for revolutionary activity against Nicholas II's father, Alexander III).
You know it's bad when even a homeless wizard knows the war you're starting is a bad idea
@Zeno the Filipino I mean it is Nicholas, ofcourse he is an incompetent.
*Laughs in Diogenes*
I cannot believe you made a statement that applies to Rasputin and Gandalf.
You mean Gandalf the Gray
@@starfreakist Yes, yes I do.
There is an argument to be made that Rasputin is the luckiest man on earth, everything lined up for him to be this close to the tsar
and also one of the unluckiest, knowing some of Rasputin's narrative with the royal family was fabricated and mistrewn by what was the popular media at the time
Well if he was so lucky he wouldn't have died.
@@sarcastically_hopeful The Grim Reaper comes for us all regardless of luck.
until he was asasinated
Where the church encouraged him to deepen his prejuduces, the court pressured him to deepen his alcohol problems, the press demonized him, everyone ignored his better advice even if they took his worst advice, and then some of them killed him. O Fortuna!
“They didn’t quit, they wanted his head. So they shot him ‘till he was dead”
Oooh those Russians.
Ra ra Rasputin... Lover of the Russian Queen...
@@redlophix5670 Greatest humanity has ever seen
@@redlophix5670 He was a cat that really was gone
Wow, haven’t heard that little diddy in years
The fact that a drunken, sex-addicted peasant from Siberia was not only the smartest advisor but also kind of the most sympathetic person at the court (IMHO) tells you a lot about the state of the late Russian Empire and the intelligence of the Tsar.
And yet scandal wafted around him to the point where people loathed him with an undying passion. I think perhaps his most scandalous moments (that didn't involve his womanizing) was his boasting about his connections to the Imperial Family and a time where he went to a restaurant, opened his pants, and proceeded to wave his junk in the faces of diners.
Was a bit more complicated than that. About "smartest advisor," "most sympathetic person" and the questions of intelligence.
Rasputin may have been the world’s best cult leader but he truly cared about Russian
More then the Romanovs really did
autocrats care only for themselves.
I always just imagine the whole assassination ordeal as Screaming, Screaming and even more Screaming while a bunch of guys are running around panicking
I imagine it being like this.
"He didn't die!"
"Oh no no no! He knows! We're cursed!"
"Gun! Give me!"
_BAM!_
"Is he dead?!"
"I don't know?!"
"His clothes! Get someone else to wear for a diversion!"
"Ewww ewww eww! Dead smelly man!"
"Here's the gun!"
"No no no! That gun be cursed!"
"Wait wait he's waking u- Aaaah!"
"Aaaah! No no! Go away!"
"He's running away!"
"Shoot shoot him!"
_BAM!_
"Is he dead?!"
_BAM! BAM!_
"Ewww! Blood! Brains! Ewww!"
"What do we do?!"
"Dump him! Dump him!"
"Is he dead?!"
"He's still blinking!"
"Aaaaaaaaaah!!!"
"Run run! Pray! Oh god! Oh god!"
@@albertamalachi3560 this deserves a film adaptation
7:03 At that moment, I kinda wish they made a "The Death of Rasputin" story. Much like "The Death of Stalin", a dark political comedy. Just imagine if Rasputin's assassins go into a screaming panic over if the man is dead or not, maybe even missing their shots as they keep arguing if he's dead or not.
"Oh god, he's alive!!!" "Are you sure?! You shot him!" "He's getting up!!! Augh!!!" *they miss three shots(screaming the whole time) as Rasputin barley stumbles out the door*
😆
Lol I’d watch that
Man I’d love to see that
"HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD AN HOUR AGO!"
"YOU BOUGHT THE POISON! DON'T TRY AND BLAME ME FOR THIS!"
Ngl, would watch that while laughing out so loud
Is Huey Long on your guys' radar? He'd be a perfect topic to cover on this channel, take a look sometime!
Only if they bring up Kaiseriech.
I misread that as Howie Long and was trying to figure out what's so fascinating about a former football player
Ah yes, Louisiana Dictatoresque go brrr
The King Fish!
Who?
The assassination was a "Drunken, botch job, by aristocratic flunkies"? LMAO That actually sums it up quite nicely, I'll have to remember that one.
Rasputin, the "Holy Devil".
Sounds like a perfect name for a Jojo Stand.
*MENACING*
stand:holy devil
stand:user Rasputin
@@judicatorhurayth1927 3:30
more like Holy Diver
@@zEr-ne5ri lmao how does that fit so well
There are at least 4 things most people know about Rasputin: He loved women (to much) ,his death, Him and the Tsars wife, and his drinking
and that he could preach the bible like a preacher. full of ecstacy and fire.
Don't forget that one time where he got drunk at a restaurant to the point where he undid his pants and waved his junk in the faces of diners.
Rah rah Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen, now that's a cat who really was gone.
I don't think it's possible to love women "too much"
well clearly he is a DND monk
Deflect Missiles
Starting at 3rd Level, you can use your Reaction to deflect or catch the missile when you are hit by a ranged weapon Attack. When you do so, the damage you take from the Attack is reduced by 1d 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your monk level.
also Purity of Body - Purity of Body. At 10th level, your mastery of the ki flowing through you makes you immune to disease and poison.
he used deflect missiles to reduce the gunshot damage and purity of body to negate the poison.
or he was just attacked by incompetent idiots
Yeah, wouldn't be surprised if rasputin is now a lvl 18 undead Monk wandering the wastes of Siberia
@@litchqueenasenath5995 Ooh! Urban Fantasy campaign idea!
In an urban fantasy setting I wrote up for a GURPS campaign, Rasputin was a vampire. He survived and now lives in a California trailer park as an aged hippie named Greg with his granddaughter Annie...
According to Pathfinder, he's an 18th level oracle. Then again, he's depicted there as the actual son of Baba Yaga, so you might be closer to truth here.
The more the Seminal Tragedy gets talked about the more frustrated I get with how many opportunities we had to avoid ww1
World War I was when Western Civilization self-destructed. Only now, 100 years later, is it becoming obvious.
- how many opportunities we had to avoid ww1
You had none. Everything that happened happened in the only way it could happened.
@@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 If you took WWI by itself, you could make a fair case that Western Civilization, at least as it existed in June 1914, died because of it. But you always have to remember that the war's unfinished business led to an even bigger detonation in 1939, which completely flattened the place-- certainly in a moral and intellectual sense. It was like a fire in a warehouse setting off ammonium nitrate. Debris is still falling from that one, and it's not clear, even after 80 years, what the final shape of the new culture will be.
@@stretopovermind9680
That's not true though. The WW1 timeline is a big line of both coincidences and intentional fuckups.
@@stretopovermind9680 Well how about the fact Russia could have just not mobilized and changed the entire course of the 20th century
Well there is a one thing to note about the cyanide:
It reacts with sugar, and is no longer dangerous. Vine and cakes have sugar in them. This is one way, that Rasputin could have survived the possible poisoning and a reason why there wouldn't be a clear trace of poison to find.
The fact that this man not only really lived, but did so just a century ago, is so surreal to me.
There is a reason why Europeans often say that the 20th century began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended with the fall of the Soviet Union.
As an American, I believe that politically, it started with the Spanish-American War and ended on September 11th.
You know what is surreal for me?
That after romanovs fall, all leaders of the URSS somehow acted like a tsar.
In some cases, it worked (Who reach space first?) but in anothers (Stalin was worse than the failed austrian painter in terms of special prisons and its mortality rate)
Before today, I thought this guy was from the 1,600s
@@ronmaximilian6953 because you're Americocentric of course
@@tada-kun982 To be fair to Ron, I think he's saying that the "political 20th century" began and ended on those dates for the USA (and comparing that with the traditional 1914 - 1991 Eurocentric claim). I don't think he's making a claim that's meant to be valid for everyone everywhere.
Yusupov: "Oh right, the cyanide. The cyanide for Rasputin, the cyanide made specially to kill Rasputin, Rasputin's cyanide? That cyanide?"
Pavlovich: "Yes, that cyanide!"
Yusupov: "Gotcha covered."
For all the things they say about him, the one thing you must admit is that he did a supriseingly good job as adviser.
He just wasn't taken seriously, probably due to his background as a peasant, and partly because he was dirty, smelly, had a sex addiction, drank tons of Madeira, boasted nonstop about his connections to the royals, oh, and then there was that one time where he went to a restaurant, unzipped his pants, and waved his junk in the faces of diners.
If only Nicholas listened to him a bit More... Huh kind of weird to say that now.
Rasputin died how he lived; partyin' hard
Alternative Title: Homeless Wizard gets 3 new holes
Party went wrong
gets penetrated* three times.
Dude was quite literally a damage sponge
I feel like the plot by a group of inexperienced and incompetent conspirators to murder Rasputin, and failing over and over, could make for an excellent dark comedy
Honestly, Rasputin seems like a better Tsar than Nicholas. Maybe if he listened to the Siberian there would still be Tsar's today.
Nicholas was an inflexible fool who tons of chances to change the course of Russia but instead listened to no one and destroyed himself.
Probably, albeit in a constitutionalized form.
Can't say I'm sad to see the Tsardom go, but I do wish the Mensheviks or someone had taken power instead of the Bolsheviks. Instead, one dictatorship replaced another.
3:50 - 4:07
Monarchs being unpopular based on their German heritage, with rumors that they are being controlled? Call that a Antonia Marionette
Marie Antoinette, though she did speak German prior to going to France, was Austrian, not German. Germany didn't even become its own country until the Iron Chancellor arrived on the scene (and played a role in getting Kaiser Wilhelm I crowned in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles).
I'm pretty sure she was Austrian, though...
@@hans3000 She was, but Austrian was considered something along the lines of how Saxons are considered today. The thing that (may have) changed that outlook today, is that modern day citizens of Germany are called German
“See Borris, I told you he was the anti christ and you didn’t believe me!”
The whole murder of Rasputin story is a part of history where advanced critical thinking skills come into play. Personally, I tend to follow Yusupov's account (given that it's the most common one used), but then again, I could be (VERY) wrong about the tale of Yusupov and his cyanide-laced goodies.
For the next video, I'd enjoy a series about one of the following:
1) The French Revolution.
2) The Lincoln Assassination (complete with JWB's conspirators and the military tribunal that followed).
3) Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
4) The Inquisition (I have that song from History of the World, Part 1 playing in my brain as I type this).
5) Peter the Great (they did a series on Catherine; we need to know about Peter, too).
6) The Time of Troubles (and the beginning of the Romanov Dynasty itself).
7) A mini-video about the Ōtsu Incident.
Is there a way to contact Extra Credits to propose a idea for a video about some mythologies of the Sami people of Norway? We have some cool stories and creatures, and would love if there was a video about them
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@@nicolasdiaz1542 Thanks
I am learning so much! It really puts the things I've heard before in new light. Thank you for covering Rasputin
So he was a hippie doctor who hated the government and most people of high standing and he’s standing to be a doctor led him to get more prestige with the family through Alexandra and also gave advice that may have saved the empire.
*Oversimplified Ghost Rasputin intensifies*
I’m saddened to learn that there was no “SEXY PARTY” marquee in real life.
And the depressing period (and the giant ball of sad) that we call the USSR gets closer.
They don't go into it much in this series, but Nicholas II of Russia often tied with Lois XIV of France in people's mind for the title of most bumbling monarch in modern European history.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was recognized even as a teenager as a complete disaster from the start. He gave the Austro Hungarians Carte blanche to start a war then went on vacation with no contact or instructions.
Maybe autocrats and monarchies are a bad idea
I’m wondering what if rasputin WAS magic and foresaw the Revolution that joining the war would bring
Russia's war and loss to Japan almost led to revolution. It didn't take genius or magic to see the calamity. The problem was that these are in his advisors had relied upon Pan-Slavicism to try to keep the empire together after 1905. The logical result of this believe that Russia was the protector of all Slavic people's was that they had to take the side of the regicidal terrorist backing Serbs.
Then he is a good guy? I guess
I doubt he needed magic to see Russia was going to suffer significantly in a major war
I mean predictions are really just being able to guess the future based on people in power's personalities and motives as well as the general populace's feelings toward something. A lot of people believe Matt Groening can predict the future because of things said in the Simpsons and Futurama, but really he's just good at guessing things based on the political climate and such.
Dang I'm early
Facts
Fax
Same
Puruskevitch: Alexandra is a foriegn German in the Russian royal family
Catherine the Great: Am I nothing to you!
FYI, for future animations...
...the Yusupov palace is in urban Saint Petersburg. It is, and was, basically a townhouse on a canal. There are no open lands around it...just the streets and other buildings.
:)
When Hammer Horror did a film version of Rasputin in the 1960s, they had to get the script run past the last remaining assassin (still alive!), lest they get sued.
Its pretty funny that both Rasputin and Otto Von Bismarck said not to start or join a War in the Balkans and yet no one listened and it just amplified from there.
The animation at 6:21 was really good, can we please see more scenes like this?
7:04
When you kill someone in a Fallout game and the Bloody Mess perk activates for the first time in your life:
Great series about Rasputin. Got to commend you both on the great job.
If the assassination story is true then it is the very definition of “This man just won’t die!”
6:23 with that amazing animation!
The only version of Resputin's death I will accept is the Over simplified account
"so drunk [...] he vomited, passed out and wet himself" ... Yea, you mentioned already earlier that he was Russian.
One theory I’ve heard about the poison is that one of people at the assanation could have change their mind and switch the poison out with something else
I had heard baking the cakes could have detoxified the poison.
I heard that Rasputin developed an immunity to cyanide because he ingested tiny doses of it over the course of many years, but I could be wrong.
That's actually kind of disappointing, for me at least.
I always thought rescued and made for a great villain in works of fiction.
Oh well. As the old saying goes "don't believe everything you see in the moving pictures."
Welp imma go listen to the song for an hour now
“You either die a villain or you live long enough to see yourself become the hero.”
Wow that clown music just got really loud and spooky. Who knew a slide whistle could sound so menacing?
Coooooooool I love the video can you make video about the French revelation or WW2 please👍👍👍👍
French Revolution definitely! Odd thing is I share my birthday with one of the revolutionaries (and no, it's not Robespierre or Danton). I'll give you a few clues:
1) He was a Freemason (yes, Freemasonry was also practiced in 18th-century France).
2) He hung out with Benjamin Franklin (they were fellow Masons; they also were on a committee on the discussion of animal magnetism).
3) According to some sources, it was he who suggested that the Third Estate deputies meet in the tennis court.
Can you guess who he was?
I think Muisques de Lafayette
The main source of the "the British did it, or at least helped" is that the gun used may have been a Webley Revolver, which would have been hard to get in Russia at the time.... except via with British embassy.
Extra literature!!!!! Calling it rn!!!!
6:53 i love the expressions so much
Wooo Rasputin's death! Been waiting for this!
Great out-tro on this one.
Christopher Lee met PRINCE YUSUPOV and GRAND DUKE DMITRI PAVLOVICH, he would later in his career play Rasputin.
Maybe you guys should cover Saint Olga of Kiev. I found it very bloody and brutal.
They did in a series about the Vikings. Check it out.
its insane to me that rasputin was around during the first world war, i wish history class explained what was happening around the world at certain times instead of following each individual civilization through their whole timeline
Other thing about Yusupov's account is that it was his second version for his second memoir. His main source of income in exile in Paris was memoirs and he added further exaggerations to his second version so that it would sell again.
He and his wife were also the first people to sue a Hollywood studio for it's portrayal as them and that's why all films now have that 'coincidence' bit in the credits.
Rasputin: “Whatever you do, don’t go to war over the Balkans!”
Nicholas II: YEET
It's surreal watching this segment, calling back to the Seminole Tragedy, also from Extra History, and the recent video game Iron Harvest that makes Rasputin the head of FENRIS trying to take off Europe in a James-Bond/Spectre fashion
The hilarious thing I always find is that they lied about how tough he was to make him out to be a demon but all they did was make him a historical badass that everyone loves.
Rasputin actually survived and escaped to America. He settled in New York and adopted the psudonym Michael Malloy.
I'm surprised he tried to stop it, I thought he would welcome it.
Some believe that either one of the assassins had a change of heart and swapped out the poisons, or something in the cakes converted the poison into a harmless substance.
THAT'S SOCIETY TO THIS DAY
8:48
Awesome ending. Thank you
I do mean this with the kindest heart
But tell Matthew to please stop doing voices
It’s been a while, we’ve gotten a good sample, but he’s not good at it, and it just shatters the flow of the video having to listen to it
I'm enjoying this
5:15 I spy with my little eye a greek god of wine. ^^
Bacchus.
The autopsy found ice in his lungs proving that the final cause of death was drowning!
That animation of them finishing off raspution was great (the animation, not his death)
RIP Rasputin, u absolute legend
Am I the only one thinking that the Coen brothers should make a movie about Rasputin's murder? They're the perfect guys for the job.
A interesting detail,.the reason of why movie have a warning about how similarities with real persons or events is because a movie about Rasputin and his killer was made years later, and that movie say that the wife of the killer was rape by Rasputin, something that never happened, and that fact really cause problems to her and she sue the studio because of that
Nice vid.
My teacher believes that he actually was brought back to life I tried to convince her out of it but she was like nah
6:21 slick as hell
do one on King John II of Portugal
Is the narrator of Hiawatha and the Punic wars still around?
And nobody knew how the goat got onto the roof.
Imagine your russian zarr going to the front lines and he leaves a magic peasant and his german wife to govern the country while you are at war with germany
NOT good. Alexandra is already unpopular; with Germany and Russia being enemies, she's made to look even worse to the point where people accuse her of being a German spy. Add to that the fact that she's listening to The Dark One and, well... use your imagination.
IMO even if some of the rumors about Rasputin were true it doesn't matter. He consistently opposed war which I think makes him a overall positive good influence even if it didn't work. He also stood up for the peasants.
6:47 What's the character on the right supposed to be?
...AND SO THEY SHOT HIM 'TILL HE WAS DEAD!
6:53 the faces…
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Ra ra rasputin (seeing if people remember the song)
Lover of the russian queen
thumbnail: me and the bois when we make sound near horde of zombies in project zomboid
this was an interesting tale.
He tried to warn them, and all he got was death.
Can you something make to Hinterkaifeck (creepy Bavarian story) oder Maria theresia?
You dipped your toe into the Russian Revolutions (yea that is PLORAL) and yeah it is way more complicated all around. Like the Czar agreeing to political change and then ignoring those changes and going after his political enemies. I recommend the Revolutions podcast for good background on why the Czar fell. And Rasputin - well everyone has a idea about him.
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago.
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
To be honest real world history is just filled with super depressing stories and over the top brutality, showing us the worst examples of humanity
What about Benigno Ramos? A story about a colaborator with the axis powers who started with good intentions?
3:46 Wilhelm 2 looks a little bit to old
Didn't the official coroner's report list Rasputin's cause of death as drowning?
Noice keep up the work